Today we are faced with many problems associated with using email. Tons of users’ mailboxes are constantly overflowing with mail. Email needs to be addressed to solve many issues that we are faced. SocialShake.com has been working on many issues involving email, and they have perfected the next email!
Majority of the issues revolve around the volume of email that is received and therein lays the problem. Also, all email is treated equal with only one destination, our inbox. With being inundated with email, it’s very difficult and tiresome to manage our inbox effectively especially with sorting between newsletter’s, spam, and relevant email. Many of us have gone to the extreme of even declaring “email bankruptcy” where we delete our entire inbox and start over. Most notable individuals to declare email bankruptcy are Fred Wilson, Jeff Nolan, Lawrence Lessig, and Michael Arrington.
SocialShake.com’s email service addresses many of these issues and has a very unique solution to use email.
The first is by associating the relationship of how we know senders of an email. This is the “Social Graph”. This relationship might be through work, an organization, military, school, where one lives, a phone or cell phone number, or even through the internet (email, instant message, or social networks).
Next is to group how we know potential senders into networks (groups of people). An example network can be “work”. Then you want to assign your Social Graph to this network. An example on how this can be accomplished is by creating a work filter where you specify the company name and point it to your work network. This now allows us to classify senders and any incoming email to your SocialShake email account will be from your work and any other networks you assign.
The final step is to filter your email based on your networks. This is accomplished by taking the same principles behind the way Google GrandCentral works. Instead of having one phone number that rings all of your phone numbers, is to have one email that forwards to all your emails. All you need to do is add an email address where you want SocialShake to forward an email to. While adding an email address you specify which networks can send an email to you. If the sender is not in your network by the way you know them through your Social Graph, SocialShake will then look at your other email addresses and checks with those networks. If SocialShake cannot find an email address to forward to, the sender simply receives a courtesy email informing them that they aren’t within your Social Graph with alternatives on how they can email you.
Now we finally have an email that will group senders on how we know them through your Social Graph, prioritize email and direct email to the appropriate email address such as our work, personal or any other email which will reduce and eliminate spam. Plus with SocialShake it will be the last email address you will need to be known by!
Related urls:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/23/a-crisis-in-communication/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/24/AR2007052402258_pf.html
http://valleywag.com/tech/trends/declaring-e+mail-bankruptcy-254608.php
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