I don’t know about you but the number of communication channels we seem to be faced with these days is growing way too fast.  This picture reflects my situation :-)

credits: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fdrubio1977/386994294/

E-mail, phone calls, voice mails, tweets  , blog posts and comments, RSS feeds, delicious tags, diigo tagging, drop by meetings, …  how to keep up?  I haven’t posted to my blog since September ‘08!  Seriously!  I just never seem to find the time to reflect and write – too many other “priorities”. 

Twitter is sure a curiosity isn’t it.  I know it has evolved into a kind-of real-time news channel for your personal network or the world at large.  I haven’t figured out yet how to best manage the noise factor I see in twitter so that I can easily / efficiently get to the stuff I care about.  I get it though that this channel is useful to connect with people you wouldn’t normally see or know in the physical world.  It’s a means to expand your personal network beyond geography.  Oh, I just switched from twirl to tweetdeck  – figured I’d better get with the program… Interesting…

E-mail is a huge part of my work life.  It is probably my premier channel for connecting with those I work with to to sharing information, give direction, ask questions, provide clarification, etc.  Right up there with e-mail would be face 2 face encounters and meetings.  I still like to have the human contact regularly – it’s an important aspect of work life.

Back to blogging…  I do see a lot of value in this.  To be able to share ones thinking out in the open and get feedback positive or critical, is huge.  To create conversations that persist for others to consume or contribute to is pretty powerful.  I think this post will signal a return to blogging and I will try to commit to a blog post at least twice a month.

I’d be interested in hearing from others about how they manage all the tugs and pulls of their communication channels and how they value each in supporting their work and personal lives.

Brian