This is fascinating, and accurately represents my experiences working for municipal governments and nonprofits. Working at a startup is an incredible improvement, just because everyone here already knows the tools and the ways they can be used to save time and eliminate duplicative communication. In less tech-savvy businesses, I've spent so much time introducing my peers and colleagues to using social media and collaborative tools (Doodle, for example) that it would probably have been easier to call them in the first place.

I'm glad to be in an environment (at OpenSesame) now where so much less time is wasted on useless communication, but I certainly still don't have good answers on how to make that standard practice across a variety of types of work environments.