Comments on: Email Newsletters: Time Wasters or Valuable Information Sources?

By: jamesburns00

jamesburns00 — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:46:46 +0000

Do you know any technique to increase email productivity.

By: CoachMoore

CoachMoore — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:55:24 +0000

Measuring and noting the value of subscriptions is a great idea. To get even more from the exercise assign a 1-5 score as to the value. 5=I will change what I do because of this and I expect it to be very valuable, 1=My that’s nice to know and kind of interesting. Make your own scale. The point is that getting “one nice to know” bit of information is not enough reason to continue a subscription.
CM

By: goldcoaster

goldcoaster — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 05:23:37 +0000

I have subscribed to a few and I must say they are just a time waster. Sometimes they are interesting but still a time waster the same..

cheers,
http://goldcoaster.wordpress.com

By: Book Reader

Book Reader — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 13:07:02 +0000

There is even a more potentially damaging addiction out there: blogs and news feeds. We hardly ever stop to think about the amount of time it takes for us just to scan the headings. I periodically just have to do a very drastic cutting down of all the garbage I always manage to accumulate in my news aggregator.

I know it’s slightly off topic, but I think it’s just a different facet of the same phenomenon. It’s just the medium that changes.

Itzy–thanks for the most valuable personal productivity blog.

By: Silvia

Silvia — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 03:12:01 +0000

One thing that works for me is to check if I remember some good thing I learnt or found in a newsletter. If nothing comes to my mind, I just unsubscribe.

A tip from Adam Boettiger is to schedule the reading of newsletters on a specific day.

Another suggestion is to assign a number of newsletters one decides to follow.