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We’ve come a long way – An interview with Shwu Jiau Teoh

In the beginning … Shwu Jiau Teoh Way back in the early 1980s, there was no email in the CGIAR. When scientists wanted to collaborate with each other, they did so using the technology available at that time: phone, fax, telex and cable. Some of these communication methods were often slow and unreliable,...

2nd Wiki Training session at FAO

Last week I blogged about the 1st Training Session at FAO and it was such a success that they repeated the training session on Wikis again yesterday for those people that didn’t get the chance to register last week. Tania Jordan, Gauri Salokhe, Romolo Tassone Usually after the training sessions,...

Useful Tips for Collaborative Writing with Google Docs and Google Sites

Useful Tips for Collaborative Writing with Google Docs and Google Sites
Lately, we’ve been receiving many requests from people who would like to write documents collaboratively. This is not the first time we write about this topic: Meena published a general overview of collaborative writing approaches, and Silvia Renn shared tips on writing proposals with Google Docs. Having...

Wikis, sites, docs and pads: the many flavours of collaborative writing (#7 – Social Media Tools Blog Series)

I always enjoy reminiscing about the way things were before the advent of the mobile phone or the Internet or thumb-size music machines… and I usually think to myself, in a corny fashion: Isn’t technology amazing? Now, if you’ve been collaborating with colleagues (whether in your office or...

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