Ok, show of hands – how many of you have tried to move off of email and onto a more functional platform-based communication tool at work?  Wow, that’s a lot of hands.

How many have actually succeeded?  Yeah, that’s what I thought.  Not so many.

Like Michael Corleone said, “Just when I thought I was out… they pull me back in!”

It’s pretty widely acknowledged that email is like kryptonite to collaboration.  Conversations are not intuitively threaded, information gets buried in each user’s personal data repository and new additions to conversations have no contextual awareness.  Argh.  Someday we’ll find the silver bullet that will kill that productivity-sucking demon, but for now it’s harder to kick than heroin.

Which is why it’s so cool that someone has figured out a way to add a lot of the platform benefits to email, at least at a personal level.  cc:Betty has a solution that automagically accumulates and organises information contextually as you email.  There are no downloads and the front end looks pretty spiffy.

If you can’t quit email cold-turkey, maybe ccBetty is the methadone you need to help tame the email monkey that’s clinging to your back.

What do you think?