Sunday, August 30, 2009

Distance collaboration

The collaboration on distance was a bit of a new experience for me. I'm used to working in groups where we have to meet in real life and where the bus ride takes longer time than the actual meeting. Creating a conference call worked out good after some chat. The chat function is a very good addition whenever some words miss out or one are about to make a connection on phone and wants to make sure everyone is logged in.

Google docs was fun to work in and see how the group members put in information at the same time. Sometimes it wasn't possible to edit and a popup alert box appeared. Had to write the same information again. We concluded that it would be best to update in an own document and cut and paste to the live doc for best work flow with less misstakes.

2 comments:

  1. I found the revision history very helpful. google saves the document at regular intervals so even if there was a mess up, u could always revert back.

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  2. Alright, so you used it that way. It got sorted just writing it again. Let say we would write a bigger project it would be necessary to rethink so a lot of work wouldn't dissapear.

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