Collaboration+Tools

====**Google Docs** at [|docs.google.com] is one such tool. You can create, edit and share your work online, select who can access your documents and share changes in real time. Document edits are automatically saved and stored, and a history of the change is kept. An on-screen chat window shows who else is online viewing the documents.==== ====**Type With Me** (typewith.me/) is another way to collect ideas from an online group. Document text is synchronized as you type, so that everyone viewing this page sees the same text so you can collaborate seamlessly on documents in your Web browser.==== ====**[|Edmodo]** at [] is described as a private microblogging platform for teachers and students to share ideas, files, events and assignments. Features include the ability to share links, distribute notifications and SMS messages, take polls and create a class calendar. It offers different features to Google Docs, being education focused and having an assigned moderator.==== ====**VoiceThread** at voicethread.com/ is an online media album that can hold images, documents and videos and allow people to make comments using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video (with a webcam) - and share them with anyone they wish. VoiceThread allows group conversations to be collected and shared in one place, from anywhere in the world. A VoiceThread is stored online, and is can be edited and updated.==== ====**Ning** at www.ning.com/ is the leading online platform for the world’s organizers, activists and influencers to create their own social network. Design a custom social experience in under 30 seconds giving you the power to mobilize, organize and inspire or search for an existing Ning.==== ====**Dropbox** at www.dropbox.com, although not strickly a collaboration tool, offers a way to co-ordinate files between different computers and also a way to share files. For example - a large collection of photographs could be zipped but still be in a large file. Rather than attach it to an email you could add it to dropbox and authorise another person to pick it up. This is software which you need to download and install. See the Wikipedia entry here...==== Some ideas for wallwisher... Personal note taking, To-do lists, Party Invitations, Feedback Collection, Brainstorming, Organising who does what for an event, Distributing/sharing, anything needing input from a lot of people.
 * WallWisher** at www.wallwisher.com is an online application that allows people to post notes about their thoughts on a common topic on a web page or "wall"
 * Solvr **from google (@http://a.freshbrain.com/solvr/) is a problem solving tool with a difference. In the fashio of a mind map it invites solutions whilst identifying areas needing attention