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In today’s world, email has become a very important communication tool. We all receive many business related emails a day. Some are for direct, private communication between 2 or 3 people, but in some (many ?) cases, emails are sent to a number of persons to share a document, or even worse to submit that document for review / updating.
In this last case, email is probably the most non-efficient tool that we can use to collaborate.

Why ? You may ask. I won’t respond directly, instead I’d like to invite you to watch this funny video that I found on elsua.net, a blog written by Luis Suarez, a Social Software evangelist at IBM.
The video describes how email is often used to share files inside a company, how this is painful when there is some collaboration needed (in this case review and provide feedback on the document) and how it could have been much more faster, easier and effective if some collaboration tools, like Lotus Connection, was used.