Example 1 – To have a public debate about the relative merits of email as a form of communication versus other forms, both older and newer: Discussion Forum. E

Example 1 – To have a public debate about the relative merits of email as a form of communication versus other forms, both older and newer: Discussion Forum. Example 2 – Assume a decision was made to design a new system to supplant email. A metaphor for a whiteboard would be ideal to have multiple people involved in the design of that system: A Wiki Example 3 – Assume a mission critical time sensitive deployment of a new system. Involved parties are geographically distant, but need to be kept up to date on a minute-by-minute basis: Yammer (private microblog platform) Each of these can be solved using email, but the tools I've outlined are much better at performing each task. I'm not sure if you're making me jump through these hoops just for the sake of it or if these examples really are not obvious. If someone like yourself, for whom I can only assume these tools are familiar, don't see these benefits, then it's no wonder that the general population don't see their utility either.