Thursday, February 15, 2007

Fun with skype and google docs

I just downloaded skype for windows and started playing with it. It is a pretty cool conferencing tool, and i'm really excited about it because it will allow our consulting project team and others to communicate and coordinate with eachother without having to congregate in a single location. Consider this: the four of us need to put together a big report. We need to coordinate together on some activities like the writing, but have very different class and work schedules.Rather than everyone going to a conference room, standing around and watching one person type, we can all work on writing the report at the same time and talk about it simultaneously. Every few seconds everybody's changes refresh, and since we're all talking and bouncing questions, Its just like being in the same room. Only better. How neat is that?