Comments on: Tech Firms band together to clean up email muck

By: Ayal Steiner

Ayal Steiner — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:04:13 +0000

Let’s face it – email is designed for messaging and not for the action item oriented nature of our our work.
ActionBase are working on an evolution of email called “ActionMail” which is essentially a collaborative email wiki where any recipient can work on and is managed like a regular email in Outlook. Email overload is reduced dramatically since the same email is constantly being updated instead of getting numerous emails on the same logical issue.
Check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkK2zkqac5M

By: TJ Kirchner

TJ Kirchner — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:30:51 +0000

Ok, maybe “necessary evil” was the wrong choice of words. I meant it more as a play on words, given the fact that this company is trying to reduce the amount of time spent on email, than e-mail itself being evil.

And I do agree that people overload people. Its not the fault of the devices but ourselves overusing them. Too much of a good thing can be a bad thing.

I applaud what you guys are doing out there :)

By: Nathan Zeldes

Nathan Zeldes — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:13:06 +0000

I wouldn’t call email a necessary EVIL – it is a necessary and very useful goodness, IF used correctly. One objective of the Information Overload Research Group we founded (http://www.iorgforum.org) will be educate people to apply this tool wisely.

Email doesn’t overload people… people overload people!