McGee’s Musings : Email vs. Wiki: Picture = 1000 words department

{ 2008 03 28 }

Email vs. Wiki: Picture = 1000 words department

Thank you Espen for this excellent visual.

Email vs Wiki

This picture really says it all:

(From Chris Rasmussen via Anthony Williams. Apologies for repeat to my BSG Alliance colleagues, but this one is definitely one for a wide audience.)

Posted by Jim on Friday, March 28, 2008, at 10:09 am. Filed under Design. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. You can post a comment or trackback from your blog.

{ 3 } Comments

Roland Hesz | March 29, 2008 at 5:36 am | Permalink

Funny how hard it is to introduce anything that would replace e-mails into a company.
Wiki, blog, CMS, you name it.

I think one think should be put on the pictures: company resistance.
“If it’s not in a folder, it’s not safe”

It’s sad, but true.
laoqiao | March 31, 2008 at 10:01 am | Permalink

In your above pic, how do the users learn about the wiki, magically?

Probably, they learn about it by an email giving them the URL.
Jim | March 31, 2008 at 10:09 am | Permalink

Sure. Email is an excellent tool for communicating something like the URL to a wiki.

Email is still a lousy tool for coordinating the development of a shared document.

I also think the quest for a single tool “to rule them all” is as useless on my computer as it is in my workshop.