Aside from Google Docs, do any of these products offer integration with your domain?
Domain Superstar
· 9 months ago
You can chat within Google Spreadsheets incidentally. I've often wondered why Google just doesn't add it to Docs too.
S!ick
· 9 months ago
Thanks for the info about EtherPad! It's a GREAT tool...
Brian Campbell
· 9 months ago
Out of the 5 listed above, I'm only using google docs. Thanks for the great list.
Louise Rasho
· 9 months ago
Hi there Doriano. I work on the Microsoft Office Live service and just wanted to point out a couple of things. It is in fact a totally free service. There's no credit card required and you don't have to have Microsoft Office to use it. You can upload any type of file - pictures, PDFs, whatever you like, and share these files with others. Now it does integrate really well with Microsoft Office and makes sharing files between Office users really seamless, but again you don't have to have Microsoft Office to use it. Here's a demo http://tinyurl.com/bg5xdf
Yuan Yu
· 9 months ago
Thanks, Doriano. I am using google docs more.
Benjamin Wright
· 9 months ago
Collaborative software environments like Live Office, Acrobat.com, Textflow, Zimbra and Zoho can create oceans of records on business interactions and negotiations. Those records can be fodder for e-discovery in a lawsuit. An issue businesses will face is whether to preserve those records under their record retention policies. --Ben
Shahab
· 9 months ago
With web conferencing software becoming so popular - i.e. gotomeeting, hypermeeting.com etc. if you already using such a service, you can take advantage of real time document collaboration with those tools too. What I like about this approach is it lets me keep working with MS Excel or Word. HyperMeeting a good choice too becuase it is integrated with HyperOffice. So once you are done collaborating you can manage permissions and work with web folders with a robust document management system
Michael Kerres
· 9 months ago
just a small remark on:
>Google doesn’t offer which is the ability to make any document public.
you CAN (easily) share a doc as public webpage in Googls Docs with a unique URL.
Harv
· 9 months ago
I've found that eXpresso http://www.expressocorp.com/ is superior to Google for Excel spreadsheet collaboration because they keep files in Microsoft Office formats. I tried Google and liked it, but couldn't get my business partners that I collaborate with to switch. People that have used Office for many years love it (especially Excel) and can't abandon it. I still use Google Docs for some personal things, but it is hard to collaborate with business users that have Office files central to their business. Currently eXpresso works only on Excel files, but as a user of eXpresso I was informed via email that they will be releasing support for Word and PowerPoint files soon. That will be very useful to me.
Harv
Alison Law
· 9 months ago
Found this article useful, although I'm still looking for a tool that will allow me to group docs in folders and share with others. I wanted to do this with Google Docs, but right now you can only share individuals documents. Not helpful when you have numerous documents.
Kirtis Hill
· 7 months ago
Our company has started using Box.net and it has gotten really positive feedback. It has the ability to create and share folders. Very easy to use and I like the ability to organize into folders.
Take a look at http://www.showdocument.com It allows you to upload any document and immediately review it together with anyone in real-time, all the participants in the session see each others' drawing, highlights, etc.
Louis Marascio
· 7 months ago
Collaborative document review, not editing just review, is painful thing. Tools not only need to have parity with their source content but they also have to innovate and give the author and collaborators a way to be more productive than if they stayed in their authoring tool. We wrote a blog post about this just today, check it out: http://blog.lugiron.com/2009/04/manually-mergin....
Jonathan Joyce
· 7 months ago
http://colaab.com is a great online app for realtime collaboration and review over a wide range of resources, including video, office documents, PDFs, web pages and HUGE images. For instance have a look at this 170Mb file: http://app.colaab.com/R/19a73c31-00b9-4be2-bfe5...
Annie Lam
· 6 months ago
Take a look at www.metoshow.com I guess this is a new application (as I havent heard of it before :p). Fast, easy to use. The best thing is it doesnt require installation and I can share doc with my partners and clients.
These are great but the names are all wrong - I'm thinking about selling iCoCreate.com - which is the PERFECT collaboration name for the net... but I'm not selling just to be selling - I want to sell to an end-user (and no, a premium domain like iCoCreate.com isn't cheap). But I like these tools.
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hypermeeting.com etc. if you already using such a service, you can take
advantage of real time document collaboration with those tools too. What I like
about this approach is it lets me keep working with MS Excel or Word.
HyperMeeting a good choice too becuase it is integrated with HyperOffice.
So once you are done collaborating you can manage permissions and work with
web folders with a robust document management system
>Google doesn’t offer which is the ability to make any document public.
you CAN (easily) share a doc as public webpage in Googls Docs with a unique URL.
Harv
It allows you to upload any document and immediately review it together with anyone in real-time,
all the participants in the session see each others' drawing, highlights, etc.
I guess this is a new application (as I havent heard of it before :p). Fast, easy to use. The best thing is it doesnt require installation and I can share doc with my partners and clients.
It's really great and useful.