Welcome to the William and Mary Collaborative Writing Community.

Our goal is to provide a common forum for students, faculty and staff who are interested in exploring collaborative writing in all of its complexity. Our interests are legion, from "traditional" tools like Google Docs, blogs, wikis and discussion boards to emerging topics like Google Wave, Microsoft Live and a host of other tools emerging from the cloud. If you'd like to be a part of the discussion, just click on "Join This Wiki" and jump right in.

Why Collaboration is Important

According to the Gartner consulting group:

• Wikis are among the most significant developments in collaboration software during the past decade. Empowering users and democratizing hypertext content-based collaboration, wikis offer immediate advantages for many enterprise collaboration scenarios.... Effectively exploited, wikis offer significant opportunities to improve collaboration and content management. Enterprises that fail to manage wiki-based collaboration, however, face considerable security and compliance risks."

When we talk about collaborative writing in this (public) context, we

What's New Around Here?

Begin testing our new survey instrument on blogs, wikis and discussion boards.

Meetings and Training Sessions

• Hands-on Blogging Session
• BB 201 Sessions for the Spring

Contacts:

Gene Roche: earoch@wm.edu
Sharon Zuber:
Mark Hofer:
Evan Cordulack
Maria Elena Pada
Mike Blum