Collaboration Tool – Dropbox

Author: Jason Category: tips Tags: collaboration, online, storage, tool

Thursday
Jun 18, 2009

I know I’ve spoken of Google Docs before as a great tool for sharing and collaborating on files with people. Particularly people that aren’t sitting right next to you. For me, most of the people I work with are definitely not sitting next to me so it’s important to be able to share files seamlessly and easily.

Google Docs is great if you want to do basic documents, spreadsheets and presentations but sometimes you need to use the old Microsoft Office or Keynote and then you’re typically resigned to emailing items around which makes it tough to keep track of documents.

Enter DropBox. A tool that synchronises data onto the web where and allows you to seamlessly access that data from any computer or share it with specific people for collaboration purposes. I’ve been using it the last couple of weeks and have found it invaluable. With the free account, you get 2 GB of free storage and there are paid accounts above that for more storage.

I’ve updated the resources list with links to Dropbox. I’d recommend it.

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I know I’ve spoken of Google Docs before as a great tool for sharing and collaborating on files with people. Particularly people that aren’t sitting right next to you. For me, most of the people I work with are definitely not sitting next to me so it’s important to be able to share files seamlessly and easily.

Google Docs is great if you want to do basic documents, spreadsheets and presentations but sometimes you need to use the old Microsoft Office or Keynote and then you’re typically resigned to emailing items around which makes it tough to keep track of documents.

Enter DropBox. A tool that synchronises data onto the web where and allows you to seamlessly access that data from any computer or share it with specific people for collaboration purposes. I’ve been using it the last couple of weeks and have found it invaluable. With the free account, you get 2 GB of free storage and there are paid accounts above that for more storage.

I’ve updated the resources list with links to Dropbox. I’d recommend it.

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