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January 23, 2004
Email Is Where Knowledge Goes To Die
Posted by Stowe Boyd
Seb Paquet pointed me to an interesting piece: Transforming Information into Knowledge at the Portal by Bill French.
"On a daily basis almost every knowledge-worker reads news and other sources of business content and then creates comments and observations that other business associates, colleagues, customers, and vendors consume. The usual and customary method for creating annotations and observations is by e-mail. I have nothing against e-mail - in fact - my philosophical perspective is that SMTP and e-mail processes represent valuable collaboration tools for enterprises that cannot be discarded, but may certainly be optimized. However, the place where e-mail content comes to rest is problematic - e-mail is where knowledge goes to die."
French goes on to detail his wishlist for how rich, collaborative media (such as blog networks) can support the modern information/knowledge worker better than email.
And I love that line: e-mail is where knowledge goes to die.
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