Skeva Robbins here.

Welcome to the Get It Done guys, quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

These days, we have more communication channels than ever before, and it's a problem.

It's harder than ever to make sure your message gets through.

My colleague Jim wrote to me asking for an introduction to a powerful person, and I was happy to help.

Only I didn't get his message until I reviewed my spam folder several weeks after he needed

the introduction. The powerful person and I went to lunch anyway and had a fabulous shrimp

cocktail and lobster bisque. Here are seven quick and dirty tips to follow up and connect to your

network more efficiently.

Tip number one is connect via multiple inboxes.

Communication technology has made us far less efficient.

Yes, I'm deadly serious.

Once upon a time, if you needed to contact someone, you dialed them on the phone.

If they weren't there, you left a message with their mother, their secretary, or their colleague. When they got back from their three martini lunch,

they would get the note and call you right back. If they were under the age of 10, the martinis would have knocked them out, so they would call back after nap time. Today, we have too many

inboxes. We don't know where to look for incoming messages. Now that venture capitalists are all googly-eyed over social media.

Every website in existence happily provides a lame, poorly constructed email system that there's no way to disable.

Facebook, LinkedIn, and MySpace are big offenders, but almost everyone does it.

You have six regular email accounts also, plus voicemail text messages,

I message, Blackberry Messenger, I chat, AIM, Microsoft Messenger, need I go on? And your

well-meaning friends who love you to death? They also love to show how tech-savvy they are by sending

their emails on the latest and greatest platform. Thanks to their brilliant displays of technological mastery,

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