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| "share your ideas" by Britta Bohlinger taken from flickr |
For thing #12 we've been asked to use Google docs for sharing documents.I've already been using google docs for a while with lesser or greater success depending on the task. The academic liaison team have their own profile pages created in google docs which I've been using to share and direct people to presentations, documents and delicious tags - I was pleasantly surprised at how easily it copes with powerpoint presentations - both uploading and displaying them.
I've also been using spreadsheets in google docs to share our list of books for deletion in preparation for our library refurbishment and to track the progress of the project. Where I think google docs becomes more problematic is when you are writing directly into to google docs (e.g. a word document), it can be incredibly slow and frustrating to respond - the solution seems to write in word and cut and paste or upload again into google docs.
So sharing is good - working directly in google docs is not so good.
Who knows what Alfresco will prove to be like and whether it will replace google docs?
