Between the ability to access your documents anywhere, the easy sharing, and the automatic backups, I know more and more people who are using these services. As a starting point, I looked at the terms for three of the major alternatives in the online document space: Google Docs, Zoho , and Adobe’s new Acrobat.com service. MORE >>

Even when your team is located in the same building, sharing and collaborating on documents and content can be tricky if you aren’t using the right tools. All too often, I see people working on the same document and shipping it around via email, and before long, you have multiple conflicting versions made in parallel by several people. MORE >>

While there are many live collaboration tools out there, I haven’t seen any that are quite as simple as Show Document. It’s a free Flash-based web app that provides a robust,  no-hassle way to get near-instant feedback or collaboration on a document, with no signup or downloads required. Written by Simon Mackie. MORE >>

Please visit the new blog at www.joiningdots.com/blog/ 09 December 2005 Documents versus Records During 2002, I was involved in a project to implement electronic records management (not SOX, that act was still in development.) Put too many controls in place and they simply will not create the document - no document, no record. MORE >>

I don’t know about you, but as a remote worker, I find coordinating a document review challenging: emailing a document to your colleagues or clients, getting their comments back over email, trying to collate them into one master document, then struggling to keep track of which is the most up-to-date version. MORE >>