Google Wave's Massive Potential for Business Users. Howard Greenstein is a Social Media Strategy and Marketing consultant, and President of the Harbrooke Group.
He’s also a national board member of Social Media Club. Google Wave is an innovative new way for people to communicate and collaborate. But as Gina Tripani, author of The Complete Guide To Google Wave, noted in her recent keynote at the recent Web 2.0 Expo in New York, Wave is designed for power users. Wave is hard. There are a lot of features, all bundled together, and it can be intimidating for anyone to just look at it and decide “this is a great project management tool” or “this is the way we’re going to manage our notes about the proposal.” But taking the time to understand Wave and how it works might be a worthwhile investment for business users.
One App to Rule Them All Wave is already being used for projects and collaboration among many small groups and organizations around the world, in large part because of its strength in combining familiar communication platforms. How Google Wave could transform journalism. Google Wave lets users collaborate live on documents.
The tech world is awash with excitement for today's scheduled release of 100,000 invitations to preview Google Wave. Seems like everyone is buzzing about how the collaborative Web tool will revolutionize how we do business, organize parties, manage projects with friends, cheat on homework and market brands (trust us, we've seen the news releases, plural). The term "Google Wave" has been on Twitter's top-trending list all day. For the last two months, while we've been testing the Google Wave developer preview, we have been talking amongst ourselves about how this thing could change (or add to) what we do. So, here's a list of a few wild ideas we had for using Wave. Collaborative reporting: You may notice that double bylines aren't very common. The process usually involves one reporter talking to and researching a few things and another following a different set of sources and finally combining their findings toward the end.
The Ultimate Google Wave Guide for Students: 100 Tips, Tools, and Tricks - VIP Virtual Solutions's posterous. Google Uses Educause Meeting as Focus Group for Wave. Denver — A panel of Google programmers wearing green T-shirts talked last night about the company’s newest product — called Wave — but it was clear that they had come here to learn a few things about education. Wave is a new kind of communication and collaboration service that is so hard to explain that the company usually points people to an hour-and-a-half video to explain how it works. It essentially combines several existing services in one interface — chat, e-mail, word processing, video and photo sharing, and more. At one point, a college leader asked the panel from Google if Wave would be compatible with IMS Global standards, which helps education software from various vendors work together.
“What’s IMS?” Said Anna-Christina Douglas, a Google product-marketing manager. Much of the discussion focused on what kinds of things Wave could do to help in the teaching process. Return to Top.