[Hidden-tech] Google Docs & Versioning

[Town Websites]

Google docs provides a good distributed text versioning system for the
price.  The differencing tools are minimal and you'll probably want to use
this for text only (IE, remove all formatting).

 

The real key to success is getting the people to comfortably use the system,
and I think that will be true for nearly any system you could set up.  If
the people have already being using Google docs (or at least have a Gmail
account) that will improve your odds of success.  I don't know of any system
that's likely to do better if you have a small distributed project, with
people who don't already do significant work together, and a low budget.

 

If you've got a domain associated with the project which you can set up with
google apps, and buy-in from the four people to use accounts on that apps
domain, that's the direction I'd go to limit the amount of explicit file
sharing you'd need to do and give you some other shared tools you might want
to use for this project or some other project in the future.  Apps starting
cost is zero for up to 50 users on a domain.

 

Charlie Heath

Town Websites

 

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[mailto:hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net] On Behalf Of Susanna
Opper
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 9:52 AM
To: 'HT-discuss'
Subject: [Hidden-tech] Google Docs & Versioning

 

Hi you wise and wonderful people,

I'm just starting to do the content for a Web site. There will be four
people involved in the project and I'm wondering if this is the time to use
Google Docs (or something similar). Usually I use Word and a complicated but
workable system of manual versioning. If I'm going to do something different
this time, now's the moment to decide.

 

How have others handled this problem?

 

As ever, deeply grateful.

 

--Susanna

 

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