While it is true that social media today has greater longevity than traditional modalities of collaboration such as phone calls, email, IM, and even in person meetings it is also true that the vast majority of collaboration at any workplace takes place using those means because they are easy to use. Endless scheduled meetings required to get everyone on the same page are drudgery but from a modality perspective it is often far easier to talk with people in person to have rich interactions (and get work done) than it is to have lengthy, non-real-time back and forths via message postings on an activity stream.
The technology exists to enable the collaboration space to evolve enabling collaboration using any of the modalities you mention- but adding longevity, push and pull models, and the creation of relationships to systems of record for each for each in a unified manner. Being able to combine these methods together with new modalities that are real-time and simultaneous is something achievable and valuable for the social enterprise.
Simple examples include having a phone or video call that is recorded, transcribed, and annotated (at any point), or being able to chat in real-time while collaborating on a document and having the full communication persisted and available in a social context. For in person interactions, taking a picture of a whiteboard or recording a voice memo on a mobile device and posting it to a shared and conversation captures knowledge and provides the benefits you describe.
My point in sum is that technology should provide the same longevity to all collaboration, whatever the modality.
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