Travel & Humanitarian Photos
Tim Humble, aka fotofugitive, has kindly shared an invitation to get a Google Wave account. Each account comes with the opportunity to invite eight more people to use Google Wave and I’m offering a couple of invitations to you, dear readers.
However, as I’m still learning exactly what Google Wave can do, I’m inviting you to suggest ways in which I might use Google Wave. Is it simply another social networking tool? Is it a venue for collaboration? Is it best used for sharing information or for publishing news? Leave your ideas and suggestions in the comments box below, together with your name and e-mail address. The most illuminating responses will receive a Google Wave invitation.
Also, if you’re already using Google Wave, please let me know in what ways you have found it most useful. How are you using it in your daily work – or maybe you’re not. Do you keep up to date with family and friends via Google Wave? What is a “wave”, exactly? All hints, tips, comments and suggestions welcome.
Recently, I too received a Google Wave account. I have tinkered with it a bit but still not aware of all it’s capabilities. It’s more of a collaboration, I suppose. I still have 7 invites left as well.
Feel free to add me: snapcutter@googlewave.com
For me, Googlewave is mainly for saring ideas, working together with our colleagues and don’t have to be in the same place.
As a photographer and retoucher, I use googlewave to discuss about my work with clients who aren’t in Thailand. I can online together with them, send them some of my file and get immediately response about what I’ve to do more. Something like that.
You can add me into your contact at adler.thai@googlewave.com
I mainly see Google Wave as email 2.0, a more interacitve email communication. It’s something inbetween email and chatting I think. I’m only using it to communicate with friends for now.
I’ve seen places where they have integrated Google Wave into a blog. Instead of adding a comment on the blog like I’m doing now a wave is created and embedded into the blog post and readers can communicate in a more interactive way on Google way instead.
I’m roger(dot)madsen(at)googlewave(dot)com, feel free to add me!
Gavin
Google wave is a realtime collaboration tool that really comes into its own when you want multi-language, real time, multi-point collaboration and you want to be able to add a number of different types of data and content in real time
It can integrate with blogs, IM, twitter, social networks. Its power is that unlike other messaging and collaboration tools you see the typing in real time (you can turn this off if it spooks you!). It also allows for realtime translation and has intelligence built in to autocorrect spelling AND semantics.
So for example, if you were mentoring a chinese, Thai, English and Canadian (I wonder who I mean!) on some group work, they can type in their local languages and see all the other collaborators posts in their languages. So you see everything in English, the chinese in Mandarin etc. In real time. (this gets over that dreadful IM/chat delay where your responses quickly get out of synch).
But the power of Google wave is that you can invite others to join midway through a collaboration – they can see the history and they can contribute all sort of different data types – they can add maps, widgets, cut and paste from blogs. Think of it as Tweetdeck/ IM/Skype/Wordpress/Facebook all combined and on steroids. One central place for all messaging and collaboration.
I’ve been piloting it with colleagues for a few weeks now. It takes a while to adapt, but I think there could be some fascinating angles for you in particular:
real time multinational seminars
Portfolio reviews.
Shoot and discuss collaborations
Joint project work.
For NGO work it could be incredibly powerful as their is no cost involved an no language barrier
Bangkok school of Photography ALumni network/collaboration environment
Its real power comes when you start to mashup sources. ie you are Chatting with a colleague, you add a map, update your blog with the outcome of the discussion form Googlewave, create survey and invite 3 NGOs to participate – all from the same application
a post I did a few weeks back might also be helpful:
http://www.marcoryan.com/blog/is-google-making-waves.html
I am considering it for the Charitable foundation work I mentioned to you, especially for the judges to be able to assess and collaborate on the competition
You can add me to your contacts as marco.ryan1@googlewave.com
Still wondering what to do with it myself. I got an invite, so I am surfing the wave… well, not really. I logged in once, got impatient, and left. Not sure what to do with it. The thing Marco said about realtime translation sounds cool though.
Thanks for the link Gavin. It will certainly be interesting to see where all this leads. While I’m also still trying to figure it out, I can see potential for group collaboration/meetings/planning sessions over longer periods of time (as opposed to a regular short skype or MSN chat). I think it allows users to add content and contribute to the conversation at their leisure. For those interested in humanitarian & cultural photography with a dash of international development content, you can add me via fotofugitive[at]googlewave[dot]com – Looking forward to the seeing the creative ways to use GW that people will inevitably come up with. – Cheers!
Gavin, I’m a loyal reader of your blog and I’m interested in receiving one of your wave invitations. i’ve heard all about it but have not had the opportunity of an invite.
Josh
P.S. I like the new look for the site!!!
Hi, I regularly use Google tools, such as apps, blog, Gcal, tasks, etc…
I would like to receive a GWave invitation to explore this promising tool.
Thanks in advance.
I was wondering if anyone could possible send me an invite to google wave. I have a short film production that is in the start and i am the assistant director and i think having a wave account would really help with communication.
Thanks
charles
caugello@live.ca
Hello. If there´s an invite I could use one! Thanks!
eeroritala@gmail.com