Thaidoweb 2008

Document Manager and Version History
In previous articles I have discussed the usefulness of a document manager, such as groupware, in organizing document sharing. I have also discussed the role that a Version History plays in a good document manager. In this article I wish to elaborate on Version History and its ability to make or break your document manager. The reason a document manager benefits so much from Version History is that Version History presents a visual flow chart of [...]

What is Groupware?
Have you ever had to manage document collaboration in a hurry? No need to be ashamed if you said “yes.” Virtually every American business has experienced moments of ad hoc team collaboration. In other words, the ideal business collaboration method involves meticulous record keeping and organization; all deadlines are met; nobody feels rushed. That doesn’t sound very realistic, does it? The important thing is that even scattered, ad hoc business collaboration can be organized in such a way [...]

How to build the ideal website for software archives. View from developer.
Advantages for developers
Why developers come to your archive? What do they want to find?
They wish to make their software popular!

Be open! Easy and quick submitting is the best way to attract the developers.
Do not ask for money from the developers for submitting. Sell software, sell advertising, and sell deep reviews – that’s your source of income. And never demand for the back link!
Use Portable Application Description (PAD)! PAD is [...]

Every organization which creates collaborative documents, whether they are budgets, presentations, reports, spreadsheets, or other documents recognizes that collaborative efforts are requirement. That collaboration always forces the 5 eternal document collaboration questions: Who? What? Where? When? How? The reason I refer to them as eternal is that every day businesses are faced with these questions and rarely find the answers when they collaborate on documents.
Business frantically searched for groupware solutions that answers the 5 questions of document collaboration, and this [...]