Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Email Collaboration and Email Management tool

Email goes beyond being just a communication tool for knowledge workers - it is used heavily for collaborating on various functions and processes by people across industries. People use Email to collaborate on Sales, Projects, Operations, Customer Support, Hiring and practically everything going on in their organizations. This can be attributed to email's simplicity and flexibility as a communication tool that easily lends it to such diverse uses.

This can be extremely problematic too. When collaborating over email with a large number of people for a significant period of time, it’s very easy to get to a point where email can become overwhelming, cluttered and very difficult to manage. This is because email is a very generic tool that lacks the functionality to allow people to do basic collaboration actions like assigning tasks, checking and updating the status on them, and centralizing information in one place so that it can be accessible to everybody.

Email can be greatly improved as a collaboration tool by some feature enhancements. The following is a quick summary of why Grexit is a much better  email collaboration tool for people:


  • A 'Signaling' method: Email lacks the tools to help people assign tasks, or communicate the status on tasks to their team members. All they can do is write about it, and that can lead to a lot of confusion. A way to send such 'signals' like tasks assignments and status on email can be a great addition. This is provided by GrexIt's Shared Labels.

  • Fixing email clutter: Email clutter happens because CC-ing people is the only sharing mechanism available, and when we CC to a large number of people, then the email is nothing more than clutter for people who have no direct, immediate need for the email. GrexIt solves this problem with its Shared Email Repository.

  • Centralizing information: Email inboxes are silos, and there is so much useful information that gets stuck and lost in email inboxes because people cannot look for the information they need beyond their own inbox. GrexIt's email sharing tools solve this problem exhaustively too.

It makes a lot of sense to use Email with a tool like GrexIt which improves its collaboration capabilities. This can go a long way in helping teams work efficiently and be productive while continuing to use the email, which is a tool that they all know how to use and are comfortable with.

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