Michael Farina's lecture on Collaborative Editing Tools, delivered to Yale faculty at Yale's Collaborative Learning Center. Farina, Senior Lector in the Italian Department, discusses a number of collaborative text editing tools beyond the Yale Library’s MS Sharepoint software. He introduces a number of alternatives and solutions for collaborative writing that go beyond the "Yale bubble," including TextFlow (one of his favorites), DocVerse (one heck of an Office add-on), EtherPad (another favorite), doingText, WriteWith, WriteBoard (his staple), and TokBox. Alternatives such as these have finally allowed researchers to move beyond sharing documents through email for the coordination and editing of collaborative writing and co-authored articles. His presentation was given on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009: Election Day.

1. Collaborative Editing Tools
Yale University
Collaborative Learning Center
November 3, 2009

5. Sharepoint’s Competitors:

6. Sharepoint’s Competitors:
✴ Jive Software

7. Sharepoint’s Competitors:
✴ Jive Software
✴ SocialText

8. Sharepoint’s Competitors:
✴ Jive Software
✴ SocialText
✴ PBWorks (PBwiki)

9. Sharepoint’s Competitors:
✴ Jive Software
✴ SocialText
✴ PBWorks (PBwiki)
✴ Huddle (Groupwise)

10. Sharepoint’s Competitors:
✴ Jive Software
✴ SocialText
✴ PBWorks (PBwiki)
✴ Huddle (Groupwise)
✴ Backpack

26. Collaborative
Workspaces
vs
Collaborative
Editing Tools

27. Collaborative
SBS,
Project
Management
Software,
Workspaces Groupware
(Learning Curve)
(Often Difficult)
vs
Collaborative
Editing Tools

28. Collaborative
SBS,
Project
Management
Software,
Workspaces Groupware
(Learning Curve)
(Often Difficult)
vs
Collaborative Task Driven
Editing Tools
(Intuitive)
(Ease of Use)

37. Some things to consider with
Collaborative Editing Tools:

38. Some things to consider with
Collaborative Editing Tools:
Online/Offline

39. Some things to consider with
Collaborative Editing Tools:
Online/Offline
Simplicity (and learning curve)

40. Some things to consider with
Collaborative Editing Tools:
Online/Offline
Simplicity (and learning curve)
Type of Comments/Suggestions

41. Some things to consider with
Collaborative Editing Tools:
Online/Offline
Simplicity (and learning curve)
Type of Comments/Suggestions
Tracking History

42. Some things to consider with
Collaborative Editing Tools:
Online/Offline
Simplicity (and learning curve)
Type of Comments/Suggestions
Tracking History
Realtime

43. Some things to consider with
Collaborative Editing Tools:
Online/Offline
Simplicity (and learning curve)
Type of Comments/Suggestions
Tracking History
Realtime
The Purpose of Your Collaboration

44. Type of Comments/Edits/Suggestions

45. Type of Comments/Edits/Suggestions
Audio

46. Type of Comments/Edits/Suggestions
Audio
Video

47. Type of Comments/Edits/Suggestions
Audio
Video
Textual

48. Type of Comments/Edits/Suggestions
Audio
Video
Textual
Whiteboard

49. The Purpose of Your Collaboration

50. The Purpose of Your Collaboration
Input?

51. The Purpose of Your Collaboration
Input?
Editorial?

52. The Purpose of Your Collaboration
Input?
Editorial?
Collaborative?

53. The Purpose of Your Collaboration
Input? } Comments
Editorial?
Collaborative?

54. The Purpose of Your Collaboration
Input? } Comments
Editorial? } Control
Collaborative?

55. The Purpose of Your Collaboration
Input? } Comments
Editorial? } Control
Collaborative?
History, Comments, Wiki-Functionality,
& Truly Collaborative Writing

58. For Academics,
The purpose of collaborative editing
really falls into two basic categories:
Democratic
Benevolent Tyrant

59. For Democratic Collaborative Editing

60. For Democratic Collaborative Editing

64. For the Benevolent Tyrant

65. For the Benevolent Tyrant
(or, the Editor with final say)

116. http://blog.tokbox.com/2009/08/26/collaboration-moves-to-the-next-level/

122. My favorites:
Writeboard
Te x t f l o w
Etherpad