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    <title><![CDATA[Discussion on Stopping the email bloat: Are your business processes and email the same thing? ]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[Collaboration is key]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Meesha.  I'm glad to hear that collaboration is helping your company succeed.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[alan.lepofsky@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:29:01 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Collaboration]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Allan, you've brought out a very good point. Our organization was &quot;bogged&quot; down with emails until we decided to adopt a more collaborative process. We researched various tools/options and the best we found was Lotus NOTES/Domino. Since adopting this new tool our collaboration has skyrocketed. Example, previously, emails were considered part of the &quot;project&quot; now we use teamrooms as a repository for all project related items. At anytime staff, new or otherwise can go through the project files or they can set up subscriptions for when new items are deposited. Our emails along with their attachments have significantly reduced in volume.So, yes collaboration is clearly one of the elements for how we work.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Meesha]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:46:06 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Stopping the email bloat: Are your business processes and email the same thing?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Hello Ramon.  My name is Alan Lepofsky, Director of Marketing at Socialtext, working with Ross Mayfield.  I'm thrilled to see you quote him, as Ross is a leader and visionary on this topic.   I wanted to add a few thoughts.You use the word communication several times, but not collaboration.  To me, communication tools such as email, 1:1 chats, etc. are affective at delivering information, but are not the most affective way to collaborate with multiple people on anything the requires reviewing, editing, brainstorming, etc.   Also, email tends to limit the reach of information, where only the defined recipients have access.  What happens when a new employee comes along?  How do they benefit from this information?  Instead of using email, more collaborate tools should be used.  Blogs, wikis, teamrooms, forums, etc.   By using open tools, not only is information available to a larger audience (increasing the collective memory of your company), but the collective wisdom of the audience can contribute and lend their expertise.   For example, at Socialtext we have shared workspaces set up where all employees openly share information about the projects they are working on.   Anyone can comment, and anyone can find the information they need to get their job done.Finally, you mention business process a few times.  Ross has another great line about how most people spend their time not following business processes, but instead business practices.   Those practices rarely match the defined process.  Hence we spend our time on exceptions, rather than execution.Thank you for blogging about this, please let me know if I can help you with anything in the future.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:39:26 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Is your email bogged down in extraneous conversation?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In many organizations, the phone and email are the extent to which employees can communicate.  For the same reasons social networks and other WEB 2.0 applications have exploded outside the organization, they are needed within are organizations to better organize our communications.  How many of you actually have secure IM, Wikis, and other tools &quot;officially&quot; at your disposal in the workplace?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ramon Padilla Jr.]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 04:26:56 -0700</pubDate>
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