Comments on: Is email dead? No, but it’s not well

By: Pankaj

Pankaj — Thu, 28 May 2009 01:36:37 +0000

Well, email refuses to die. Although it may never completely die out - its too simple to use, were too used to it - we can at least reduce the burden on its shoulders. Email is clearly not best for collaborative work (working together on files), and we need to shift to tools which are optimal for these purposes.

We had recently done a whitepaper on the subject (http://hyperoffice.com/business-email-overload/) which was also covered by ZDNet (http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=18692)

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By: Greg Cangialosi

Greg Cangialosi — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 17:16:03 +0000

Far, far, far from being dead for sure. Like Tom O’Leary mentions above, email is evolving with the rest of the landscape. Its role is changing and despite what other may think, I believe its role is becoming more important than ever.

Sure email has had its challenges and still does, but as a social and certainly a marketing medium, its alive and well and about to be seen in a new light soon.

Thanks for the post – this is a good conversation.

- Greg

By: Laura

Laura — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:50:55 +0000

Silliness! Email is doing better than it was not so long ago. What was killing email was spam, and spam fighting is getting better. Phishing is still a problem, but that can happen anywhere.

But until there is a proper replacement for (reasonably) private asynchronous communication more than 144 characters long, email will live on. You can’t run a business on IM and Twitter or by txtng or “poking” people. Maybe email is not fun socially for kids, but right now there’s no replacement except to move backwards to snail mail.

By: Antje Wilsch

Antje Wilsch — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:10:18 +0000

just wait until they will get jobs (well we hope) and yes they will have to use email and, god forbid, letters/phone. How can one do business on twitter, social networks, text and IM? There is a time and a place for all of these. Kids have no reason to send email b/c they are instantly connected and know each other. But the same personal rules of engagement don’t apply in a professional setting. Just give them a few years. They said email would be the post office killer and I still get daily mail from the post office.