GigaOM Network: GigaOM | Earth2Tech | jkOnTheRun | NewTeeVee | OStatic | TheAppleBlog | WebWorkerDaily | Jobs Live Events | About | Contact Web Worker Daily Home Archives About Contact Us 3 Ways to Edit Documents Collaboratively September 1st, 2008 (11:00am) Mike Gunderloy 11 Comments Working on the Web means that it’s easy to reach out to collaborators - but what then?

It keeps conversations neatly organized in threads while you can attach documents/screen shots to these. Tags: Uncategorized collaboration collaborative systems design emotional Facebook Facebook Inc Farmville goals motivation service design tasks user needs workflo We use Basecamp to manage projects. It’s great for creating tasks and milestones that can be assigned to those responsible.

This might be the classic part of Knowledge Management; the collection, storage, and distribution of information, documents, books, and intellectual property. Instead of information management, we could also call it document management and library management. knowledge libraries in large corporations that allow global access to documents across departments and subsidiaries We welcome Tim Wieringa as a guest blogger to Green Chameleon. Since Since 1999, my work has been related to Knowledge Management (KM).

For a product which does enterprise document and content management (including metadata and taxonomy handling) badly in its native state, and collaboration only in a mediocre fashion compared to competitors, it’s not the best deal for knowledge managers to have to grapple with. integrating windows explorer with Sharepoint document libraries, so that you can share files via Sharepoint, weaning users off the jungle of badly managed shared folders giving drag and drop ability to reorganise document library folders in Sharepoint (I hope there’s some governance process around

If you need to collaborate on a document with someone, you can simply email a Word document back and forth, but that can get messy as it’s hard to keep track of the various versions of the document moving around. Or you could use an online document collaboration tool, like Google Docs, Show Document or doingText . Written by Simon Mackie . Unfortunately, none of the available online tools tend to have a complete feature set.

Following on from my post about co-authoring in Word 2010 , Joseph from Microsoft recent 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 scenarios and enable interesting new ways for people to work together around spreadsheets. Tags: Document Co-Authoring SharePoin There are still times when locking a file for exclusive access is the desired behavior, and SharePoint enables that through checkout. I

Let's take document co-authoring as an example. I'd argue for high-quality feedback from reviewers, so the document can be improved. In an "attach document to email and distribute it for feedback" approach, because none of the reviewers can see what the others have already said, they have to make an independent decision, and give independent feedback. In a more open approach Social scientists report that if group members are told or exposed to what the other people in the group think about an issue, there is a greater likelihood that subsequent people in the group will conform their thinking.

Microsoft believes SharePoint scales to meet as narrow or broad a view an organization has on social computing, you can use it in a very classic way - no MySite etc - keep with basic document libraries, forums, workspaces - or - you can use blogs, wikis, profiles, etc - all in one platform. Note Board emulates Facebook Wall type interface - can have Note Board on documents, sites, not just "wall". Notes from Christian Finn, Director, Social Computing 13 sessions in "social track"

They live in a pile of documents, with only a personal typewriter, calendar, mail, flip chart and calculator as tools for working with others. Formal workflows don’t work. Making sure the trains run on time is big business and things like social workflows and much easier coordination of work can make big gains for companies. Go Big Always Search Archives Anatomy of the Enterprise Octopus Some of you may have read the original Enterprise Octopus post , which introduced the icon and explained the difference between The Enterprise Octopus (people-centric work) and The Enterprise Filing Cabinet (file-centric work).

The project made use of Headshifts existing framework for conducting extensive reviews of user behaviour, staff workflows and technical infrastructure, as described in the case study of a similar piece of work we did for the BBC. The project included extensive research and analysis of existing customer community building activities already undertaken by the client, including: a thorough document gathering and review interviews with over a dozen members of staff, ranging from those engaged in day-to-day community management activities to senior stakeholders in a range of business