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Friday, May 16, 2008

Using web tools to collaborate between creatives.

Wisdom from the masses

Filed under: Pre-Production •

Google Sites

This is a free service through Google that lets you build a web page fairly easily that is populated mostly by Google apps (widgets). These apps can be pretty handy, and include an app called Google Docs, which allows you to upload and share word processing and presentation files including images and video. I also populated my “Start Page” with weather widgets for the locations, a notetaking widget, a calendar widget, a countdown widget, to do widgets, and stickynotes, as well as timezone clocks for various people on the production team. Also widgets for creating and filling out forms and saving weblinks to share.

This “Start Page” can be shared and is password protected.

My impression of this solution is that it’s great because it’s free, but it doesn’t really suit itself to production or creative collaboration. It just feels a little generic.

To check it out yourself, visit:

http://www.google.com/sites/overview.html

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Great stuff.  I’ve loved using CelTx for scripting and production docs.

Vyew is also a great collaboration tool that is gaining steam.  The biggest thing is that it’s free, for now.  You can do a ton of stuff with it.  It’s a Skype on steroids.  It’s a great tool for live collaboration and teleconferencing.

Posted by Joel Smith  on  05/17  at  04:30 PM

Posted a link over at my blog.. great article

Posted by Richard Harrington  on  05/19  at  07:45 PM

Check out Apeer. It’s like IM for digital files. It’s the first and only application that enables individuals to enter into a synchronous and instant multi-user, participatory exchange where all parties can simultaneously view photos, hear music, and see videos in real time over the internet – all in one window. It also provides conversational tools with built-in voice and chat.

http://www.internetnews.com/webcontent/article.php/12221_3746076_1

Posted by  on  05/20  at  03:00 PM

Hi Steve,

I am a collaboration blogger for a company called Octopz and a mediamaker with a film and video background, so I think I can chime in here with an additional, albeit biased, suggestion.

You and other film and video pros might want to have a look at our web-based collaboration software service at Octopz.com.

In a nutshell, Octopz allows a filmmaker or videographer to collaborate with clients and colleagues throughout the whole cycle of a project, from brainstorming, storyboarding, scripting and visualization right through to final cut and client approval.

It is a fully integrated web collaboration service that is specifically designed for creative pros, including filmmakers and videographers. In fact, our support for rich media, video and 3D is one of the key areas that distinguish us from other similar offerings which are geared more to print or web designers.

We are also the only fully released service (not alpha or beta) in this category of visual collaboration software to fully support integrated text, voice an video chat.

All anyone needs to use Octopz, on a PC, Mac or Linux, is a popular web-browser (Explorer, Firefox, Safari) and the Adobe Flash plug-in.

Octopz is not a free service, but it compares very well with other services that have similar capabilities, like Adobe Connect Professional.

A 15-day trial account is available on our website and I would be happy to meet you and any other PVC writers and readers in an Octopz room to go through its capabilities, and more importantly, to get any feedback you or others might have on our service.

For more on Octopz, including acclaim, awards and posts on creative collaboration you can visit the blog I edit at thepond.octopzlive.com

Best,

geo

Posted by geoperdis  on  05/21  at  08:37 AM

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