TypeWith.me: Easy Online Document Collaboration
by Beth on June 30, 2010
in Beth Favorite, Free, Mac, PC, Uncategorized, Web-Based
One of the most popular categories of free and low-cost online tools is online document collaboration. TypeWith.me is one of the easiest, fastest solutions to share documents with colleagues. You simply visit their URL, click to create a new document, and you’re on a new site that you can share right away.
You can upload your own Word, text or HTML document to work on, or you can start with a blank document. When you invite collaborators, each reviewer has his own colors. I like that you can export straight to PDF or keep it in the original format. Another cool feature allows you to watch a quick movie of all the changes that were made and by whom.
TypeWith.me doesn’t require any type of registration, and it’s free, free, free.
NEW! The Cheapskate Freelancer is going multimedia. Watch this 61-second video for more details about TypeWith.me, and favorite the new Cheapskate Freelancer YouTube Channel for more videos (coming soon!):
TypeWith.me: Live Text Document Collaboration!
Twiddla: Surf the web together
Most of us surf the web solo, navigating between things we’re supposed to be researching and things we shouldn’t be doing at work (like I just shopped for bubble wrap for a gift for my 3-year-old nephew — that’s what he loves most about my gifts!).
Twiddla made it into my book as a great way to collaborate on your web surfing. My running buddy Andy wrote me about it last night, and I realized I needed to write it up for Cheapskate Freelancer.
You can literally be on the same home pages and mark up the content as a team. As Andy says, “You can also browse to a site and make fun of it by drawing mustaches and stuff on it. And it’s free!”
Looking for more collaboration tools? Check out the Collaboration Category.
Twiddla – Painless Team Collaboration for the Web.
ShowDocument: Free Web Meetings and Document Sharing Instantly
We’ll I’ll be… here I thought Dimdim (review coming soon!) was going to be my new favorite online collaboration tool, and then I find ShowDocument. ShowDocument lets you share a document, whiteboard, YouTube video — all kinds of stuff — with a very, very, very quick touch of a button. You can have up to 50 attendees.
Oh, did I mention it was completely free?
The only drawback is that it doesn’t integrate audio and video unless you use the professional version, which lists its pricing as “a flat monthly rate” and asks you to fill out a form to be contacted by sales. Not a good sign for a free or low-cost tool.
But the free version is wonderful.
Web Meeting, Document Sharing | ShowDocument.
