Online writing but collaborative

Writing usually is done by yourself and be revised by instructor and rewrite again by yourself. Now a collaborative writing has appeared and there is one called Writeboard created by 37 signal web company. As you had viewed the article made by someone then Writeboard has such a nice function that let you revise the inappropriate sentences, bad grammar, new viewpoints if you want. Actually, this idea has bloomed that it may thank to the time of Web 2.0 which has been coming. Corresponding to collaborative power of Web2.0, problems proposed by people have more chance to be solved by intelligent individuals who has seen the posted problems. Moreover, same to Writeboard, an article cannot be perfect just written one time; it has to revise again and agian just like design software has to debug again and again. Otherwise, you can face the problem yourself but may need more time and money to get things done.

Another benefit from Web 2.0 is "forum". A online forum combines together valuable ideas, knowledge, and information. Usually people who have common interest will be seeing each other, knowing each other from a forum due to same desire of goal, such as TV games, sports, gambling, etc. Using your hand to write your question on a forum, later on, a respond will be shown to your question. Ironically, some information has to be dug in there which clever guys only want to appear on the specific forum. Furthermore, software engineers could use collaborative tools to get jobs done. We know writing huge software programming cannot be done by one person, it needs to gather a bunch of genius engineers to collaborate together, perhaps one engineer wrote this part of program then posted on the wrting tools on the Intranet/ internet; other engineers began to revise the programming, debug it then posted it back to let the original software programmer to rearrange it. Software programming used in collaborative writing tool is common but also we can see scientists used collaborative writing to discuss research with their colleagues or same field characteristic work done by other scientists of other countries. However, thanks to google that it saves lots of time to find people's need in a short time.

I personally have few experience on collaborative writing, probably I am not a writer, I am a electrical engineer. In my opinion, journalists will need collaborative writing during their work and software engineers all need that while they are creating troubling computer language. For me, I need collaborative design for drawing with AutoCad but writing.

The software, Campfire, made by 37 signal is impressive to me. I downloaded and tried, then I found that it is useful to group meeting, especially in transferring big files. We know transferring big file need time and patience; the faster the speed , the more successful achievement is. Nevertheless, it is still few people know about this software.