Using channels other than email to communicte with colleagues and other contacts serves many purposes, including task coordiantion, information exchange, social bonding, team building, and knowledge capture.

In our evolving connected age moving away from email has its strengths.  Younger generations find it outmoded and old-fashioned.  Junk, viruses, and scams can make it unplesant.    New channels and platforms, like instant messaging and social networking, suit collaboration and social communities better.

INSTANT MESSAGING

An excellent replacment for those frequent informal interactions that you'd have with workmates if you were in the same office. eSuiteTools private messaging a core feature of the Content Management System offeres defined users the ability to send private messages to one another easily with this intuitive messaging interface.

PRIVATE MESSAGING

Private messaging is private member-to-member communication that exists solely inside community. Use private messages to communicate with other community members conveniently, keeping your personal email address private. Want to know more?

When you'd like to communicate with a member one-on-one, send a private message. When you'd like to critique or create dialogue about a member's content, post a comment. Private messaging helps build private relationships, and commenting benefits the entire community.

BROADCAST MESSAGING

REAL-TIME CHAT

The primary use of a chat room is to share information via text with a group of other users. 

Chat is a way of communicating by sending messages to people in the same chat-room in real-time.  The oldest form of true chat rooms are the text-based variety. The popularity of these kinds of chat rooms has waned over the years, however eSuiteTools incorporates chat in a variety of useful avenues.