Thing 7: Online Collaboration Tools

I really wish I would have known about these Online Collaboration tools earlier, it would have made things much, much easier. In the past few years, there has been a countless number of times where I have been involved in a group project where multiple drafts of the same document were being tossed around. Usually we just emailed them to each other, as attachments. Not only would this clutter my inbox, but it would make it confusing to figure out what draft was the latest, and it didn't track what changes were made and by whom. Both these things are something that Google Docs can do. All you have to do is to sign into your Google account, assuming you have one (which you should from some of the other 16 Things). Then upload your document into Google Docs. Next we would invite those who we want to share the document with. Any computer with an internet connection will be able to access that document now, as long as they were invited. Those people would then provide feedback and all changes are recorded. Brilliant!