Comments on: Surprise: No one’s heard of Google Docs

By: Stuart MacDonald

Stuart MacDonald — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 01:25:29 +0000

Heh. "Any" key.

Heh.

;)

By: Stuart MacDonald

Stuart MacDonald — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:25:29 +0000

Heh. "Any" key.

Heh.

;)

By: Great News! Nobody Knows Who You Are! | The Marketing Technology Blog

Great News! Nobody Knows Who You Are! | The Marketing Technology Blog — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 03:37:51 +0000

[...] even know that there is web productivity suites out there. Some folks within the desktop industry tingled with excitement – some called it the death of the Web [...]

By: mathewi

mathewi — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:26:02 +0000

I completely agree, Robb — I've used it the same way myself many
times. It simplifies the collaboration process enormously.

By: Robb Montgomery

Robb Montgomery — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:56:48 +0000

I like the Google docs for collaboration and planning. It is a very simple concept that you have to try – instead of attaching a document and emailing it around (Making lots of copies and stuffing your colleague's in boxes) you instead attach people's e-mail to the document.

It is a new paradigm and will take a while for it to get noticed and adopted to those higher-up the food chain.

For example I just created my first one a few days ago to organize a series of Digital Journalism Seminars in Chicago.

– http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=ddz9stgx_2gpf3…

I invited 17 editors and educators to volunteer to help design the program and I could add or drop more at any time and control their editing privileges.

Previously I would have used my blog, e-mail and a forum thread to do this and it would have taken longer and required more work to track revisions. This is a great tool.