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Re: 5 Ways to Collaborate on Documents Online in Real Time

Tanya Karchevskaya — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:27:19 -0000

You can also check tool for collaboration online.
It's really great and useful.

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Annie Lam — Wed, 13 May 2009 22:34:01 -0000

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.

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Kirtis Hill — Sun, 03 May 2009 21:20:03 -0000

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.

Re: 5 Ways to Collaborate on Documents Online in Real Time

Jonathan Joyce — Sun, 03 May 2009 18:54:04 -0000

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/19a...

Re: 5 Ways to Collaborate on Documents Online in Real Time

Louis Marascio — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:02:35 -0000

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/200....

Re: 5 Ways to Collaborate on Documents Online in Real Time

Josh — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 04:17:10 -0000

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.

Re: 5 Ways to Collaborate on Documents Online in Real Time

Hüseyin Dinç — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:52:39 -0000

Thanks,Doriano.I am using google docs more.

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Guest — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:52:06 -0000

See also OpenGoo for an open-source option: http://opengoo.org

Re: 5 Ways to Collaborate on Documents Online in Real Time

Alison Law — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:11:55 -0000

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.

Re: 5 Ways to Collaborate on Documents Online in Real Time

Harv — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:21:47 -0000

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

Re: 5 Ways to Collaborate on Documents Online in Real Time

Michael Kerres — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:45:36 -0000

just a small remark on:

>Google doesnâ€™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.

Re: 5 Ways to Collaborate on Documents Online in Real Time

Shahab — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 23:36:03 -0000

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

Re: 5 Ways to Collaborate on Documents Online in Real Time

Yuan Yu — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:56:01 -0000

Thanks, Doriano. I am using google docs more.

Re: 5 Ways to Collaborate on Documents Online in Real Time

Louise Rasho — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 12:39:53 -0000

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

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Brian Campbell — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 08:21:51 -0000

Out of the 5 listed above, I'm only using google docs. Thanks for the great list.

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S!ick — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 01:09:30 -0000

Thanks for the info about EtherPad! It's a GREAT tool...

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Paul — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 00:30:05 -0000

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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Domain Superstar — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 21:25:32 -0000

You can chat within Google Spreadsheets incidentally. I've often wondered why Google just doesn't add it to Docs too.

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Adam — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 20:48:04 -0000

Aside from Google Docs, do any of these products offer integration with your domain?

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Walter — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 20:33:54 -0000

I like SubEthaEdit (http://www.codingmonkeys.de... and Coda (http://www.panic.com/coda/), which has the SubEtha enginge built in. Perfect to collaborate on documents and source code.

Re: 5 Ways to Collaborate on Documents Online in Real Time

Silona — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 20:24:25 -0000

you can make a google doc public - the url is just ugly.

Re: 5 Ways to Collaborate on Documents Online in Real Time

Karmen — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 20:20:08 -0000

Cool tools! Have you heard of Buzzword? Adobe's new doc sharing tool. Still in beta, but great stuff! https://buzzword.acrobat.co...