The title should probably be “Connie’s random thoughts”. My goal today was to get my email under control & reply to comments on this blog. I did get a fair amount done, but certainly am not finished.

Organizing – In the past 10 years I’ve learned the value of purging & getting organized before starting a new project. Working at a library taught me the value of having some sets of operating standards. It didn’t take me long to realize that I could tolerate only so much chaos on my desk. At home we also have a standard for our living areas.

In the past two weeks though, my email had gotten out of hand. I must be more careful moving forward to keep ahead of it. I swear that being active in social networks is like spamming yourself! I could turn the alerts off, but I like getting them. Here are some things that I find helpful in dealing with my email:

  • respond immediately as much as possible
  • use Thunderbird & forward email to the main accounts that you reply from
  • set up folders that make sense to you & use filters to send regular mail into them
  • Copernicus is a cool app that searches my desktop – it’s a great timesaver when I’ve forgotten where I stashed something

Blogging – I am SO loving all this blogging! At first I was paralyzed by the concept of three. But each has their own perspective & there’s a bit of cross over of course. My sister helps out with the one on our site & my vision for the ACDSee blog is that more staff & evangelists will get involved. I posted some photos today at ACDSee’s blog.

I find writing very therapeutic so this is a great way to express myself. I look forward to getting a few blog posts written in advance. When I saw Jeremiah O’s explanation of that, it made total sense! And when I did it for awhile it worked great! I love how Twitter results in a number of links to respond to. And I look forward to returning to reading blogs on a regular basis.

Do you like my buttons below each post? My sister has been doing her magic again. She’s amazing!

How do you keep ahead of your email & blogging?