Collaboration

I've used Google docs when working on a group project at school. Rather than emailing a doc back and forth for revisions among the group, it was much easier to have everyone access it online.

When I worked in the Virtual Branch Workgroup in technology, the group also used it to prepare several docs for the very same reason. Members of the group were spread throughout all the branches, and it was an easy way for members to work collectively on our documents without repeated emails or in-person meetings.

Wiki as Collaboration Tool

I had to do a presentation recently with a colleague in my Rutgers class on library management. We could have done a PowerPoint presentation, but since all of our classes are online, this would have necessitated emailing the PPT file back-and-forth as each of us made our contributions to it.

Instead we chose to do a wiki. Each "slide" was done as another page in the wiki. My partner was able to go in anytime and make additions or deletions, and so was I. No need to email a file every time changes were made.

For the actual class presentation, the URL for the wiki & the key were emailed to the rest of the class and instructor. The wiki made for both easy collaboration during its creation, and easy viewing for the rest of the class. Mo messy downloads of files!