Plone NGO Mailing List Christian Aid go for Microsoft over Open Source

michael nt milne michael.milne at gmail.com
Wed Nov 15 19:53:45 UTC 2006


"Sole use of email usually  means a dramatic loss institutional memory"

Absolutely spot on. Knowledge management is key and is lost in email
systems. Most knowledge is held within people and is not transferred if
email systems are the main collaborative tool. It's too personal.

On 11/15/06, Peter Hollands <peter.hollands at dale.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 15 November 2006 16:11, Matt Lee wrote:
> > Although it may not be elegant, email is still a very good way to
> > allow you to work offline, and as they say, if it isn't broken, don't
> > fix it
>
> But I think the point is that email is  broken - in the sense that it is a
> poor tool from the point of view of collaboration within an  enterprise.
>
> For example, Data stored on personal drives - with no attempt to show
> version
> history (wiki) or enterprise searchable taking into account authorisation.
> Sole use of email usually  means a dramatic loss institutional memory -
> which
> for most NGOs with high attrition rates (short term volunteers, 2 year
> assignments)  is an issue to address.
>
> The right answer to the online / offline architecture is to invest
> resources
> into getting everyone online and to design our systems for the online
> world.
>
> Offline is a decaying market.
>
> :-)
>
> Peter
>
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michael
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