2, 4, 6, 8, Let's All Collaborate
Peter Merholz,
Peterme.com,
Dec 26, 2002
Elearnspace picked up this nice blog entry that discusses a survey showing that the only collaboration tool to have shown any improvement in productivity is email. I also agree with the analysis: "Which collaborative digital tools seem to work? What gets people to coordinate, to work together to a common goal? And my answer: dumb simple ones. Email. Instant messaging. Simple bulletin boards like bugzilla. Voice telephone calls. Weblogs." OK, well, while I don't use my telephone any more (so don't call me, OK?), I do use the rest. Simplicity works. Feature bloat - afflicting everything from Outlook to learning managemet systems - doesn't work. "This will likely frustrate the hell of out big software vendors, who want to develop over-engineered software solutions that require many servers and for which they can charge hundreds of thousands of dollars. Because, frankly, those things don't work."
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