I was concerned about how using Docs on multiple IDs and on multiple computers with this offline feature would work (or if it would). Macbeach Apat just got the roll-out a few days ago and it showed up on two normal Google ids as well as two different Google Aps accounts I work with (and wasn't even sure they were putting it into Aps yet, they are!). ![]() They simply won't understand how we could have gotten anything done. Our kids will wonder why we would ever use some program on our computer that stored files on our computer, and was only good for printing things. If it could do _ it would be even more powerful." Those people will find out that it either can already do _ or that the feature they want is there next week. Instead it's going to be a case of individuals doing something that involves others and they will say, "wow, this is unbelievable. So far as I know there is almost no advertising for this service. What's going to break this all loose? It's not going to be a marketing campaign. They understand the idea of word processors, but Google has gone beyond that with Google Docs and changed the ways in which we can work. That's why it is better than Buzzword or other online processors. Sure, Google Docs can work as a traditional word processor, and I use it that way sometimes, but the true power is in connectivity. This is a paradigm shift that putting Word online will not come close to. The power of Google Docs has, at best, been only partially understood so far. * its capabilities are built to use this environment * its world view knows/understands its connected environment * knows that words want to be shared and that's why you've typed them. Not only is there the list of attractive people in your contacts list but there is everyone with an internet connection! And being on the Web they know that the world of connected people at your fingertips is massive. It knows that the words you're gonna edit are, 99.9% of the time, going to want to be loved by many more than you. but it's not because it comes from the 'words' world view. Oh it has similar naming conventions, it uses all the jargon that we're used to and it pretends to be a document. Google Docs doesn't live in the 'document' world. The words love this - they can love more and more people, more words can join them as they spread around the network - you can put in your words, I can add my words, Stevens from Accounts can remove the words he doesn't want - the words are out there, they love to be free and are loving all.īut once set free they're bloody near impossible to reign back in, for a start where the frig are they - out there in the wilds of the electronic world running free is all well and good until some poor sod has to try and reign them in. The most common way employed by everyone ever is. We've had consultants claiming to solve it via changes in work practices - 'workflow" and the bottlenecks they employ. ![]() We've had software attempting to mediate the differences - every electronic document management (EDMS) system you've battled against lives this category. ![]() This issue - words love all / documents love one at a time - is a fundamental issue that many have tried to solve using any number of clever means. The document that was only for you will quite easily tell you to go away as they are now in a one-on-one relationship with someone else. They force the document to dump one person and love another in a serial monogamy type of way. Of course the words inside the document want to be loved by all and to love all. If someone else tries to muscle in on this close(d) relationship they will get told to go away, I am with someone else. The document you edit looks lovingly into your eyes proclaiming ever lasting love just for you. It outlines the major difference between Google Docs and office suites like Microsoft Office or OpenOffice: Google Docs is built for a connected environment.ĭocuments (PC-based I'm thinking) are fundamentally about "one person". so what - the ONE reason why you should care" doesn't talk only about Google Docs, it's also about Zoho, wikis or any other tool that lets you write, collaborate and share your documents. Mike Riversdale wrote the best article I've read about Google Docs.
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