I communicate a lot with someone I do most of my web projects with – we call eachother at least once a day but often more, we mail eachother anywhere between 1 and 25 mails per day and than we are in almost constant contact through gtalk/jabber. You might call it an illness, but that's besides the subject.
Today when we were discussing s quick move on the net, the idea popped up in my head to start communicating through a dedicated blog, avoiding the need to call eachother a spammer. Now I have given this a little thought, and I have to say, it is not even such a bad idea. Many blog hosts such as blogger.com, wordpress.com and vox.com offer the option of a private blog that can only be read by a selected audience.
Advantages are in archiving – you can keep all commincation easy. Attachments are okay and you can use the comment system for a fullblown discussion. What do you think ? Would it work ?
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Current solutions for (on-line) collaboration are still far from perfect. Besides a good peer-communication system (chat+status control+history), you will need the posibility to work together on documents and funnel communication to external parties. A blog could do it, but will always feel like a hack.
At this moment I prefer to use several tools for each job: Campfire for peer communication, MediaWiki for working on documents and blogs+e-mail for communication with others.
For each option, various solutions are available, but there is no good product yet that includes all parts.