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Current Awareness Bulletin (CAB)

14th April 2010

Dear Member,

Am I getting on your nerves? Have you heard far too much from me recently? Probably. Even my wife would recommend I’m best in small doses with largish gaps in between. Grand Canyon size actually.

Even if you are happy enough with me rambling on every Wednesday – are you comfortable with the amount of emails you receive from your Institute every week? We like to keep you involved with all the latest forum news and regional events via as many means as possible.

But that does mean we generate a fair old amount of email traffic.

So the big question is, are you happy with our regular emails or would you prefer it if they were consolidated a little?

It’s election season so we thought we’d put democracy in action and let you have a vote on it. Click here for your say. Please do press the link and pitch in as we want your views and – unlike the General Election – this vote may actually change something!

Here’s some food for thought: the volume of world email has increased by 47% during the last 12 months. That means, and I kid you not, half of all European workers are now having to spend 2 hours a day responding to email (or 1 day a week). So for each day you are out of the office you can gain 2 hours of emails to review. (Survey by Symantec).

I get 80 to 100 emails a day. I read the ones from our Chief Executive and our new Chief Operating Officer, Donna Cresswell, first, of course. Because they normally tell me how much trouble I’m in on any particular given day.

Then I wade my way through the rest, putting a little red blob by the other ones likely to go nuclear unless I get on and actually do something about them. I act on about half of those, and then run out of time.............more

David Jinks Editor
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