Re: Groove

[Solveig Haugland <solveig -at- techwriterstuff -dot- com>]

Hi,

I used Groove on a project with some authors I was editing and formatting for.
Here's a couple doh!s in my experience, though they have as much to do with the
project I used it on as the software itself.

- You still have to name your directories and file versions systematically. If
you are working with a different latest version of the file every day or worse,
then you still very much need your brain to keep track of things.
- It can be a wee bit tricky, or at least was in the Pro version I used a year
ago. Somehow once my version of it on my machine got set to "work offline" and
even though it looked very much like I had uploaded a file, and I could see it
online, it was not in fact online. Much ruckus ensued before we figured that one
out.

I think that Groove, like agile development and dieting, depends on who's doing
it. But yeah, it's a convenient enough tool. They give you plenty of disk space.
We used it for meetings and messages and stuff. I'd give it a thumbs up.

Solveig
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John Posada wrote:

> Hi, guys...first...this is not a marketing ploy, I have no stake in this
> application and my company is not in this business.
>
> I was wondering if anyone has ever used an application called "Groove".
> (http://www.groove.net/) for in-house team collaboration projects. It's
> a team collaboration application that let's you conduct meetings, share
> documents, maintain discussion forums, chats, etc. It also includes some
> tools, such as a project management application.
>
> My manager has been urged by his manager to have us look at it ever
> since Infoworld gave it a high recommendation.
>
>