Monday, September 17, 2007

Online Productivity (thing 18)

Online Productivity Tools


Online productivity tools are terrific for collaboration; I have used GoogleDocs to place committee documents (and spreadsheets) online and have them usable for other committee members to add information or change it. I have even used the Discuss feature to chat online with colleagues as we all examined the same document and edited it.


Exploring some of GoogleDocs Publish features lead me to the discovery that, like Zoho, GoogeDocs can be configured to publish to your blog as well as having a feature that allows you to publish your document as a webpage and/or imbed it into another webpage.


Of course, anything you place on a Google server stays there, even after you’ve deleted it from your account, I would think about what you are putting up there. Just like with email, unless you’re paying for a certain level of security and privacy, I wouldn’t put anything up there that I didn’t want public.


Next I’ll look at Zoho.




ETA: I posted this entry through GoogleDocs, but then had to edit it to add tags & the heading.

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