Well, I finally got my long anticipated invite to Google Wave. The anticipation was more fun than the application…….don’t get me wrong, I think the application has great potential. The key for me is connecting with people that I actually want to share information with.
I am currently working on a project that could really use a ‘Google Wave’ or ‘Microsoft Groove’ solution. My team has folks attempting to collaborate from several locations in the USA, Sweden and Switzerland. The real issue in the corporate world is that security is such a high priority, we really suffer when attempting to collaborate. We have weekly conference calls together with numerous emails being exchanged.
Microsoft Groove was ‘out’ in our case as it is not part of our ‘corporately approved’ software package. Had I been issued my Google Wave invite sooner, I suspect we would have test driven the software. The problem now is that we are in a critical phase and under great time restraints and do not have the time to beta-test Google Wave without the risk of missing our deadline.
I did tinker with Wave a bit last night. I’m still curious about bringing in documents and working on them together. It seems easy enough to have a conversation and drag pictures into a wave. I’d like to see Wave offer the ability to open a PPT presentation (assuming all parties had MS PPT installed on their machines) and modify together as a team, while still maintaining the ability to chat etc.
I’ll definitely report back on this topic frequently as I work through my own learning curve and explore the features in greater detail.
Your thoughts?
kml
2009
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