Recently, I read this article by Mick Lodder about the development of e-mail on Emerce and I agree with his statement that e-mail is slowly being replaced by sending messages/ instant messaging (IM) in social networks (‘E-mail is dead, long live e-mail’), turning an e-mail address into an online ID used to establish online connections. But it also triggered some more ideas on the subject. Mick Lodder only refers to social media taking over in the area of personal/ private communication, and I think that – after that – it will also move into the area of internal communication within organisations.

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