Collaboration:  Getting work done together

Doodle

• A very simple way to schedule meetings
• Create a "Poll"  -- you'll be emailed the link to your poll to send to others, and sent an email each time your poll is updated by someone
• Free

Google docs

• Takes the traditional Microsoft Office tools (Excel and Word) and makes them collaborative
• Invite people to edit your documents with you
• Make a document public or keep it private
• May be a bit more clunky than Microsoft products, but what you trade in traditional features, you get in collaboration
• Free

Wikis

• Collaborative writing tool
• Can be public or private
• Can revert to previous versions of a page once edited
• You're looking at a wiki!! (a FREE one!!!)
• Costs vary depending on what wiki environment is being used - sometimes free, sometimes not (depends on features).
• Other examples:
  • LibSuccess
  • SCLS programming wiki
  • Project Play
  • InfoSoup PR Committee Wiki
  • Davis Wiki (community project)
  • St. Joseph County Public Library Subject Guides
• Wondering where wiki edits are coming from? Try Wiki Scanner
• To get started with your own:
  • PBwiki
  • "Which Wiki is Right for You?" (School Library Journal, 5/1/2007)
  • When To Use a Wiki
  • Wiki Matrix

Basecamp

• Collaborative tool for product management
• Brings together different pieces:  messages, writeboards, files, to-dos
• Costs
• Try the beta of MyQuire, a FREE product with features similar to Basecamp