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How to download Google Wave

Google Wave will be closed for editing after 31st of January, which leaves its users with the problems of export and choosing a new platform. All the GW users will be moving in different directions. This article is about robot: projectvolna@appspot.com we've made that comes useful in ...


Is there any alternative for Google Wave, apart from Wave in a Box?

According to the post published last week, from 31 Jan all waves will be read-only. Wavers have started looking for Google Wave alternatives. Google Wave concept lives on and here are the alternatives.

Apache Wave (another name is Wave in a Box WIAB)
If there is a qualified system administrator ...


From Google Wave to Node.js

Google Wave was announced in May 2009, we received invites in few month and began to study it. As GoogleDocs GW has the possibility of collaborative text editing, which uses OT technology. There are also some advantages: you can transform document sections into the “structure”, and add gadgets and robots ...


Google Calendar in team working and its synchronization with different types of mobile phones


What for we need synchronization
Planning by means of Google Calendar and its synchronization with mobile devices are very useful things, especially if you are a small team and you don't have team tools for task management. Google Calendar is also useful if you need automatization of your activity ...


Business exhibitionism in Google Wave

There is a rule in our organization - "Share your knowledge". We have noticed that the lack of awareness of employees increases greatly the lead time of different projects. Knowledge quickly becomes out-of-date and it can become useless if it is not shared.
So when we share the knowledge we get ...


3 in 1: discussions, tasks, documentation

There are 30 people working in our team. We develop zoom decisions for web. Our team members live in different cities: Tomsk, Saint-Petersburg and Moscow. To organize co-working we used task-tracker. During the process of developing there were different cases of useful best practice and there was a need to ...


Work and Travel in UA: Projectvolna team in Odessa

There are almost 30 people involved in the Project Volna. They live in different cities: Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Tomsk, London. Not all of them know each other personally. Moreover, more difficult tasks emerged and they demanded more active engagement. That's why we decided to get together: make better acquaintance, change ...


The service of collaborative text working

One of the most often and difficult problems in IT, and not only there, is collaboration in writing. The need of settling down such a problem can emerge in different cases:
  • phrasing the idea of start up and primary analisys;
  • writing the articles for blogs;
  • writing and approving PR-texts;
  • compilation ...


ProjectVolna — collaborative environment

Contextual collaboration in real time
Nowadays collaboration mostly consists of teamworking with information.
Here you can:
— ask questions and set tasks in the context without wasting time on extra descriptions;
— use MindMap for easier perception of the picture as a whole, and use drag'n'drop for changing the structure ...


Boosting the productivity of knowledge workers

The key is identifying and addressing the barriers workers face in their daily interactions.
Are you doing all that you can to enhance the productivity of your knowledge workers? It’s a simple question, but one that few senior executives can answer.
Their confusion isn’t for lack of trying ...