Okay, everyone, I know Google Docs has been around a while, and I really have been using it myself for several years. However, today was the first time I really saw the beauty of working on a shared document. A colleague and I were writing a letter together. We had each been working on the shared document at various times over the course of a few days. With the deadline approaching, it seemed like we should get together and hash out a final version. And we did get together, sort of. With Google docs, we were both working at the same time, using the chat feature to discuss changes and make suggestions.
Because we weren't at our usual coffee shop meeting place, we were more focused on our task, we didn't spend a lot of money on mochas, and our "meeting" only took half an hour instead of our typical 90 minutes.
If you need to collaborate on a document, presentation, or some other Google item, remember that you don't necessarily have to meet face-to-face. Sometimes not meeting can actually be more productive.
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