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This is a 锟斤拷hairball锟斤拷 post you can ignore. However, this post does trace my thinking
about how to scale webmaster communication. Part of me wants to start answering
questions I get via email by stripping out the identifying information and then
replying with a blog post. Instead of one person getting a single reply, everybody
[...]
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*This is a 锟斤拷hairball锟斤拷 post you can ignore. However, this post does trace my thinking
about how to scale webmaster communication. Part of me wants to start answering
questions I get via email by stripping out the identifying information and then
replying with a blog post. Instead of one person getting a single reply, everybody
could see what the answer is.*
I spent most of the past week tackling my horrendous email backlog. At the start
of the weekend, I was just touching 500 unread emails. I got it down to 218 unread
emails and 264 total emails in my inbox. Of course, the ones that are left are the
harder messages. And out of those 264 emails, 167 are from outside Google.
A few weeks ago, I flew up to the Kirkland office for a couple days to catch up
with the Webmaster CentralWebmaster Central team. At some point, we were talking
about doing videos for webmasters. Someone said 锟斤拷Why don锟斤拷t we just grab a video
camera and see how many videos we can shoot in an hour?锟斤拷 So we did. We managed
to tape three pretty informative videos in about an hour, and that includes set-up/breakdown
time.
So now I锟斤拷m looking at these 150+ emails from outside Google, and I锟斤拷m pondering
about how much time I should spend on email compared to other things. Email is a
1:1 communication, so I could answer 10 emails and help roughly 10 people. Or in
the same amount of time, I could comment on a forum, start on a blog post, or plan
out another video that could benefit a lot more people. I did a series of about
15 videosseries of about 15 videos last year when my wife was out of town, and the
videos have been watched over 300K times and downloaded over 100K times.
So to make a long story short, I锟斤拷m trying to figure out how I should handle email
going forward. I锟斤拷ve been thinking about this for a whilethinking about this for
a while, but don锟斤拷t be offended if I don锟斤拷t reply to email as much going forward.
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锟介：cn.edu.lang.english
锟斤拷签: Personal,Productivity
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Webmaster Central
http://www.google.com/webmasters/
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series of about 15 videos
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/type/movies/
----
thinking about this for a while
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/changing-how-i-handle-emails/
----
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http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mattcutts/uJBW/~4/pW8F3Ndxisg
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This is a 锟斤拷hairball锟斤拷 post you can ignore. However, this post does trace my thinking
about how to scale webmaster communication. Part of me wants to start answering
questions I get via email by stripping out the identifying information and then
replying with a blog post. Instead of one person getting a single reply, everybody
[...]
=-=-{锟斤拷锟斤拷} =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
*This is a 锟斤拷hairball锟斤拷 post you can ignore. However, this post does trace my thinking
about how to scale webmaster communication. Part of me wants to start answering
questions I get via email by stripping out the identifying information and then
replying with a blog post. Instead of one person getting a single reply, everybody
could see what the answer is.*
I spent most of the past week tackling my horrendous email backlog. At the start
of the weekend, I was just touching 500 unread emails. I got it down to 218 unread
emails and 264 total emails in my inbox. Of course, the ones that are left are the
harder messages. And out of those 264 emails, 167 are from outside Google.
A few weeks ago, I flew up to the Kirkland office for a couple days to catch up
with the Webmaster CentralWebmaster Central team. At some point, we were talking
about doing videos for webmasters. Someone said 锟斤拷Why don锟斤拷t we just grab a video
camera and see how many videos we can shoot in an hour?锟斤拷 So we did. We managed
to tape three pretty informative videos in about an hour, and that includes set-up/breakdown
time.
So now I锟斤拷m looking at these 150+ emails from outside Google, and I锟斤拷m pondering
about how much time I should spend on email compared to other things. Email is a
1:1 communication, so I could answer 10 emails and help roughly 10 people. Or in
the same amount of time, I could comment on a forum, start on a blog post, or plan
out another video that could benefit a lot more people. I did a series of about
15 videosseries of about 15 videos last year when my wife was out of town, and the
videos have been watched over 300K times and downloaded over 100K times.
So to make a long story short, I锟斤拷m trying to figure out how I should handle email
going forward. I锟斤拷ve been thinking about this for a whilethinking about this for
a while, but don锟斤拷t be offended if I don锟斤拷t reply to email as much going forward.
-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-===---===-=--====-=
-=-{ =-= }-=-
锟介：cn.edu.lang.english
锟斤拷签: Personal,Productivity
=-={ -=- }=-=
**锟斤拷锟斤拷**锟斤拷
Webmaster Central
http://www.google.com/webmasters/
----
series of about 15 videos
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/type/movies/
----
thinking about this for a while
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/changing-how-i-handle-emails/
----
图片
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mattcutts/uJBW/~4/pW8F3Ndxisg
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锟斤拷锟竭ｏ拷 NewBlue < beyooo (at) GMail (dot) COM >
锟斤拷锟斤拷员锟斤拷锟斤拷锟斤拷99 < liuxing99 (at) GMail (dot) COM >
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