Google Wave and Trucking
Posted on Dec 10, 2009 - 1:19am by Wayne Weisser in Trucking
I’ve had Google Wave for a few months now, but without other people with a common goal in mind, it’s more like a hammer with no nails. It’s a good tool to hit stuff with, but you can’t build anything. The only manual besides a few help videos is The Complete Guide to Google Wave, it’s free to read online and is constantly updated because Wave isn’t quite finished yet.
I now have a limited number of invites to handout, the only requirement is a good idea. Read the Guide, watch a few of the videos, come up with how best to use Wave for Trucking. Another limitation on the invites is they’re not immediate and it may be awhile before an invite is fulfilled on the other end and of course you need a Google account. Once you get your Wave, you may get your own invites later on to use as you wish.
If you could get 10 or 20 people together to collaborate as a team on a project that has something to do with trucking what would it be? If I get a some good ideas, I’ll put them up for a vote, then see who wants to join that project to get a Wave invite. There’s no rush, no real time limit, check out the Guide, the videos and look around at wave.google.com and let’s find something to actually make trucking better for everyone instead of just complaining about it or just an idea to make our jobs easier or how would you personally be able to use Wave in your day to day trucking job.
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I too have Wave and while as a collaborative tool it looks like it will be a nice app, I too have been trying to figure out how I could best use this to my advantage within my company or truck. I dont know perhaps a collaborative on routes, alternative routes to specific destinations. I am working with it, but again trying to find a niche to use it.
Wayne,
Wave is new to me, I’ll check it out.
Mike
I have had wave for awhile now, still trying to figure out the in’s and out’s of it. Looks like something that could be of great use to everyone.
From what I can see is that it will probably be like email once everyone gets it. Ideas for a trucking company…. carriers, brokers and customers are too secretive, nothing is going to be collaborative. It could be like email among friends with multimedia, but twitter is like that if you add in all of the twitpics and other sites that support twitter.
Skype has conference calls and conference chats, there are several webcast meeting sites for any sort of training or presentation. I’ve seen a lot of people saying they can’t figure out how to use it.
Maybe Google was too far ahead of its time, all of the features can be done by several programs, but Wave does combine many tools and abilities into one program.
Unless you want to write a book or write a computer program or run a magazine site with a large team not sure what else Wave could be used for.
Got to really think out of the box on this one.