5 Reasons Why You Should Stop Using Email to Collaborate

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You won't be able to easily find it when you need it the most. Collaboration is a discussion over a document. When you use email to collaborate, all the discussion gets stored and associated either in the inbox or a sub folder of the inbox. It does not get associated with the document being discussed.

You won't remember the reason why decisions were made. Collaboration is what the group does when a decision is needed but cannot be easily made. In collaboration, the group discusses the need for the decision, the various alternatives, and their strengths and weaknesses. Through consensus building, the group arrives at a decision in order to move forward. That discussion needs to stay archived with what was being discussed because someday someone is going to ask why ...

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