December 28, 2009 at 15:37Collaborative decision making at Google Wave
Today I want to share with you information about the opportunities that Google Wave provides for decision-making. And if we are talking about Google Wave, then of course we will consider collaborative decision-making.
Even without additional extensions, the team has the opportunity to communicate and jointly reach a common opinion on the issue, for this there is a text editor, a very important distinguishing feature (from mail or forums, for example) is that when they enter the wave, users see only relevant information, and all hypotheses, unfulfilled guesses, etc. do not clog the wave (although the whole story is available for viewing in Playback mode).
Although Wave technology is still very young, but thanks to the excellent API, new extensions are created every day that, using the Wave capabilities, will allow many things to be done faster and more convenient. This is what makes Wave a very attractive collaborative decision making tool. Consider the most interesting and related to the topic of expansion.
Install XML | Gadget XML The gadget allows you to collaboratively create a MindMap ( mind map ). Mindmepes are a visual hierarchical representation of an idea, in the center is a word or phrase that describes the idea very briefly, further from it the main points branch out detailing the idea and so on recursively. It is very convenient to simultaneously edit such a mind map - throwing ideas into each other.
Homepage | Install | Gadget XML I will not dissemble and immediately say that for me this gadget is special, since I am its co-author. Discussions and an alternative are of course always good, but sometimes there comes a time when you need to stop and make a decision, it is best to do it by voting , and even better when such a vote is secret - if no one can see what choice the voters made. It is for these purposes that the Decing gadget was developed. By the way, all the functionality of the gadget also works on decing.com , without the need to register.
Install XML | Gadget XML Another gadget to create an opinion poll among participants. It is interesting in that all participants have full control over changes in the voting conditions, including during the voting (but the history, as always, is available), also has advanced voting settings. The voting result is presented in the form of a diagram.
And this is a robot that allows you to insert graphics into your conversation. So the text is good, and the graphic visualization is even better. To use the services of this robot, you need to add chart-maker@appspot.com to your wave of the participating robot , and it will replace your text ( in a special syntax ) with beautiful graphics.
This article is on my blog.
Even without additional extensions, the team has the opportunity to communicate and jointly reach a common opinion on the issue, for this there is a text editor, a very important distinguishing feature (from mail or forums, for example) is that when they enter the wave, users see only relevant information, and all hypotheses, unfulfilled guesses, etc. do not clog the wave (although the whole story is available for viewing in Playback mode).
Although Wave technology is still very young, but thanks to the excellent API, new extensions are created every day that, using the Wave capabilities, will allow many things to be done faster and more convenient. This is what makes Wave a very attractive collaborative decision making tool. Consider the most interesting and related to the topic of expansion.
Mind map gadget
Install XML | Gadget XML The gadget allows you to collaboratively create a MindMap ( mind map ). Mindmepes are a visual hierarchical representation of an idea, in the center is a word or phrase that describes the idea very briefly, further from it the main points branch out detailing the idea and so on recursively. It is very convenient to simultaneously edit such a mind map - throwing ideas into each other.
Decing
Homepage | Install | Gadget XML I will not dissemble and immediately say that for me this gadget is special, since I am its co-author. Discussions and an alternative are of course always good, but sometimes there comes a time when you need to stop and make a decision, it is best to do it by voting , and even better when such a vote is secret - if no one can see what choice the voters made. It is for these purposes that the Decing gadget was developed. By the way, all the functionality of the gadget also works on decing.com , without the need to register.
Poll Gadget 2.0
Install XML | Gadget XML Another gadget to create an opinion poll among participants. It is interesting in that all participants have full control over changes in the voting conditions, including during the voting (but the history, as always, is available), also has advanced voting settings. The voting result is presented in the form of a diagram.
Chartmaker robot
And this is a robot that allows you to insert graphics into your conversation. So the text is good, and the graphic visualization is even better. To use the services of this robot, you need to add chart-maker@appspot.com to your wave of the participating robot , and it will replace your text ( in a special syntax ) with beautiful graphics.
This article is on my blog.