Collaboration and “occupational spam”
Wednesday, May 10th, 2006
At Information World Review, David Tebbutt posts 
about the much-hyped “death of email”.
Late last year Business Week published an article on how email is in its death-throes and Stowe Boyd later confirmed that it is all true — email is on its last legs.
Tebbutt has a more nuanced view. He sees the value of wikis, IM and other collaborative tools as ways of freeing us from the avalanche of “Reply All” emails that whizz around the average office, described by Ross Mayfield of Socialtext as “occupational spam”.
He argues that greater use of these tools doesn’t mean the end of email. On the contrary, he says, it will free email up:
Tags: blogs, collaboration, email, IM, Productivity, the death of email, web 2.0, wikisIn fact, email could well be heading for a renaissance as a person-to-person communication tool. Exactly what it was invented for.
