Google Docs presentation

I have been working on this week's exercise This is a link to my presentation.




As for this week's question, "Is this the future of all software products? What do you think?",
it is an interesting idea. I think companies, research groups and libraries can make good use of this technology as long as they can keep items secure. That is a big concern for everything we have been learning about in the class. And the providers have to make sure there is a functioning business model to support this evolution. I read a comment about being able to work offline and then resubmit to the web afterwards. I think this will be a necessary aspect of the web office tools. The only concern I have is the permanence of the documents. Users would still have to make sure that they are backing up documents on their own computers so that they have access to a hard copy as well as the on-line version.

It seems that at my institution, we have done this already in having shared drives. Web Office tools do this on a larger scale.