{"id":301,"date":"2008-07-01T09:27:10","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T07:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/?p=301"},"modified":"2008-07-01T09:27:10","modified_gmt":"2008-07-01T07:27:10","slug":"can-social-networking-tools-replace-e-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/can-social-networking-tools-replace-e-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Social Networking tools replace e-mail?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A colleague, IBMer Luis Suarez<\/a>, wrote an article in the NYtimes<\/a> on how he is using Social Networking tools to reduce the use of e-mail.  And I quote<\/p>\n

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E-mail can become extinct, if not repurposed altogether, even at big companies like I.B.M. An e-mail in-box no longer needs to be like Pandora’s box.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I am not sure whether I totally agree with this … there is still a place for e-mail.  As another IBMer Ed Brill say<\/a> and I quote<\/p>\n

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Even if you move all of your collaboration to other tools, there still needs to be a prompt, a push, a tickle, an alert … something that draws you into the collaboration.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And this push or tickle as Ed calls it is usually via email. If somebody comments on a blog post of mine I get prompted about it via email.  If somebody follow me on Twitter I get informed via email.  If somebody send me a message via Facebook then I get informed via e-mail.<\/p>\n

So to answer my own question, no I do not think so.  Yes it can reduce the volume of email (an I do not talk about all the spam) in your inbox but totally replace, no I do not think so.  I would love to hear your comments about it.<\/p>\n

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