Distance collaboration

This was my first time working with distance collaboration and the experience was very interesting. To be able to share a document with other people is in my impression very time saving. In stead of sending e-mails and documents back and forth every member can work together with the same file at any given time and edit it at their own will. Even setting it up goes fast and easy.

The skype conference is also a timesaver when you can talk with everyone and discuss the file you are working on simultaneously. The possibility to actually talk end express yourself trough your own voice enriches the conversation and eliminates the problem if your for example a slow typer or having trouble putting thoughts into text . I think the experience would have been even greater if used our webcams.

To summarize the technology that i have tried out. I would have to say that this is a great step forward of sorting out problems with distance collaboration.

One thing that crossed my mind was that the technology to enable this is much better in a laptop than a stationary computer. In my laptop i have a built in webcam and mic working at al times. I don´t have to go through the trouble of connecting and installing them separately. And if i have access to wireless internet i don´t even have to be bound to one place. So for everyone that doesn´t have a laptop, you know what your missing out on ;)

Here is the link to the document: http://docs.google.com/View?id=dcq67nv_5gxd7cpfc