January 18 - more with GoogleDocs

I love GoogleDocs.

I checked out the 100 tips and found the ones relating to Presentations to be the most helpful. Points 64 - syncing with Office, 66 - using Googledocs from my Mobile, and 74 - staging the revelation of bullet points in a presentation - were the ones which I found most useful.

One of the chief criticisms I've had of using GoogleDocs is that sometimes it just won't do what Office products can do ..... obviously changes since its inception mean that now it quite often can and the capability for fuller integration with Office products is great.

At a time when I moved from Tamworth to Grafton I found GoogleDocs to be a complete life saver in so far as it enabled me to continue to be involved in state-wide activities despite my increased remoteness from activity points - planning for a conference, seminar, meeting, etc; writing collaborative presentations/documents; preparing my own presentations which could then be shared for comment/editing before finalisation; minutes for meetings.

I love GoogleDocs.

Week 11 - GoogleDocs vs Zoho

I like both these applications. I guess I'm a bit biased towards GoogleDocs as I've used it a lot more than Zoho but I do like the visual advancements of Zoho over GoogleDocs (colour shading of backgrounds, etc and generally the range of toolbar options). I have used GoogleDocs in meetings etc and for that purpose it works well. Were I to be creating a more visual document I'd probably prefer to use Zoho. Though in the long run I will probably use GoogleDocs over Zoho as access is easier (straight from Blogger /My Account) and I tend to use it more already . I'm glad I had the option to try it though.

Week 11 - online applications and tools - GoogleDocs

I like GoogleDocs & GoogleSpreadsheets. I use them so their applications for me are obvious. Being such a long way from NSL and many other libraries GoogleDocs is a great way for me to participate in meetings online, and collaborate in writing submissions and other material (without incurring travel expenses and the like). I can restrict my shared documents to viewers only or open them out to other collaborators who can also edit them. Different versions can be saved and by using coloured text all collaborators can quickly see who did what edit and how it fits overall. It's like having a draft document that everyone writes and from all the edits and suggestions a final document is created. I'm really looking forward to using this tool in some upcoming collaborations with some far-flung colleagues. It should be fun, but more than that it furthers the whole concept of collaboration and inspires each and every edit to be more than the last.