Thursday, May 24, 2012

Google Wave as a Collaboration Tool

by Deborah Fishman An all-volunteer magazine put together by a geographically diverse, online community of young adults 22-40, PresenTense Magazine has always been a collaborative enterprise. As such, we’ve made ample use of many Google products, storing and sharing articles in Docs, communicating in Chat, and organizing and tracking article progress in Sites. Yet the lack of integration has made using all these tools in concert a challenge, and we are always interested in exploring better ways to perform these tasks. For our tenth issue, PresenTense Magazine launched the Digital Issue - the first-ever print magazine to be published entirely in Google's new tool for collaboration, Google Wave. The platform allowed us to pioneer new horizons for journalism by seeking to address a key … Continue Reading