Your famous E-Groups are not losing members because of "Over-cush cush, Internet squabbles, Kongossa, Over-sabi or You do-me-I-do-you syndrome. On the contrary, Email "cushing" is an adrenaline booster to the writer and the reader. Take me for example: When I am "cushed" (as is often the case), I don't care whether the cush is justified or not but my body organs go just begin dey charge like new battery. The truth is; Technology is simply wiping out Emails as we knew it. Many who ran away to "Facebook" are today overwhelmed with "Too much Information and very beautiful pictures of not so beautiful people" Sometimes, some of the HOT pictures I see on Facebook and I mimba the person in reality, I go just knack one shot Hennessey telling myself say "Ndutu plenty 4 outside".
Read below and draw your own conclusions.
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Email won't be replaced, but it will be eclipsed
Opinions about the future of email are plentiful and polarizing. Every day there's a story about a new killer app that's going to prompt the demise of email. On the other hand, pundits will reach into their arsenal of email growth figures to argue that email isn't going anywhere. After all, email account creation is expected to grow by 5-7% in the next few years. But these opposing viewpoints both miss the mark.
Email won't be replaced, but it will be eclipsed.
Each day more emails are sent and received, from more devices, and from more systems. That trend will continue, but at a decreasing pace, until email is no longer the dominant form of communication. That's because email is still a useful system and new technologies have emerged that more conveniently create space for collaboration and communication. It's not one or the other. It's both.
There's no "killer app" that's going to take down email
Consider technologies like Instagram, Box, Asana and Do. If you use any or all of them, you know they've reduced the number of emails in your inbox. But it's not because they steal productive conversations from email. These apps create collaboration around photos, files, projects and meetings that wouldn't otherwise happen. Whereas before you might have emailed a file to a coworker seeking feedback before a presentation, you can now simply share a link and turn on commenting and editing features.
Then there's Slack, the app that has transformed the way hundreds of thousands of desk workers and engineering teams interact with each other and their systems, reducing email in the process. Alerts that were once slow and disruptive are now integrated directly into your workflows, making it easier to work in context.
And while each of these technologies amount to paper cuts in the end of email debate, this isn't your same old death-by-a-thousand-cuts argument. The most important thing about these new technologies is that they're creating new and more useful ways to communicate, and the number of conversations that are taking place outside of email is accelerating at a rate greater than the growth of email itself.
Email is still prolific, but it's a lot less relevant
Email itself has become a frustrating medium. First off, work has changed. More desk workers are mobile, and more mobile workers are equipped with smartphones and tablets. For a variety of reasons, including the amount of steps that go into composing an email, the irrelevance of push notifications, and the lack of integration with other programs, email just doesn't keep pace with mobile work.
What's worse, the daily deluge of sales, marketing and advertising messages coupled with 90-minute average response times for email has turned the platform into a productivity killer. I won't belabor that point because there's exhaustive research available, but what's worth mentioning is that workers have responded.
Looking for mediums that are faster and lower friction, workers have turned to enterprise social networks, video conferences, texting and mobile messaging to move work along. As one-to-one and group conversations move off email its relevancy decreases.
Email isn't going away anytime soon, but you should get ahead of its decline
One reason that email isn't going away anytime soon is because businesses are completely entrenched. Email is more than just a communication tool. It's a standard we use to authenticate into other systems, and it's a massive infrastructure investment that would be difficult to abandon. But that doesn't mean now isn't a good time for looking toward an email-free future, however distant it may be.
When deploying new systems, projects and technologies, think outside the inbox. Consider how messaging and other communication protocols can better serve the needs of a more mobile workforce, and incorporate them into your team's workflows. Look for enterprise software tools with built-in collaboration or the ability to integrate with messaging apps. And finally, keep an open mind. If your organization's communication is trending away from email, don't assume it means people aren't communicating. It could just mean they've found a better way to do it.
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