Google Wave Document Management Features
Google Wave is being called a fix for communication overload because it combines many communication needs neatly into one package. One of these communication needs is document management.
About Google Wave Document Management Features
Documents in Google Wave are simply a Wave or threaded conversation.
You create a wave; then you start typing your document or copy an existing document into wave.
For example: Perhaps you are writing a requirements document and you want it to be a joint effort from your entire team. You would then add all the people as participants in this conversation and send it to them.
As soon as you do that, it shows up in their wave inbox. They can add their edits in real time, as you watch, in fact, everyone can edit the document simultaneously. This is a vast improvement over sending the document around and around in email or keeping a copy on a server that people edit one at a time. As it is being edited, remarks can be typed in at any spot in the document.
The Wave or conversation can also be a repository for storing other waves, so that links to many documents that relate to a certain topic can be kept in a wave.
Pictures can easily be added to the document and the Wave supports 40 different languages. So if part of your team speaks only French, online translation is available so that communication between you can be instant and correct.
If people are added to the conversation late in the process, they can use the playback functionality to see exactly what has transpired. And if there is a need for a private conversation you can make your comment private to whoever you want and others will never see them.
You can view a video about live concurrent editing and many other features of Google wave at http://wave.google.com.
