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January 28, 2007
New Word for 2007: email-lag
Every once in a while a new word enters my Internet vocabulary.
“email-lag” is the term I’ve been using lately to explain the delay in getting back to people due to my month of business travel. Over the years I’ve somehow managed to respond to emails almost as quickly as they were received. During the past few weeks, I’ve had trouble keeping up with responding to people as quickly as I would like to.
“email-lag: While I may be current with emails received today, but I am still catching up with emails sent to me a week ago.”
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email-lag: defined
1. Falling behind in email.
2. “When the jetlag goes away, email-lag lingers on” – When traveling, some people experience moments of being disconnected. When people reconnect, if they respond to their most recent emails, then emails that get ignored/trapped/dropped suffer from email-lag.
3. Responding to an email in a time frame that is significantly much longer than the email response time you are known for.
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Posted by jeff on January 28, 2007 08:27 AM | Permalink
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Comments
How about email-fragged - being completely overwhelmed by e-mail... or would that be email-pwned :-)
Which logically leads to email-frag where you bombard somebody with e-mail.
Posted by: Mike Picher at January 29, 2007 04:33 AM
What if it's not just email?
How about e-Lag?
iLag?
Posted by: Christopher Penn, Financial Aid Podcast at January 28, 2007 07:23 PM