Turn Blog Comments into a Webwide Discussion with a Pow. What problems does Google Wave solve? There are countless pundits and other tech gurus describing Google Wave as a disappointment, lately. Most of that seems to come from the fact that nobody seems to get what Wave is for. So they compare it to social media. Is Wave the next Twitter? Nope. I believe this is partly Google’s fault: they released Wave to geeks and hackers and social media folks first. At Woobius, we’ve been working at resolving the problems with email for some time. What’s the problem with email, anyway? To most geeks, the main problem with email is spam. But then again, most geeks don’t do all that much document-based collaboration, by email or otherwise. In your average corporate environment, though, this happens all the time. So what are the problems with email in a corporate environment, and what does Wave do to address them?
Problem 1: Collaborating on a piece of text It’s hard to use email like you would use, say, Etherpad – to collaborate on a document that later needs to be sent out. Conclusion. Online Office, Word Processor, Spreadsheet, Presentation, CRM an. Online beta. Support. Collaborative Writing Tools And Technology: A Mini-Guide. Collaborative writing tools are those technologies that facilitate the editing and reviewing of a text document by multiple individuals either in real-time or asynchronously. Online, web-based collaborative writing tools offer great flexibility and usefulness in learning groups and educational settings as they provide an easy mean to generate text exercises, research reports and other writing assignments in a full collaborative fashion.
Collaborative writing tools can vary a great deal and can range from the simplicity of wiki system to more advanced systems. Basic features include the typical formatting and editing facilities of a standard word processor with the addition of live chat, live markup and annotation, co-editing, version tracking and more. Google itself has recently entered this field with its Google Docs, a fully-web based collaborative writing tool formely known as Writely. Here are more details about collaborative writing: Web-based Collaborative Writing tools Zoho Writer. Collaboration techniques - so many choices — Groupings.
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