This Thing is focusing on online tools for collaboration - looking specifically at Google Docs, Dropbox and Wikis.
Firstly, Google docs. As a bit of a Google acolyte, I'm already using Google Docs (now having an Android phone this love of all things Google is likely to only get worse...). In my role on the CoFHE LASEC Committee, we use Google Docs for the work that we are collaborating on, and I've found that they are really useful and allow everyone to edit whenever and wherever they are on the internet. I am also using Google Docs to store my own documents that I want to access and edit at work and home - without ending up with different versions of the same document with different updates.
As I'm already sold on Google Docs, I'm not really sure what else using Dropbox adds. I'll keep an eye out to see how it develops, but won't be switching across to it yet.
Onto Wikis - we've recently experimented with using a wiki for a service development at work. As it is not always possible for the whole team to sit down together and discuss something, being able to access and edit the same thing was a real advantage.
CoFHE - Colleges of Further and Higher Education
LASEC - London and South East Circle
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