Google Docs & Shared Folders

Google Docs is constantly getting updated. It seems there's a noticeable tweak to its features about every month. Why should you care? Mainly because Google Docs is probably the easiest and most powerful way to create collaborative documents via the web. This web-based suite of applications includes a word processor, spreadsheet, presentations, and the creation of forms. Each of these kinds of documents can subsequently be displayed as web pages. So, for example, this means it's pretty easy for you to create forms and have the data automatically placed into a spreadsheet for you.

One of the newest enhancements to Google Docs has been the inclusion of shared folders. This is a particularly welcome addition for doctoral students who may be doing some sort of collaborative work. As stated at the Google Docs Blog:

The biggest update is the introduction of shared folders -- far and away the most requested Google Docs feature. Shared folders work how you would expect them to and we hope they will make it easier for teams and groups to collaborate on documents together.

To share a group of items, all you have to do is put them all into a folder and share the folder. As you'd expect, if you add an item to a shared folder, it will automatically be shared and if you add someone to an existing shared folder, they will instantly get access to all of the folder's content.

We've also made it easy to upload multiple items to Google Docs. Instead of picking one file at a time, our new upload page lets you choose multiple files and upload them simultaneously, in just a couple of steps.

You can keep up with the latest news by bookmarking their blog and checking it out about once a month. Here's the link:

google docs blog link