E-Mail Is So Five Minutes Ago

That might be going a bit too far as, let’s face it, email isn’t going away. But it’s good to see companies starting to innovate with other technologies, including blogs, to create more efficient workplaces and workgroups. Business Week does a good job summarizing the more recent use of collaborative tools such as blogs and wikis to allow co-workers to communicate with each other, edit projects in real-time in a central location and in general help workers spend less time in their inbox and more time being productive.