Tech group met on Dec.6th(on phone)

When I learnt that there was going to be a demonstration on collaborative electronic tools at our dec. 6th conference call, I browsed the web to find something that would give me an idea of what a collaborative tool is. I found a concept offered by Google that enable exchange of documents between group members. They called it “writely”, which allowed me to create a document, the same document my husband could open and edit from his computer and at his convenience, but not in real time.

Yview seems slightly different. With graphical display and its ability to provide real time exchange of screen sharing, in addition to document sharing it is an amazing tool. Tim made a very interesting presentation. Though I had to share the computer with John at the time of demonstration— attept to install software on my own work station failed -- it was a thrilling experience to share the white board with fellow TANs John, Jeff, Andrea, Cheryl, Corey, Laura and Aliya who participated from different locations. Luckily I have succeeded installing one on my home computer, and am intending to learn more about it.

I look forward for Laura’s talk on disaster recovery techniques at our next conference call scheduled to take place on Jan.8th. Also to take the opportunity to say hello to the other members.