From: Eli Caul wrote:
I love this BB, and I am one of those that has never had a Facebook or Twitter account. I hope that the folks in the know remember that not everyone uses Social Media, and post info where the rest of us can get at is as well.
This is a valid point.
At the same time, there are often compromise positions that can be taken. For example, Twitter can entirely be used to follow a team's updates simply by pointing your web browser to the URL for that team's account. You don't have to have a Twitter account, or logon, or anything. Instant status updates are literally what Twitter is designed for.
The problem with email lists is that email, despite its reputation today (thanks to the hard work of hundreds of thousands of engineers and architects), is *NOT GUARANTEED* to be instantaneous in delivery -- or, even, to guarantee delivery at all. I can't tell you how many messages from this very list I've received with 1-2 days of delay or more, or find them squirreled away in Junk Mail for whatever reason. I'm a professional email architect, I practically live on my computer, and there's nothing I can do about these delays and reroutes.
Some teams want the overhead of using multiple communication methods. Some don't. It's a choice of what is the most bang for the buck.
Every choice we make has consequences. Sometimes it is not possible to have it all.
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