Comparison of Collaboration Tools (Unit of Learning 8)
March 26, 2008 at 2:11 am 1 comment
Below are several links to a document my collaboration group for InfoTechTools (Group #1) published as part of Unit of Learning 8. The purpose of this discussion was to compare MS Word 2003/2007, Google Docs, Zoho Writer, and Wiki.
Comparison of MS Word, Google Docs, Zoho, and Wiki on ZOHO website
http://writer.zoho.com/public/c_allen/Learning-Unit-8-Group-1
Comparison of MS Word, Google Docs, Zoho, and Wiki on WIKI website
http://infotechtoolsgroup1.wetpaint.com/page/Learning+Unit+8
Comparison of MS Word, Google Docs, Zoho, and Wiki on Google Document
From this exercise, I would prefer to use Zoho Writer for any type of collaboration activities. Even though it took a few misunderstandings between the group members and the software before things started going smoothly, once the group got comfortable with the software, the document was published with ease. One of the biggest pros with Zoho Writer is the ability to instant message group members real-time while everyone is writing their part(s) of the document. For that matter, I choose Zoho Writer was the superior collaboration tool going forward.
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Javed Alam | April 5, 2008 at 6:24 am
Your task is complete but some of the conclusions are weak. Microsoft Office 2003 cost lot of money if you are not getting a discount. It does not allow collaboration still you considered it as one of your choices because of familiarity. It is true that it is feature heavy but what feature did you miss when you write this report using ZOHO and Wiki?
Also, you preferred ZOHO over Google doc because ZOHO has more features but Google doc has less cluttered interface and it is much easier to learn then other programs.
Also you used wiki from ZOHO but you were asked to use wiki from wetpaint not from ZOHO.