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Brittany Creamer

9 months ago

in Don't E-Mail It! on Sharing at Work
I am such a fan of minimizing reliance on email. A one-to-one communication strategy is simply not as effective as a many-to-many tool. It's not just businesses resisting the change, though. Even my project groups at UT comprised soley of NetGeners find it difficult to stop pounding out emails with attachments and cc-ing everyone. My suggestion of using Google groups as a way to write documents for an assignment together (without those pesky meetings on campus) was revolutionary! I kid, but you would have thought I'd invented a time machine the way everyone stared at me like I was crazy. Thanks for advocating more collaborative and effective methods of communication. The more momentum that builds, the easier it will be to convince people to cross over!
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Daniel J. Pritchett I find that I spend a lot more time lately thinking of ways to enable my work groups to collaborate more efficiently. The hard part continues to be finding the courage (and the right time) to call them to action.

Maybe next time you could try a Facebook group for your project rather than a Google group? Those would probably be comfortably familiar
to your teammates.
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