Isn't the ability to communicate with lots of people all at once great? No longer the need to envelope 50 letters and put them in the post - just a quick mailing list program. But that does mean that as well as getting through very quickly, you can really make a mess of things very quickly too.
At 9 o'clock, I received an email telling me that a "Speed Networking Dinner" this Wednesday is cancelled due to a lack of bookings. And that was followed at half past 9 by another email making no reference to the first one, and telling me that it's my last opportunity to book for the event.
Somewhere, someone's sitting in an office with a flood (or perhaps it's a trickle and that's the problem) of emails, all of which now need individual attention, filling them in on what's happening. And it leaves all the other hundreds of members of the group who have received the emails wondering at the organisation's organisation.
(written 2006-01-16, updated 2006-06-09)
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