Email is So Old School
Without any hard data to support me, I’ll go out on a limb to say that email is probably the most used business application on the planet. But if it’s not, it certainly is the most consuming.
The problem with email being used in business is that it is transactional. You send something out and wait for something to come back. You have no control over what happens after it has been sent. The best you can do is sit on your hands and wait to see if it has been received and/or possibly read. Email simply fails to recognize that we live in a real-time world.
The truth is, I’ve been over email for a few years now. It has become too inefficient for my tastes. Instead, I prefer real-time interactions like instant messaging (IM). That’s why I love what we’re working on.
eXpresso is to spreadsheets what IM is to written dialog. eXpresso gives life to Excel spreadsheets. It makes them instant, alive, interactive, and centrally accessible. They become something that is living and breathing vs something that is flat and static.
So, the next time you go to click on the paper clip to attach a file to an email, ask yourself, “When was the last time I actually used a paper clip?”
Gus,
It was a long time I used a paper clip, but I often use a stapler. We haven’t come to the “paperless” office yet!
Have you written some posts on different project management tools?
Email may be old school, but it is still by far the most secure, the most unintrusive, the most effective, and the least annoying medium of communication. Presuming you deal effectively with spam of course, which one can do these days with SpamAssassin and/or Gmail.