30 Days With…Google Docs: Day 20

I think I may have been a tad remiss. Granted, I did cover the Google Docs Discussions feature for exchanging comments and editing a document in real-time, but here we are on day 20 of 30 Days With…Google Docs and I haven’t really covered one of the defining features of Google Docs–real-time collaboration.

I have spent years “collaborating” the old-fashioned way. I write a draft of a document, and I send it off to a peer or editor for review. They take their turn commenting and editing and send it back to me. I then take my turn revising the document based on the comments made, and so it goes. Collaborating like that is inefficient–like trying to have a conversation on a walkie-talkie where only one party can speak at a time.