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Maybe they're just referring to intraoffice communication? Seems these days that's skewing more toward Slack/Hipchat. Business to business, though, I think you'
by iamatworknow 9y ago
Maybe they're just referring to intraoffice communication? Seems these days that's skewing more toward Slack/Hipchat. Business to business, though, I think you're right -- e-mail is still the best.
Except, of course, when dealing with someone who just has to have a muffled GoToMeeting/Join.me conference, and that ends in "I'll send you the details via e-mail" most times as well.
- blakesterz 9y agoThat's what I thought, I don't know that e-mail is still the best, but it's at least what I thought most people at most places still use to do exactly what you described there.
- iamatworknow 9y agoIt's not perfect but I do think it's the best for a number of reasons: It has the lowest barrier of entry (I don't have to train people/myself on how to use the e-mail GUI), don't have to sign up for some new account, don't have to rely on some other company's up-time (or potential dissolution), and don't have to pay a subscription fee. A company I'm working with now insists on using their Basecamp account as our means of communication and it's certainly less convenient than e-mail would be, and (at least to me) it doesn't provide any features that e-mail doesn't as far as interoffice communication goes.
- digi_owl 9y agoOn that note, i ran into an Android "app" the other day that (ab)used email as the backend for a messaging interface. Ah, found it: https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=com.b44t.messenger https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=com.b44t.messeng...