Giving up on email -- a nod to Luis Suarez

After some weeks of vacation in Majuro fixing up the house and working part time over the Internet (at 46.2 kbs), I have been playing catch-up in Honolulu. The catch up is both for research and day-job matters.
In the latter I continue to remind people that if there is something important, phone me rather than email. By default, I have given up on much email with 2,900+ unread. Many more have been read. The ones that do get read are from collaborators who probably could be persuaded to use a wiki if they had a good one, and of course the ones that involve daily crises. Those really could use a good wiki too because one of the biggest problems is determining the precise details about what has been done and in what order.
Not surprisingly the winners in the Computerworld 100 Best Places to Work in IT (June 30/July 7 issue) tend to feature cultures that foster collaboration. See http://blogs.computerworld.com/tennant
With that note, I head back to the commentators listed to the right. I greatly appreciate the time that they take to share their ideas.