Do you need to share documents with others for editing or team collaboration purposes? Are you seeking an alternative to Microsoft's Office suite? Google Docs maybe a solution for you. Google Docs is an application suite for uploading, creating, editing and sharing documents online and the best part, it's free!!! For individuals or those starting a business, reducing start up costs is essential.
Why Use Google Docs
Google Docs is great for team collaboration. Instead of e-mailing documents and editing revisions to multiple people, you can keep one copy (and revisions) online for the group to view and/or edit. It should be noted there is an option to share a document with read-only access.Another option to upload documents is for safe-keeping. I don't advocate using Google as a total backup or disaster-recovery plan but having a copy of a document on your local computer as well as Google docs will provide some degree of recover ability if the local copy is lost or destroyed.
Requirements
To access Google docs, an internet connection, a google account and a web browser are needed. Since access is achieved via the internet using Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari or another favorite web browser, any operating system can be used. It will not matter if you use Windows, Mac, Linux or another operating system on the computer, Gooogle Docs will work the same.It should be noted that having a Google account does NOT mean having Google's e-mail account. You can associate your business email address with a Google account. As a result, when you send communicate with Google, your email address will be username@mydomain.com or queengeek@terrystechnicaltips.com and your business does not lose credibility by using a gmail.com e-mail address.
Stay tuned in the next week for the demo of Google docs. In the interim, enjoy the video of the overview.
