Comments on: Is Email good enough as a collaboration tool?

By: basetta

basetta — Wed, 02 May 2007 07:32:17 +0000

I have a lot problem with mz inbox. Too much stuff stuck there.

By: Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive A CIO Revolutionizes the Rules of Email «

Tue, 01 May 2007 12:49:08 +0000

[...] up email strikes at the main problem of email as collaboration tool, that is, that our archives are only available for our own reading and perusal. It turns email into [...]

By: Gil Heiman

Gil Heiman — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 23:36:12 +0000

Email is definitely here to stay, however, I believe we will spend less time on email and prioritize our time on more pressing matters accessible via other solutions.

More specifically, in the context of teams, where email truly lacks, solutions such as our free flagship solution, Collanos Workplace, will allow users to shift their attention and time to higher priority issues making them significantly more productive and realize the benefits of a true team collaboration solution.

Being a P2P (peer to peer) cross-platform (Mac, Linux, Windows) application, users will have a much better experience both by having offline and online access as well as the user experience they are so familiar with from other standard applications residing on their computers.

The more a team player you are the less time you will be spending on email and realize the benefits of a solution built for teams.

By: Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive Six Tools for the Post-Email Era «

Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive Six Tools for the Post-Email Era « — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:35:59 +0000

[...] We can see hints of the post-email era in tools that are under development or available right now. Let’s let these tools suggest to us how we might move beyond email as a good enough collaboration and communication tool. [...]

By: Ahna

Ahna — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 03:35:16 +0000

Is it ok?

By: Abby

Abby — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:47:18 +0000

Not bad, it really can occur

By: Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive Why Instant Messaging is Better for Collaboration than Email «

Sat, 06 Jan 2007 23:38:23 +0000

[...] Instant Messaging is Better for Collaboration than Email We’ve wondered before whether email is good enough as a collaboration tool. What about instant messaging, like Google Talk or AIM? A study out of Taiwan that Lifehacker [...]

By: Michael's Thoughts

Michael's Thoughts — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 17:14:15 +0000

Email vs. Collaboration Technology: The Big Match, Dec 12

There has been a good debate in the blogspace during the previous 3-4 months regarding the good and bad of email as a collaboration tool, and I’ve stayed out of it until today. My intention in this post is to

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By: mind this - by Lars Plougmann

mind this - by Lars Plougmann — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:22:07 +0000

The 10-to-1 rule of email project management: Follow up

In August of this year, I published some thoughts on how effective email is when it is used as the only or main communication tool for a project. The post became part of a discussion on multiple blogs so I

By: Boris

Boris — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 01:22:07 +0000

I use Mail with MailTags, which binds it to iCal. Ideally, there will soon also be a plugin for AddressBook-aware SmartMailboxes too. and other such stuff. To Do's? W. ;)

By: karl

karl — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 01:21:20 +0000

I do NOT have an inbox and Mail.app is my central work application. :)

That will require a bit of explanation, I guess. I’m using a procmail rules to distribute all emails coming from one month in a dated folder on my imap account. It means that a folder hierarchy 2006/08, 2006/09, and so on.

So everything is coming in one mailbox, the one of the month. They key of my way of working is SMART mailboxes. There are smart mailboxes for anykind of things I want to do and read, for mailing list, for people, etc. It means that an individual mail can be at different places at the same time. Because smart mailboxes are based on the data (metadata) and not about the location where the mail has been sorted out.

Smart mailboxes have multiple criterias and you can make one with show me all mails of this person but only for the last two weeks, etc.

By: Bertil

Bertil — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 11:43:50 +0000

The best I have seen recently is the Gtalk foot in Gmail: both are great, but the idea I really like is that you shoudl first who you want to contact, then have his availbilty details, and decide from there to talk, IM or mail. The guy who makes this work in a cell phone is a billionnaire — I imply that the cell phone can fill in the availabity details himself, from motion and geolocation.

By: Tony

Tony — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 22:49:58 +0000

I agree about centralizing the emails, To-Do’s and calendar. At home, I use Outlook with the Gettng Things Done (GTD) Add-In. At work, I am stuck with Netscape email or a web based version that is not integrated with other apps like calendar or task lists. Collaborative reviews in Acrobat become hampered by an old outdated email system client.

I have been using Gmail more and more and just started using the GTDGmail FF plug-in. This makes GMail even easier to use as a way to organize using custom labels, filters, etc.. Worth checking out if you GMail and are a disciple of David Allen’s GTD.

Tony
“TSG”

By: Nitin Borwankar

Nitin Borwankar — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 21:58:11 +0000

Email is great for 1-1 communication but needs something like a cross-platform open standards based *personal* version of lotus notes to make it a collaboration tool. Group context is weak in email.

By: Joshua 'Z' Hernandez

Joshua 'Z' Hernandez — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 07:11:28 +0000

ummm no its not .. in my case i dont want to spend more time managing my own email to make it manageable .. so i use Basecamp with my partners, clients and freelancers.

Its expensive compared to email but it really kicks alot of ass in regards to keeping people up to date and other assets and resources organized.

http://www.basecamphq.com/