In the modern workplace, you are probably used to sending hundreds of emails back and forth throughout the workday. E-mail has undoubtedly been a great replacement for snail mail and relentless phone tag. But, e-mail isn’t perfect either. How many times has an important conversation of yours been buried after the most recent flood of e-mails? Or, have you ever received a single forwarded e-mail with pages and pages of previous e-mails in it, making the information you really need very difficult to find?
Fortunately, collaboration software, serves as an effective replacement for e-mail. Once you get the hang of this new workplace tool, you’ll see how it effectively complements e-mail. Some of the following ways a collaboration tool might replace e-mail at your workplace include:
- Streamlining conversations. Let’s say you work on a team of five people, some of whom you have to contact multiple times per day. Think about how many e-mails will have to be sent and how much back-and-forth there will be. Now, consider what would happen if you had an enterprise social network in place. Everyone could subscribe to one conversation, where all updates would be posted. You would receive real-time notification of any new updates made in regard to the topic.