Go Green! Go 2.0

This is my new thought for the day. Go Green; Go 2.0

I got the dreaded "your mailbox is almost full" message and low and behold I looked and had 453 emails in my inbox and 566 in my sent - that pesky sent folder - I always forget to watch that too. Needless to say I started cleaning it out at 7:30 this morning and its now almost 1:00 and I'm down to....445 in my inbox that is right 453 to 445! As much as I cleaned out came back at me in that same time period - although I'm down to 42 in my sent so I'm making progress there. This caused me to tweet about how much I hate cleaning out my inbox - for those not following me - my twit read:
windygap96 Cleaning out my inbox & wondering how to reduce email waste. I'm thinking of starting a Go Green initiative for email-how does Go 2.0 sound? about 6 hours ago from web

Now that I've pondered it more I think this is a brilliant idea! The boss recently made me take a profiling assessment to determine my work style and true to my "profile" of being an "ideator" this is my new idea from my ideator self....now the question is... how realistic.

Given in the 6 hours I've been cleaning my inbox I've reduced my # by 8 I decided to take a look at my patterns. Apparently I contribute to that waste! With 42 outgoing emails that could have easily been IM's, wikis, or any number of other tools that don't litter my inbox - shame on me for not recycling.

About 9 of my emails today could have been accomplished in IM involving something that I am now moving to Bubbl.us - we'll see how it goes.

Those of you interested in joining my Go Green; Go 2.0 initiative:
I am windygap96 in:

• aol im
• ichat
• skype
• twitter
• myspace
• slideshare
• del.icio.us
  

jspinkstrickland in gmail and yahoo
windy gibb in Second Life

Please next time you email me...consider an IM, tweet, or text message! (Yes I realize I did not give my phone number for texting - I'm not that crazy! If you want it you gotta call me! :o)

See you online!
windygap96 aka: Jennifer