Good afternoon.
I've created a very fictitious document and hopefully sent it to nswpln. I don't want it back (!!) but I can quite see how the exchange of versions back and forth
would be very useful. Oriana, I hope you don't collapse when you receive something entitled 'Contract between the State Library ..." - I didn't know whether I should 'Invite Collaboration" or just click 'Share' and I did try to send it under the title of "Week 11 Web 2.0 course exercise" but it rather looks like it went with the document title - sorry about that ....
Such document construction would be ideal in a regional library situation or where there are dispersed sites of a library when creating something to go over the name of the one institution. I can also see such document sharing being handy for producing strategic plans and similar policy documents at a Zone or regional level. Instead of a draft document being tabled and taken away and read for the next meeting, and then variations voted on and them taken away and written in to produce a final document to be tabled at a third meeting, a document that has been read, amended and agreed to should only need the one tabling. Even doing editing by ricocheting emails is pretty inefficient as explained in the Plain English video. Also such a method means more people can be involved in the production of such documents (not just a two/three person sub-committee) which should improve their quality on the one hand and their acceptability on the other.
This sort of document preparation or at least document drafting would be effective meeting preparation, requiring participants to really think about the issues involved and come with thoughtful reactions to share. I would see concurrent document editing and associated communication explaining why changes were made.
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