The R/evolution of Email

Why email needs Enterprise 2.0 technologies

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Today business email is essentially “broken”. Or rather it is at the stage where its bad habits are institutionalized and accepted as the norm.

For example, people routinely abuse 'Reply All' and CC for broadcasting non-actionable and FYI emails. This is 'office spam' that contributes significantly to email overload and distractions because all recipients must take the time necessary to process these emails.

Another consequence of blasting non-actionable and FYI emails is that knowledge gets locked up in individual inboxes where it is often hard to retrieve on-demand, and definitely not available to stakeholders not on the original recipient list.

People do this because they feel like they don't have a choice - email is such a simple way to broadcast information and everybody knows how to do it. For the first time, Taglocity provides a viable choice - a choice that doesn't require users to abandon email for wikis.

The result is lower productivity, wasted knowledge, and reduced competitiveness. Estimates vary but one report from Intel suggests that it may cost as much as US$1 billion annually for a knowledge intensive company of 50,000 employees.

The Solution

The solution is to extend existing email systems with Enterprise 2.0 technologies to support the way people naturally use them.  Email systems must evolve from a 'closed' person-to-person communications system to a hybrid solution featuring an 'open' collaborative platform for publishing and sharing non-private information.

From 'push' only to 'push' and 'pull' thereby giving people more control over their own attention and enabling knowledge discovery and sharing on-demand to all stakeholders.

In addition to being able to quickly find needed information, information should also 'find' people based on their criteria and terms.

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Call to Action

The way we work is changing rapidly. The ever increasing speed of business coupled with the exponentially increasing rate of information production within the geographically expanding work communities is creating both opportunities and threats.

There is an enormous competitive advantage for individuals and business who embrace new systems that enable contextual, agile, and simplified information exchange to communities of knowledge workers, without requiring them to rewire their brains. In addition, reducing email overload and attention deficit boosts productivity and frees up valuable time for more important tasks.

Conversely there are potentially devastating risks for those who don’t embrace these systems: information overload, lost productivity, stress & underperformance, wasted knowledge (aka intellectual capital), crippled collaboration, ineffective knowledge transfer and inefficient information sharing. Our technology mitigates these risks.

Taglocity 2.0

Taglocity 2.0 is an innovative Enterprise Web 2.0 inspired email productivity and knowledge sharing solution. It provides a compelling competitive advantage for proactive individuals and agile enterprises. It's simple-to-use yet very powerful - and it’s enthusiastically adopted by users because it provides personal value and works within an environment they already use every day.

Email productivity & knowledge sharing

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