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Using web tools to collaborate between creatives.

iWeb and .mac account

I’ve had a .mac account for several years and I’ve actually used iWeb many times to get feedback from clients on various edits of trailers I’ve cut. Since I’m about 600 miles from my nearest client, I tend to do a lot of web-based client approval and interaction. But that’s not really what the original poster was looking for. (Of course, as we here at PVC are all friends of Frank Capria, we’d recommend Xprove for client approvals anyway!) To get back on tangent, can you do creative collaboration with others through a .mac account using iPhoto and Web Galleries or iWeb? Absolutely. This is a great solution if you already own a .mac account and iLife ’08. If you don’t, then I wouldn’t really promote this as a valid solution. For “group scrapbooking” it’s a very easy collaborative method using iPhoto. There are numerous ways that multiple people can share images with the central scrapbook or album. With iWeb, creating web pages with notes and blogs and photos and videos is incredibly easy. I wouldn’t give it high marks for ease of collaboration though. This is more of a “pushed” solution, with one person disseminating images, files and ideas to a group. It is possible for others to edit and blog comments and add to the discussion, but iWeb and .mac weren’t really designed for that purpose, so it would be doable, but a bit of a kludge.

This is also not a free solution by any means. An annual subscription is about $100 and iLife ’08 is about $80. The cool thing is that the .mac account is good for so many other things. It includes 10gigs of storage and I use Apple’s BackUp software to back my important files up to my .mac account every night. Even if I had a fire or flood or had my computer stolen, I could have all of yesterday’s editing and other files back in my hands in minutes.

Check out .mac and iLife ’08 here:

http://www.apple.com/dotmac/idisk.html

http://www.apple.com/ilife/

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