The Essential Collaborative Writing Toolkit

A framework for evaluating the new collaborative writing environments

Collaborative writings importance

Collaborative writings importance

The collaborative writing toolkit

The Fundamentals satisfactorily simulates the most common word processing applications technically agnostic free of geographic and temporal constraints Role Control control of collaborators permissions protects collaborators privacy Version Control reliably maintains a unique version of the collaborators document at all times tracks the documents development, including who made changes and highlighting differences between the text of various versions of the document Synchroneity Awareness Communication email commenting chat

The Fundamentals
satisfactorily simulates the most common word processing applications technically agnostic free of geographic and temporal constraints

The Fundamentals
Satisfactorily Simulates Common Word Processing Applications

Google Documents Interface

The Fundamentals
Technically Agnostic

Google Documents Compatibility Chart

The Fundamentals
Free of Geographic and Temporal Constraints

Role Control
Control of Collaborators Permissions

Google Documents Role Control Screen

Version Control
Fidelity of the working document Keeping track of earlier versions of a document

Google Documents Document History Screen

Synchroneity

Collaborators writing together in real-time in Google Documents

Awareness

Various ways awareness is imparted to collaborators in Google Documents

Communication
Email

Communication
Commenting

Sidebar annotations in Google Documents

Communication
Chat

Chat feature in Google Documents

The collaborative writing toolkit

The Fundamentals satisfactorily simulates the most common word processing applications technically agnostic free of geographic and temporal constraints Role Control control of collaborators permissions protects collaborators privacy Version Control reliably maintains a unique version of the collaborators document at all times tracks the documents development, including who made changes and highlighting differences between the text of various versions of the document Synchroneity Awareness Communication email commenting chat

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