> For a while now it seems like there are a lot of people raving about > Dropbox and TiddlyWiki. > I'd like to investigate collaboration in a small group.
I have used Dropbox and TW to share information with my research students as a one-way communication (they don't change the TW). What's nice about this is that there tend to be lots of files we need to share, and using Dropbox means all I have to do is put them in a folder system with links in the TW and voila! everyone has the files on their own computers. We have also used a Dropbox/TW combination quite successfully to manage documents and information for a faculty search. The TW had a form for basic information about each candidate and links to electronic versions of their documents; all is in a Dropbox folder and thus again everyone has all the files. Here, anyone in the group could add comments, notes, rankings, etc. This works pretty well but bumps up against the limitation that ordinary TWs really aren't designed for multi-user editing. I did the big edits at night, and most times other users needed to edit only briefly, so they opened, edited, saved and Dropbox caught up quickly. But sometimes someone would leave their copy in edit mode for a while, during which time someone else edited and saved, or two users would just happen to be editing at the same time. The good thing is that Dropbox tracks this and saves both versions (one as "XXX's conflicted copy"). The bad thing is that someone (me) then has to compare the files and reconcile them. Hope that helps, Jon -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
