8. Take a poll
Google Wave will let you create and manage a poll with ease.
Whether you're wondering if employees will be psyched about the latest pay raise, or are curious to know who will be attending your birthday party, you can uncover the truths to these and more by using a Google Wave poll. To do this, you’ll need to make sure that the Yes/No/Maybe Gadget is installed by visiting the Settings > Extension Settings Wave.
Once you have it installed, create your Wave as normal, except this time you’ll have a new option in the edit bar. When you select the new gadget, you’ll see a large Yes, No, and Maybe? section in your Wave. When people click on the words, their picture and name will be listed under the selected section. In addition, a running count will be displayed under each of the columns.
9. To-do Lists
Many people use different to-do applications on their Mac and iPhone, but with Google Wave you can keep your to-do list in one place you can frequently visit. Plus, Google Wave will also work quite well on your iPhone (although this functionality is currently in alpha).
Just create a wave like you normally would, making use of font colors, size, bulleted lists, and numbering to keep track of your different lists. Plus, you can share your list with collaborators when you need to share your schedule or to-dos. We use a mix of bulleted lists and highlighting to mark our near-due tasks. When a task is completed, you can use a strikethrough.
To access your Google Wave to-to list on your iPhone, navigate to wave.google.com in mobile Safari. Once you sign in, it may tell you that Wave works best in other browsers, but it's fine to tap continue.
10. Goodbye ListServ, hello virtual bulletin board
A lot of companies and educational institutions make use of ListServs to share information to the individuals subscribed to them. Google Wave has a similar ability built right in without having to use an additional email server or service.
Simply create a new Wave, add collaborators, and use it as a virtual bulletin board. As collaborators add new content, the old content can get bumped down to create a chronological time line of digital information. When a recipient wants to catch up on news, they can use the Playback functionality (located in the edit bar when viewing a wave).
Using Google Wave in this manner shows the true potential of hosted email. Solutions like a ListServ can be brought into a new era and still maintain their charm.
11. Play a game
When you just want to take a break from your communication, you could turn to online social games, or you could also stay right in Google wave to play a nice game of Sudoku or Chess.
You can enable the Wave Sudoku game by navigating to Settings > Extension Settings > Install Wave Sudoku. Once you installed this add-on, you'll be able to enable it from your Google Wave inbox. To play the game, simply type the numbers 1 through 9 in the blocks, or 0 to return to a blank block. When you complete a game, you have the abliity to start a new one.
To play Chess, you’ll need to add a custom gadget. To do so, edit the Wave and select the custom extension button from the edit menu. From the Add Gadget from URL box, paste in:
http://gerculanum.appspot.com/gadgets/com.example.chessgadget.client.ChessGadget.gadget.xml
Click Add. Now you can play a game of Chess against yourself, or a recipient of the Wave.
12. Create a publicly editable Wiki solution
When you mix Google Wave and multiple HTML webpages and Wave embeds, you can create a fully editable website or Wiki. Sure, it’s not a wiki in the same sense that other wiki solutions are, but the pages will be openly available to the public using the Embeddy contact on the web, and fully editable to the users who are added to the Wave.
To do this, simply create a Wave as normal and add to it the list of editors. Use the Embeddy contact as used in #6 and embed the multiple waves (one for each page) into your website. You can then link to other pages that contain Wave embeds.
The best part of all of this: The Wave embed will update in real time whenever someone is editing the Wave.
13. Send Newsletters
Newsletters within companies, schools, or other organizations can keep people informed on what’s going on. Far too often, these newsletters are hand-coded with HTML and take too much time to create and manage. With Google Wave, you can send around better newsletters that can take advantage of rich, embedded gadgets, files, images and even YouTube videos.
Plus, you can add multiple collaborators for creating and sending newsletters, so you’re not all alone when it comes to compiling the content.
14. Group Meeting Tool (with Ribbit)
Conference calls via phones used to be a pain to create and follow through with, but with Google Wave and an add-on, they’re as simple as typing an email. To create a conference call, you must install the Ribbit extension by going to Settings > Extension Settings.
To start a call, simply add the attendees as recipients of the Wave and have them enter their phone number into the Ribbit extension by clicking Add My Number next to their name and profile picture. Once all of the numbers has been entered, start the call by pressing the Start Conference button. After a few minutes, Ribbit will connect all of the participants and an Active green button will be displayed beside their names. The entire Wave will also be notified when the caller hangs up.
The Ribbit Conference Gadget is a very simple, but extremely powerful tool for people that rely on phone conferencing.
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January 22, 2010 at 10:40am
I am going to keep it simple. Remember when everyone thought twitter was stupid and useless
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January 20, 2010 at 12:29am
Clearly Google Wave is not for everyone. Just for folks who are willing to learn a new and unique way of sharing every type of digital media in one online venue - IN REAL TIME. Sounds like the writer of this comment: "Wave is a waste of time" - Submitted by rstites950 on Thu, 2010-01-14 04:54 - would be satisfied with chalk and a green chalkboard. Fine, if that is all you need, turn off the computer, man - your carbon footprint is too big already!! There is NO other apparent online product besides Google Wave that I am aware of that offers such a range of collaborative abilities at any price, let alone for FREE.
palenoue
January 19, 2010 at 1:21pm
I have little use for Wave right now. As others have commented, I already use other tools for these functions and training my friends and collaborators to use Wave would be too much work for too little return.
However, if they added a whiteboard where you could easily add graphics on the fly, along with layers that can be assigned for individual people involved in the online meeting, zoom in/out and pan around the board, then we would jump on it in a second!
And if Adobe added this feature and put in various options, such as importing a deck of cards and a shuffle function, it would be popular among gamers or bridge clubs where the members move to different cities/states/countries but still want to game together.
kwameshearrod
January 22, 2010 at 1:15pm
Your ideas for wave are pretty amazing and quite doable. There has to be a way you can package to thoughts to make them happen. If not perhaps you could use some assistance. While you have little use for wave right now I can defiantly see you finding a use for it in the future to develop the very ideas you spoke about. I also Read your profile: A very creative person who would like to find a job as game designer because there are so many games for the Mac and iPhone that, while very well made, aren't fun to play. Unfortunately, while I can create games in real life that people enjoy playing for years, I have no programming skills, which means no game company will hire me. I would like to say this. Steve Jobs was no programmer but we are writing on a website devoted to a company he built around an idea. If your ideas are as good as you say they are. I think we should talk more.
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January 19, 2010 at 12:22pm
And if so, chief2224 already points out, most enterprises will already have tools in place for colaboration, such as Outlook and the MS Office Suite including Office Communicator.
Your average Facebook user can already share comments, notes, and pictures. The only thing they're missing is filesharing and document colaboration. But I doubt your average Facebook user is going to need those tools.
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January 18, 2010 at 9:08pm
Google Wave is certainly a work in progress, as spfjr points out, but I can definitely see the potential for a tool such as this one. The problem for early adopters, like some of the people here, is that there simply isn't critical mass around the tool usage. Sure, Google Wave could change how I connect with my family around the world. But a.) getting them all to use Google and b.) teaching them how to use Google Wave is a huge challenge. I think the most immediate application for Wave is as a collaboration tool for small companies to use within the enterprise, as well as with vendors, clients, etc. Most large enterprises already have tools to do some or most of what Wave does. But for smaller companies without such solutions, Wave could deliver significant value with little to no cost. Overall, I'm eager to see how Wave develops.
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January 15, 2010 at 8:39pm
'Everyone in the same room'? Too funny - I'm in New Zealand, I have a sister in Ireland and a brother in HK, now should I pay around nzd$12,000 for flights to get us in the same room or should I use free Google Wave? hmmm let me think about that! Ohhh and of course I need to communicate with a client in Japanese although I don't speak a word of her language. Oh heck, now I need air fares as well as a translation service or perhaps I just need Google Wave, I wonder what that will cost me.
I'm male, blond and Irish so things have to be simple, Google Wave is exactly that and it didn't take 3 days to figure it out. Incidently here's a great Google Wave learning site http://waveconsultancyandtraining.com/ just about a one stop shop, except it's all free.
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rstites950
January 14, 2010 at 5:54am
I think this article is nothing more than a ssales pitch. Goggle wave does nothing special. I used it for about three days and found that unless everybody was on it all the time it provided to real benifit. Besides, I do not need nor do I want to colaborate all of the time. On any team, people have responsibilities and skills that do not require constant updateing and monitoring. If a project is that critical, you will be better served putting everybody in the same room.
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January 15, 2010 at 3:14pm
I had to create an account simply to reply to the sheer ignorance of rstites's comment.
First, you do your argument a great disservice by misspelling words that my 11-year-old brother could spell correctly. I pray that I never have a team leader who cannot spell "updating," let alone the product that are criticizing.
Second, this product is still in beta development. Of course, it's a sales pitch. The biggest problem I've seen with Wave, besides the lack of users, is the fact that I'm still figuring out what I can use it for. This article serves to inform readers of the different tools that are being developed for Wave, as well as the different ways in which people have found it to be useful. That being said, there are some uses on this list that I find better served with other tools (the task list, for example). But that doesn't negate the rest of the list, which I found to be rather informative.
Third, have you considered that perhaps other people have different needs than you? If you ran a business around the advent of email but found that it didn't serve your needs, does that necessarily mean that it is "a waste of time" for everyone else? You suggest "putting everybody in the same room" for critical projects. What an insightful idea! Why hadn't I thought of that? I work on such a community-source project, which has developers in England, South Africa, and various states in the US. This would've been the perfect solution to our location and time-zone problem.
tldr: Wave is still evolving, as are its uses. This list is a good summary of ways in which Wave might be useful to those who are open-minded and patient enough to give it a try.
