Next-Generation Team Communications - A Glimpse of the Future
10 February 2011 Tweet With my recent good experience using Many Moon, the Superbowl advertising blitz by Chatter, and the unveiling of the well-funded Asana, we have reaching the tipping point for the use of collaboration tools. And I think we have glimpsed the likely look and feel of the next generation of tool -- which combines the short-text sharing of social media with the tracking of projects, tasks, file-sharing, and discussions.
It is way too early to pick a winner from this crowd, and it is more likely that the tools market will remain fragmented and each of us will use different tools for each of the different projects and teams we work with. At the same time, we can predict that the prevalent style of project communications via sharing Microsoft Office documents by email is coming to an end. These new tools have some elements in common and help us see how project communications will work in the near future:
