What does your intranet do for the company, for people? We could have a good discussion around objectives and purposes I’m sure. I have an idea for you that falls somewhere between ‘strategic’ and ‘tactical’, and it’s to reduce your company’s reliance upon email as a broad distribution tool and a pseudo-collaborative environment.

Email and attachmentsI don’t mean to suggest that email is evil, as email, like mail, is fantastic for private correspondence between two (or so) people. But as a distribution channel for documents of any kind it sucks; and email is demonstrably not a collaborative space....

Source: kilobox.net Posted by admin 89 days, 1 hour, 6 minutes ago

Get a load of this. A survey released this week revealed the latest affliction to hit white-collar workers. It’s called ‘information rage’, and almost one in two Aussie employees is affected by it. Overwhelmed by the torrent of data flooding corporate workplaces, many are on the verge of breaking point.

Only 40 per cent of emails are deemed to be of value. The others are a waste of time. A classic offender is the old “cc”. This is when people get copied into a never-ending thread of electronic notifications, with very few of these pertinent to the work of the recipients.

Source: www.theage.com.au Posted by support 469 days, 2 hours, 30 minutes ago

Email was the first collaboration tool in the Intranet. Then intranet portals emerged, and they wanted to kill Email because of its lacks: instead of sending back and forth messages and documents, they are placed on a portal web-page (for example, in the news, on the forum or file cabinet).

But due to the fact that people got used to e-mail and email was also used for external communications - intranet portals failed to replace the Email as a primary workspace. Moreover, rec...

Source: www.liventerprise.com Posted by admin 512 days, 9 hours, 27 minutes ago

In his August 18 article for CMS Wire, Laurence Hart argues that email is the reason that new collaboration technology adoption is slow in the enterprise. He offers a number of reasons for the dominance of email:

• Ubiquity. Everyone has email, and the email system you use works with the email system I use.

• Integrated calendaring, for planning and scheduling meetings.

• Task and contact management.

He also gives the negatives - poorly managed content, the explosion of storage requirements for email, and siloed information.

My reaction...

Source: currents.michaelsampson.net Posted by support 520 days, 13 hours, 48 minutes ago

Email is dead? Hardly. Four reasons why email is ideally suited to bring web 2.0 innovations to the enterprise.

Google’s latest moves to extend Google Voice to a complete phone calling service within Gmail and to pull the plug on Google Wave demonstrate that Gmail has become the centerpiece of Google’s Enterprise 2.0 initiative, with far-reaching implications for email users and the industry. What’s clearer now than ever before is that Web 2.0 pundits got it wrong: email is far from dead.

Source: www.cmswire.com Posted by bee 522 days, 2 hours, 14 minutes ago

It’s simple really – too simple. Any mistakes made when communicating to a large audience via email tend to be stupid mistakes.

Email is so heavily relied upon that we all think we’re ‘good at it’, but we ain’t. These nine points come from the lessons I’ve learnt over the last few months.

Source: kilobox.net Posted by support 547 days, 11 hours, 11 minutes ago

There is no doubt, we have a love-hate relationship with email. As much as we say we would like to ditch this modern millstone, there is plenty of evidence to show that email remains entrenched in the information workplace as a core communication tool.

Worldwide email traffic continues to grow at an enormous rate and is now measured in billions of messages per day. This trend is also reflected inside organisations, where according to Gartner Research it is typically growing at a rate of 30% each year.

However, these numbers only tell one side of the story. Access to corporate email might be common place, but opinion remains divided about its effectiveness. As the volume of email has increased, so have the complaints about information overload, the impact of poor communication and inefficient collaboration practices. In response to these issues, technologists have created more new tools that each promise to solve the email problem better than the last.

Source: www.headshift.com Posted by bee 634 days, 13 hours, 5 minutes ago