Tuesday, July 13, 2010
xobni
Does anyone use xobni for organizing Outlook? I'm surfing Web 2.0 - found a cool conference website (http://www.web2expo.com/webexsf2010) - and stumbled across xobni. My work email is a catastrophe. It looks like you can also use a gadget to connect Outlook with Facebook and Twitter profiles. AHHH, my head is going to explode!
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Personally, I don't like to have all of those things connected. I have two reasons.
ReplyDeleteFirst, just a personal preference. I like to keep parts of my life separate, and I often have multiple accounts on a platform (e.g. personal and professional) if it makes sense to do so. I'm looking for ways to manage it all in contained spaces, not for a way to create a superhighway into my computer. To follow the road metaphor, I can instead have everything converge at a midpoint with a stoplight, only letting one side through at a time. That's a plus to me.
Second, it's a privacy thing. The more I merge, the more data accumulates about me in one place. Don't like it.
To echo Vanessa's comments above, I like to keep personal things like Facebook and Twitter separate from my work life. This is especially important to me because at work everything is public record. The more of myself I connect to work, the more privacy I lose.
ReplyDeleteI'm with you both on keeping the non-work stuff separate but the tool looks to have the capability of organizing emails within an account. That's the functionality I'm interested in. I'm sure our network security folks wouldn't let me link to Twitter or Facebook. We can't access those sites from our network in the DOE...and I'm fine with that.
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