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Buzzword Bingo 5: Violate My Inbox

July 13th, 2009
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There are plenty of enterprise collaboration applications to choose from. Wikis, blogs and forums are all the rage, but are they really better than email? This week on Buzzword Bingo, Jason and Mike talk enterprise collaboration tools with Michael Popovich and Jeremy Laurenson. Michael is a Consulting Systems Engineer with Cisco. Jeremy is a Technology Solutions Architect with Cisco. Together they provide some great insight on the usefulness of enterprise collaboration tools and their impact on end-user productivity.


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  • @eemge I prefer a phone call these days. I've come full circle it seems because I used to hate the phone. But now, I hate email more. IM and text are fine because they don't require too much typing. But Twitter and Facebook are the most effective for the "how you been?" questions.
  • eemge
    Hate to disagree with Popo. I'm a phone guy but hate the phone. I think it is now a rude interruption and should be for critical/emergency use only. If someone has a question for me or needs to tell me something I would much rather have an IM or text msg. Then I have control of the communication. I rarely answer voice calls for that reason. Let it go to VM and then I again have some control. Besides, a guy like me with ADD has no time for the pleasantries involved with a phone "This is Erwin, Hi Mike, pause... Ya I'm doing good, how you been? pause..." So 15 seconds of my life GONE! If it is going to take a while to explain and doesn't need immediate reply, send an email. But then email just irritates me. Have yet to find the perfect mashup of tools.
  • micpopov
    eemge - agreed about the IM and text messaging. Certainly not wanting more phone calls than I need it was just an immediate example of other alternatives to email. Sometimes people get so locked into email they expect response in almost real time. Text and IM are great alternatives that are certainly more real time than email.

    BTW - How are ya doin!? :)
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