If you want to have some fun, in an echo chamber, geeky sort of way, tell Luis Suarez that email is critical and unavoidable. Be prepared for a wonderful rant. I tried this out yesterday upon arriving at the Enterprise 2.0 conference.
What we ended up talking about was the tired old model of email as huge content dumping ground. Of course this could lead to a long discussion about the evolution of email...but that is another topic. What interests me is the implied concept that content is no longer king, the network is.
More and more I see that people are going to their trusted network for information as opposed to straight search. You see it when some one posts a question on Twitter or LinkedIN. You see it when some one does do a traditional search only to find the person or people that are knowledgable on the topic and skip actuallly reading the content itself.
If we believe in this premise, that content is the only the crown prince and the network is what really matters, the way we define, design, and deploy processes and systems will fundamentally change from the way we have been working.