Google Docs is probably one of my favorite tools. I haven’t utilized it at work very often because we have access to a shared network drive to view and update documents, but when working with colleagues outside the library system, it can really be a wonderful tool. Another handy thing about it is that not all of our workstations have Microsoft Word, so Google Docs presents a really useful alternative for our patrons at times. Also, we only have CDs and Floppy Disks available for saving documents — so if someone forgets their flash drive, saving their work as a Google document is another excellent option for some people.
I played around with Zoho, and find their interface a little bit more intuitive. Zoho offers a more complete suite of tools (wikis, polls, databases) and (this is silly) I love how colorful it is. I’m really impressed with the options for creating, saving and sharing — and chatting and conferencing.
As far as choosing one over the other — that’s trickier. Since you can invite specific people to edit the documents in both, that alleviates concerns about requiring others to create an account they might not want to create. I would probably choose Google because I know it already, but I would really be open to working with either application in a project.
[...] for me. Wikis are a tool to share information, not for drafting it together as the tools in Thing 9 are. Plus, I have yet to find a wiki tool that I like the look of. So far, I don’t like [...]
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