TypeWith.Me: Collaboration Made Simple

I’M PASSING ALONG TODAY information about a brand-new online service, announced just yesterday, 27 February.  This application — typewith.me — allows collaboration on a document by up to 15 people simultaneously, in real time.  It was developed by Chris Pirillo of Lockergnome fame, based on the EtherPad open-source code.  If you want to know more about the application itself, you can watch Chris’s demo video.

You can also see — and join! — our very own demonstration of the application.  What you are reading right here is my personal first draft.  But at our demonstration document, you can collaborate on this post yourself.  If people do add in some valuable content, I’ll post it back here as our first collaborative post.  This may be an effective way to gather together the collective wisdom of this blog’s readership.

The application is easy to use.  There is no need to officially register with the site, but you do need to insert a name in the box at the top right to help track your contributions to the document.  The list of names visible at the demo site are people who are currently live on the document draft.  Collaborators can also enter into live chat in the area provided.

Please collaborate with us, while seeing also how the application works.  Just click this link, which will be active for a limited time.  The document at this link hopefully will turn into a collaborative post for this blog about the utility of online collaboration, plus recommendations of other collaboration applications, if any of my readers care to chip in.  Please offer your additions and observations to my original post.  This is actually an experiment among us to see just how the application works.

For those who visit, I pose two questions.  Please enter your own thoughts into the document.  After you’ve written something, feel free to click the “Saved revisions” button.  If this little experiment is successful, I’ll post our collaborative post back here into my blog for the whole world to see.

QUESTION ONE:  CAN YOU THINK OF ANY USES  FOR THIS APPLICATION FOR WRITERS?

QUESTION TWO:  DO YOU KNOW OF OTHER  COLLABORATION APPLICATIONS THAT YOU LIKE BETTER?

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    Comment by
    tomcolvin
    1 Mar 2010

    The first collaborator has already left a contribution to the post, with some very valid observations from the vantage point of a student. The document is still open for additional collaboration.

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