IS COLLABORATION A DIRTY WORD?
The promise of software based collaboration is somewhat akin to the promise of computers giving us
more leisure
time. The potential is there but so far the promise hasn't been honored.
Today's reality of
teams working "collaboratively" on a presentation is often fraught with
numerous
large file transfers or email attachments, multiple versions and many
files distributed across different locations. Everyone's comments and
edits
have
to be consolidated with every version change and for this to work
efficiently each team member has to be as responsive as the others. You
might not
want every contributer to see all the information on every slide so you
end up fragmenting your presentation into even more files. You might
get
there
in the end but the process can be painful.
SlideRocket deals with
these issues by letting your team work together on a single, version
controlled, centrally located file that can be edited concurrently by
every member of your team. Your presentation is stored in the
SlideRocket
library with all your other assets and you can grant appropriate
permissions to enable viewing, editing and sharing. SlideRocket
goes
above and beyond by letting you distribute your presentation as a URL or
quickly creating a web meeting to share your slides in real time.
Is this the collaboration utopia you've dreamed of? Coming soon to a
browser near you.
