If you are working on a project you may want to collaborate with others even if it’s something as simple as an article where you could communicate and make changes with a ghost writer.  If you’re putting together a launch then it can become complex and collaboration becomes more important.

You have probably been aware of Google docs but may not have used it.  For instance you might have Microsoft Office and don’t think that Google docs would be of value to you. That is the way that I was thinking I was thinking about it. But somewhere along the line someone pointed out to me that by using Google docs then Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and PowerPoint documents could be shared with others.

Lets say you were having a seminar and you wanted to keep track of hotel room availability and let your attendees know how many and what rooms they could get, you could put a spreadsheet on your site that they could check. Maybe you could get the hotel to update it for you as reservations come in.

Now you can let your imagination run a little bit and see how you could work with others to improve whatever you are doing quite easily.  Combined with something like Instant Messenger or e-mail, you can rapidly improve what you are doing.  You can find out more about Google docs at docs.google.com.

With Internet Explorer 7, many times when I use the Favorites Center
(Alt+C) for the RSS Feeds I subscribe to, the blog pages won’t show
up. If I click on the Refresh Arrows, the page still doesn’t show up.
A trick I learned to make it work is to align my cursor right behind
the URL and hit enter.

I might have to do that a couple of times but the page will show up.
It might be a little clunky but it works.