Can blogs save us from the pain of using email for collaboration? Yes, if you take the pain of changing away from email. An easier option is to use online groups with email to give you the advantages of blogs without the pain of changing from email. In his article Is There Life After Email?… Read more »
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Everybody e-mails everybody – you know how cumbersome that becomes!
Today I received an email describing the following problem: I am a volunteer for my community organization, and would like to set up this kind of communications tool for us. Right now, everybody e-mails everybody and copies everybody with their response you know how cumbersome that becomes! I can hardly think of a better description… Read more »
A new look for OnlineGroups.net
Today I am delighted to introduce the new design for OnlineGroups.net is which is now on all existing and new sites. You can take a tour of the new site design at http://onlinegroups.net and for a closer look, start a site of your own. OnlineGroups.net makes email work for groups. It does that by giving… Read more »
Migrate your Mailing List from Mailman to OnlineGroups.net
If you have a mailing list running on GNU Mailman, and you’d like to get the benefits of OnlineGroups.net, we would be happy to migrate your mailing list. OnlineGroups.net is a great way for your group members to collaborate using email. It provides an email address and an inbox for a group, just as email… Read more »
Nine Reasons Ditching Email is Not the Way to Go
Lee Timmins of Management Today lists ten reasons that he thinks ditching email is the way to go. I heartily agree with one of the problems that Lee points out. Email by itself is not great for group collaboration. Lee’s other nine reasons are almost the exact opposite of what I believe is the case…. Read more »
Use a Simple Tool like Email Groups to start Successful Online Collaboration
Whatever technology you use, your main challenge in getting collaboration started is going to be social. So you may as well start using simple technology and work on the social factors. Building Collaboration is a Social Problem not a Technical One Collaboration one of the holy grails of organisations. Everything will go so much better… Read more »
You are the Customer, not the Product
You may have heard the line “If you are not paying for it, you are the product.” Evidently, it originated in Metafilter. It has been discussed on Lifehacker, Computerworld and Forbes. The statement is a reference to the older idea of “user generated content” or UGC. UGC has long been a holy grail of websites…. Read more »
Directly Adding Group Members — Does It Actually Help?
Recently Google removed the feature that enabled a group administrator add members directly to a GoogleGroup, without the need for the new member to take any action. Instead, the group administrator must invite new members, who must accept the invitation before joining the group. At OnlineGroups.Net, we made a similar decision a couple of years… Read more »
Is Email Killing Collaboration?
There’s a lot of talk about alternatives to email. But if you look at people on their computers, most of the time they’re not using Web 2 or Enterprise 2. They’re using email. We use email because everyone uses email. It’s the only online communication tool that everyone uses. So we’re stuck with it. And… Read more »
The Christchurch Earthquake — Community, Local and Online
As you may know, OnlineGroups.Net has an office in Christchurch, as well as in Wellington and Canberra. The Christchurch office of OnlineGroups.Net was based in a CDB building called Kenton Chambers from 2004 until December 2010. Kenton Chambers suffered only very minor damage in the 4 September 2011 Christchurch 7.1 earthquake, so we, and a… Read more »
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