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Peak Email {A Fairy Story}
1. Communication
In the early 90s, there was E-mail. A few people used it and it was good.
In the early 90s, there was E-mail. A few people used it and it was good.
First you needed to work for an institution (such as a university) to get an email account. Then you could get one on AOL or Compuserve. Then came Hotmail.
In the early 90s, there was E-mail. A few people used it and it was good.
First you needed to work for an institution (such as a university) to get an email account. Then you could get one on AOL or Compuserve. Then came Hotmail.
But just because you can use email doesn’t mean that you should.
E-mail Instant Messaging
If E-mail is e-mail then instant messaging is e-whispering.
E-mail Instant Messaging
If E-mail is e-mail then instant messaging is e-whispering. Or e-passingnotesatthebackofthe class.
E-mail Instant Messaging
It took about 10 years for instant messaging to get inside organisations.
If E-mail is e-mail then instant messaging is e-whispering. Or e-passingnotesatthebackofthe class.
Blog
If E-mail is e-mail then blogs are e-ranting. With the right of reply.
If E-mail is e-mail then Twitter is e-rantingatthebackoftheclasswiththerightofreply.
Blog Twitter
E-mail Instant Messaging
Open
Closed
•Leaves a record•Works with a small # ofconversation participants
•Good for paragraphs / argument
•Leaves a record•Driven by voice of blogger•Interaction thru comments& with other blogs
•Conversational•Immediate•Works with a small # ofconversation participants
Heavy Lite
•Conversational•Immediate•Driven by voice of writer•Interaction with other writers
2. Collaboration
To E-mail we added Word (& Excel & Powerpoint).
To E-mail we added Word (& Excel & Powerpoint).
And we turned on “Track Changes”.
To E-mail we added Word (& Excel & Powerpoint).
And we turned on “Track Changes”.
E-mailE-mailE-mailE-mailE-mail
To E-mail we added Word (& Excel & Powerpoint).
And we turned on “Track Changes”.
E-mailE-mailE-mailE-mailE-mail
Oh dear.
And some of these documents we put on intranets & internets. But we couldn’t edit them there. Until…
HTML
HTML Wikis
Open
Closed
Receiver Read-only
Receiver Read & Write
HTML Wikis
E-mail Word
Open
Closed
Receiver Read-only
Receiver Read & Write
•Presents formatting & attachments
•Often cannot be edited by readers
•Presentation formatting & attachments is unreliable
•Readers can respond but not edit original
•Presents formatting & attachments
•Readers can edit documents
•Editing co-ordinated
•Presents formatting•Readers can edit documents
•Editing unco-ordinated
3. Notification
E-mail has been a tool for receiving updates for some time.
E-mail has been a tool for receiving updates for some time.
Along with everything else it does.
E-mail RSS
RSS can offer a dedicated channel for updates from websites, blogs & wikis.
E-mail RSS
E-mail RSS•A mix of one-way and two-way communication
•Can be hard to locate content from a specific source
•Dedicated one-way channel for content updates
•Easy to locate content from a specific source
To Conclude
Instant
MessagingWikis
HTML
Blogs
RSS
E-mail: It’s not bad. It just needs to know its place.
