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More on Online Docs
Jordy has a nice write-up of last week’s CTO Breakfast on his blog. He concentrates and adds to the discussion of online word processing and spreadsheet tools.
I think online doc sharing just hasn’t reached a critical mass yet. It’s too new, and too early in the product life cycle, especially when other (albeit clumsy) solutions are already in place. I had the hardest time getting my classmates to use a wiki for collaborative writing, and that was only a year ago. I’m sure that some of them will use them in the workplace or on social networks now that they’ve tried it out, but it was a hard transition. A true WYSIWYG editor would have helped to level the learning curve a little, but long years of editing and forwarding email attachments have proven hard to shake, despite being a clearly inferior way to collaborate. But wiki, Google docs, and other newish collaboration software will be huge in no time. Just give the early adopters (geeks and nerds) some time to do their thing.From Jordy Blog » Blog Archive » CTO Breakfast: October 2006
Referenced Tue Oct 31 2006 09:31:24 GMT-0700 (MST)
Posted by windley on October 31, 2006 9:32 AM
Comment from Jeff Harmon at November 2, 2006 9:47 AM
I guess I am an early adopter (geeks and nerds), or I am becoming an early adopter or we are already past the early adopters stage. Recently I sent out a mass email to over 200 class members at my religion class at BYU. The email briefly explained Google Docs and then invited anyone who wanted to participate to reply to me email and I would invite to a set of notes for class collaboration. Within 24 hours I had already filled up the 50 possible spots that Writely (now Google Docs) allows. I had at least 40 more emails asking to be a part of the project.
The class is a completely tested and graded on class notes. I am certain the 50 of us have the best notes in the class, hands down. It will be interesting to see how the GPA of the 50 Googlers compares to the other 150 students. I will keep you updated.
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