How You Can Use Google Wave For Your Business
Posted by Abdul Vasi on 19 Feb 2010 at 5:38 pm | Tagged as:
Google wave provides a unique advantage to web publishing.
It is a collaborative tool, which means that multiple people can co-author a particular document. This ensures that content is being modified in real time, and by multiple authors, each contributing to it with their own specific input.
Most other web-authoring tools do not allow multiple users to collaborate in real time the way Google wave does. In an organization, there are often situations where it is not possible for a group of people to be present in the same place at the same time. Google wave fills this gap by allowing users to independently edit and view documents at any time, and even supports simultaneous updation of a document by multiple people at the same time. Not only does this mean that online collaborative editing is location independent, it is also time independent.
Features of Google wave that help Businesses:
Playback:With its ‘playback’ feature, a wave can be analyzed and played back so that it becomes clear which user has added which detail to a document, or what content or idea lead to the creation of other content etc.
Plugins:Plugins allow users to import graphs, charts, and use any part of the wave as a Google document.
This results in excellent versatility when it comes to creating complex documents.
Real-Time Editing:Because Google wave allows real time editing, this saves a lot of time, that businesses usually spend sending e-mails back and forth, recommending corrections, adding attachments etc.
There is only one copy of the document, and all participants just need to edit that copy.
Automatic versioning:
At any point of time, using the timeline feature, the wave can be rewound to a previous version.All states of the document are saved and are available at all times, in effect functioning like a version management system, allowing you to retrieve any version you require.
