5 Ways to Collaborate on Documents Online in Real Time

Sat, Feb 21st, 2009

Collaborating with others online has never been easier. There are a number of options for everything from sharing images and video to presentations, tasks and more. Here we’ll focus on collaborating on documents in real time, an area that’s improved quite a bit, but still has a way to go.

Of these five options, some services require you to create documents online while others allow you to create them off. There isn’t one clear cut winner in the bunch, it all depends on your situation, your needs and where you want to keep your files.

Have a real time online document collaboration tool to recommend? Tell us more about it in the comments.

EtherPad offers real-time editing and collaboration of plain text documents. It includes a mini chat room and shows each user’s edits with their own color in real time. Also nice is the ability to save and restore revisions.

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  1. February 25th, 2009 at 03:05

    We at DeskAway use google docs most often!