After spending the morning composing an email with my staff via MS Outlook, and a group Skype call, I have to wonder about software specific to collaborative writing: will it enhance the process? The goal for me, at least, is to inspire a collaborative spirit. Would a piece of software do this? These two pieces of software worked well for us in this situation as all of us (6) were working on other projects so the collaboration was somewhat asynchronous. That said, had it been a synchronous effort, perhaps a software that allowed for all participants to view/write/edit at the same time (that also had group voice/IM capabilities) would probably have been more efficient.
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