More on collaboration

Our team met recently via Elluminate to discuss the Project presentation for Converge 10.
Our content for this had come together seriously quickly due in no small part to use of a web based collaborative word processing tool (in our case Google Docs).

Looking back on what we had written, we agreed there was a need to shift the focus of the presentation to some extent, away from emphasis on the platform for our resource Libguides, to look more closely at the avatar element of our guide as well as the software used to make it, CodeBaby. This meant considerable reorganisation of times and people's roles in the presentation itself, a re-write of our original plan.

At GippsTAFE, the library team uses Google Docs regularly for collaboratively developing reports, research, meeting agendas and (soon) policy. So I am pretty familiar with seeing how a document builds and changes.
But this is the first time I have collaborated on a document during a meeting. In one intense 45 minutes, changes flitted all over the document, sentences gone and new ones unfolding, times and names changing and then changing again. I could see who was entering what data, so knew who to direct questions to.
By meeting end, the rewrite was done and agreed on. Fantastic!

We liked this so much we are going to try developing slides for the presentation in the same way.