Sharing a document online is not something many people do yet. And for those of us with our toes in the water, it is usually a one-off thing. You want to share a spreadsheet around a single event, or are working with someone outside your organization. But as you get used to it, you become more comfortable and start using Google Docs more frequently or find one or two people who really like to work that way. At least that is what Google is hoping will happen, which is why it is making it easier for power sharers to use Google Docs by sharing entire folders. You can also now bulk upload multiple documents at once, instead of doing it one by one.
Before today, you could only upload and share documents one at a time. Now you can just dump as many as you like into a shared folder and share the whole set. (See details here). I can see shared folders now becoming shared workspaces on Google Docs. It’s kind of like Dropbox in that way. Actually, I’m surprised it took Google so long to introduce such basic features. If Google Docs is going to scale across the Web, it needs to encourage each user to upload and share as many docs as possible as a regular part of their workday.
But then, maybe we weren’t quite ready for it until now. Or maybe Google wasn’t. In any case, it’s been a highly-requested feature. Let the sharing begin.
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How to share folders in Google Docs – a nice get started guide: http://bit.ly/nLmoS
Was a bit of a no brainer but badly needed for some time now. The biggest problem is that the search is so good on Google docs that you never bother organizing stuff as you would offline in office or simialr products so it all ends up being one great big mess
I really like how quick new features get added to Google products lately. The more competition Google gets, the better their products. Good thing about the folder share is that it makes Docs way more user-friendly. I’ve been waiting for this since I use Docs.
This is a cool feature.
FINALLY!!
Sharing in Google Docs was always a pain, because 9 times out of 10, I wanted to share the same type of documents with the same set of people for group editing. It’s called a “project.” Rarely did I ever need to share a single one-off document to someone that wasn’t related to some sort of project. If this was the case, I would just send them a PDF instead.
What about Box.net? Those guys have made collaboration possible for ages!
I’m surprised no one has jumped on the Obama doc in there to turn this into a fantastic political commentary.
amazing options .. i read another blog about the same,, better…
http://www.tech...uduces-sharing/
a very good blog but lots of beatin aroun..
http://www.tech...uduces-sharing/
Google Docs reinvented the way I do schoolwork (and regular work). Waiting for a way to integrate docs in in Google Wave for faster editing.
Great .. finally it has come up with another nice feature .. which is really very useful ….
Best,
Daina