E-Mail

Internal or "group" email enables staff in the office to communicate with each other quickly and effectively. Group email applications also provide capabilities for contact management, scheduling and task assignment. Designated contact lists can be shared by the whole organization instead of duplicated on each person's own rolodex; group events can be scheduled on shared calendars accessible by the entire staff or appropriate groups. Equally important is a network's ability to provide a simple organization-wide conduit for Internet email, so that the staff can send and receive email with recipients outside of the organization as easily as they do with fellow staff members. Where appropriate, attaching documents to Internet email is dramatically faster, cheaper and easier than faxing them.