How email is still the best colloboration tool
A long post on Central Desktop explains why 
email is still the best tool for collaboration.
Among other things, the post points out that email is customisable and tweakable in ways that other modes of online communication are not, that it is universally available and accessible and that people understood what it is and how to use it.
You may remember a flurry of Internet opinion a few months ago forecasting the imminent death of email and/or the replacement of email with wikis and Instant Messaging.
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Tags: collaboration, email, IM, Internet, Productivity, web 2.0, wiki
April 11th, 2006 at 12:40 am
On the whole, true enough. I know email is what most of my communication at work still goes through. It could be better, of course, and it will get better as we figure out better ways to search, integrate and overlap the data in email.
But the wiki idea is looking awfully nice for online documentation collaboration.