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The war between those who believe that mass online communication ought to be driven by "Pull" technology, and those who favor "Push", seems to have been won by the latter group. With the increasing effectiveness of customer analysis by savvy online businesses, and the widespread use of cheap groupmail programs, the pressure to reduce the number (and increase the accuracy) of emails - has dissipated. While we may still have signed up for too many folks trying to convince us to do something, we're finding ways to manage the total volume received.
Like many who use an ISP email to communicate with friends involved with me in local causes and community efforts, I have established email groups with 50-100 members in each. Over the years, I have found quite a few friends who share an interest in more than one of these topics. But for the most part, they are separate groups consisting of members whose emails were recruited from emails on the topics they have sent to me. Low income housing development, environmental and coastal protection, city and county civic engagement, health care services, educational improvement, park and recreation resources, and low income legal services are examples.
While my use of personal group email helps me connect many people on a variety of subjects, it is all dependent on, and serving, my interests. I build many of the content from the contributions of others, and I encourage submissions. But my long overseas vacations slow it down, and I'm sure my own biases restrict its scope and orientation.
And while it has the freedom to include anyone with an email who hasn't requested I take them out of the group, I has the weakness of losing the content in email archive graveyards. I try to overcome that by posting the content on Google blogs for each topic, and including links to the posts in my emails.
The war between those who believe that mass online communication ought to be driven by "Pull" technology, and those who favor "Push", seems to have been won by the latter group. With the increasing effectiveness of customer analysis by savvy online businesses, and the widespread use of cheap groupmail programs, the pressure to reduce the number (and increase the accuracy) of emails - has dissipated. While we may still have signed up for too many folks trying to convince us to do something, we're finding ways to manage the total volume received.
Like many who use an ISP email to communicate with friends involved with me in local causes and community efforts, I have established email groups with 50-100 members in each. Over the years, I have found quite a few friends who share an interest in more than one of these topics. But for the most part, they are separate groups consisting of members whose emails were recruited from emails on the topics they have sent to me. Low income housing development, environmental and coastal protection, city and county civic engagement, health care services, educational improvement, park and recreation resources, and low income legal services are examples.
While my use of personal group email helps me connect many people on a variety of subjects, it is all dependent on, and serving, my interests. I build many of the content from the contributions of others, and I encourage submissions. But my long overseas vacations slow it down, and I'm sure my own biases restrict its scope and orientation.
And while it has the freedom to include anyone with an email who hasn't requested I take them out of the group, I has the weakness of losing the content in email archive graveyards. I try to overcome that by posting the content on Google blogs for each topic, and including links to the posts in my emails.
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