Following on from my post about co-authoring in Word 2010, Joseph from Microsoft recently published the Excel equivalent: Collaborative Editing Using Excel Web App. “The goal of the collaboration work we did in Excel Web App was to remove the “locked file” experience from users’ workflow in collaborative […]
I have been reading up on the 2010 wave of new products from Microsoft. Co-authoring documents is a particular interest of mine, and I read / digested / thought about this blog post from Jonathan: Co-authoring (i.e. Simultaneous Editing) in Word 2010 … “With our understanding how authors […]
I’ve known about the TimeBridge meeting scheduling service since a quiet off-the-record conversation at the Collaborative Technologies Conference in June 2005 in New York, but it’s been a while since I looked at what the company is up to. As with the other meeting scheduling services I’ve written […]
Doodle is an online polling / survey-type service that can be used for scheduling meetings and events. The basic idea is that you create a poll that specifies when you can meet (days and times), and then you ask other people when they could come to your meeting […]
I’ve been playing with Tungle this afternoon, to see how it handles setting up meetings between more than two people. Here’s the basic difference: – with a two person meeting, the meeting initiator states when they could meet, and the other person accepts one of those times, or […]
This is the fifth post on TextFlow in my research into collaborative document co-authoring products and services. Sharing a Document With Others One of the main reasons for using TextFlow is to gain a better way of working on documents with other people. Here’s how it works: Mark […]
I have been using Tungle to schedule meetings with various people during the past couple of weeks (see Introducing Tungle Accelerate). On the whole, it does what it says it will do — makes the scheduling of meetings easier. Particularly for multi-time zone meetings, and where meetings can […]
This is the fourth post on TextFlow in my research into collaborative document co-authoring products and services. Importing a Document There is a second way to get a document into TextFlow, and that is to import a Microsoft Word file (.DOC or .DOCX) or .RTF file. In this […]
This is the third post on TextFlow in my research into collaborative document co-authoring products and services. Creating a New Document Any document sharing or co-authoring episode begins with creating the first draft. Someone — one party in the group — has to click “New” within the tool […]
This is the second post on TextFlow in my research into collaborative document co-authoring products and services. For the first, see TextFlow: Overview. Yesterday I signed up for a TextFlow account. To signup, you have to “Buy” either the Professional Edition ($99 per year) or the Personal Edition […]
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