Can anyone recommend free web-based platforms for collaborating with people? I am working on group projects with classmates in a distance education program. Blackboard seems a bit clunky and I'm not sure it lets people upload and then collaboratively edit documents, which is my main thought right now for what I want to do. Ideas?
Ah, the pitter patter of tiny feet in huge combat boots. Shut up!
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flea - Jan 23, 2008 5:17:16 am PST #4461 of 25501
information libertarian
Dana - Jan 23, 2008 5:19:03 am PST #4462 of 25501
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
GoogleDocs?
hippocampus - Jan 23, 2008 5:19:08 am PST #4463 of 25501
not your mom's socks.
flea - Campfire was recommended to me here months ago - it's pretty good. [link]
also, google tools - you can create a group and edit documents, chat, etc.
tommyrot - Jan 23, 2008 5:20:19 am PST #4464 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Flea, do you need people to be able to see and edit the document(s) simultaneously?
§ ita § - Jan 23, 2008 5:20:50 am PST #4465 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'll chime in with GoogleDocs again, just because I've heard many good things about it for just what you seem to need.
amych - Jan 23, 2008 5:30:48 am PST #4466 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
fourthing (?) GDocs -- Blackboard definitely doesn't do what you want.
le nubian - Jan 23, 2008 5:48:50 am PST #4467 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Typo Boy - Jan 23, 2008 6:03:29 am PST #4468 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Ginger, I wonder if comcast is screwing with your domain. I did not receive you email at may profile. I'm going to try sending to you from gmail.
[Update] No not Comcast. Same bounce from gmail. Can you send me email from another account, cause I still have not got anything from you either. Your email is two initials at a commercial domain for web and print editing, yes?
Ginger - Jan 23, 2008 6:48:43 am PST #4469 of 25501
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
This is very odd.
(edited to remove e-mail address)
Typo Boy - Jan 23, 2008 8:42:38 am PST #4470 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
OK insent. If this has become too big a pain for you, I'll understand if you want to forget it. Have you tried sending to yourself using your [redacted]? (On the assumption that the email problem is of more concern to you than giving me advice free in a field you normally charge for.)
(I'll delete the email address in a few, which might also want to do for the [redacted] address.)