Google docs launches presentation tool

And Common Craft tells you why it matters!

On on Tuesday 18th September, Google announced the arrival of a new collaborative presentation tool which they call simply *presentation *. Annew member of the Google Docs suite (which already includes a collaborative Word Processor and a Spreadsheet application), *presentation* provides a web-based tool for creating and developing presentations. It’s not as capable as PowerPoint, but probably passes the 80-20 rule. Plus it’s collaborative (you can share presentation development duties with others) and web publishable. Here’s a quick and dirty presentation I made to test the tool and its sharing capabilities. If you’d like to test it’s collaboration capabilities, leave me a comment with your email and I’ll share it with you. In a carefully timed release, our friends at Common Craft, released another “plain english” video to explain why collaborative tools like Google Docs are important. It’s Google centric (presumably Google commisioned the video), but the central tenets apply to other collaborative systems even *sharepoint*. Are you ***listening ***dear colleagues of mine!

Here’s the video: