To celebrate the final launch of doingText, we started a contest. You could win free accounts by mentioning us on the internet and providing the link in our contest-discussion. The accounts are valid for a lifetime.
Now is the time to name our winners. As it suits the Web2.0, I asked my twitter followers to draw the numbers.

Our congratulations for winning a Large plan go to:
Marilyn Mossman
Lucien Engelen
David Peter

Our congratulations for winning a Medium Plan go to:
Jannis
Karen Chichester
Mark Carls
Alan
Hendrik Spree

And last but not least, congratulations for a Small plan go to:
Mark James Adams
internetparabobos
tiredviolinist
Lukas Rieder

We have informed all the winners by email and upgraded your account. If you haven’t received a note by now, please leave a comment or mail us: katrin@doingtext.com

After the incredible Berlin Web Week, the next somehow-webtwopointO-event is going to happen. On Dec, 12th hallenprojekt.de and Markus Albers (author of “Morgen komm ich später rein“) present “Schöner arbeiten” - THE coworking event of the year here in Berlin. It’s held at the newthinking store (google maps) from 9 a.m. till 8 p.m.

The event is about coworking, new tools for working in the context of the interweb, jobs of employees becoming more and more project-like-work and standards that change for all of us. The program offers loads of interesting panels. There will be time for short presentations (Got a project? Present it there!). And last but not least, there’s an extra room for the core topic of the day: coworking.

Coworking, by the way, “is the social gathering of a group of people, who are still working independently, but who share values and who are interested in the synergy that can happen from working with talented people in the same space.”

And how will doingText be part of that? Alex and I will present doingText, but more generally it’ll become a meet & greet. New forms of work need new kinds of tools. We’ll spend the day talking about how organizing work changes and has to change in order to fit the habits of a more and more digitalized world.

So, we hope to see you there. Oh, almost forgot. Entry is free and there’ll be lots of WLAN in there.

More information and the detailled program is to find on the Hallenprojekt’s blog.

So… We had our first public presentation of doingtext here at the BarCamp Berlin. Now, that deserves a short yay! It went very well. We received very positive feedback by most of the people attending the session. Me, I tend to believe, it was the cat content that made it… But no, that’s not really true. There were lots of folks being interested in the tool. Responses like “Oh shit, that doingtext thing would’ve been perfect for my last project!” brings little smiles into my face. Plus, the questions brought in the discussion brought a clearer view on what kind of collaboration and text types doingtext can help the most.
We embedded the presentation into a broader review of text collaboration tools, beginning with the analog way of working face-to-face and with a pencil and paper. From there on we drew the line to the digital universe and took a deeper look at how the analog way of text collaboration is handled by the digital world and how things can be made even easier with the technique. In the following days I will probably bring some more content on this. Maybe even some cats…

For now the first day of the BarCamp is over. But before the evening begins, I would like to bring a big THANK YOU to Jan for spreading the word - and doing that very successful!

And for those of you being in berlin the next days: Our second presentation while the Berlin Web Week will be at the Webmontag. Hope, we’ll see you there.

Tomorrow is our first public presentation of doingtext. We got really excited while preparing our talk so we called our designer and told him to create some T-Shirts for us - in addition to the 300 flyers with invite codes we are going to hand out tomorrow. 3 hours later he came to the office with T-Shirts and flyers. Here is a photo:

See you tomorrow at the barcamp.

In the next days, Berlin will be the center of the German and even of the international internet community: Berlin Web Week is ahead. And with it, some exciting days will come.

This weekend will see Alex and me at the BarCamp Berlin 3. We plan to hold a session about text collaboration and its tools. What is required by the tools? Which tools are out there and how do they all meet the needs of the collaborators? (Yes, we will have a closer look at our competitors.) What is the difference between talking about and working together on a text while meeting in real life to the situation of working on it over the internet? These are the gross frames within which we want to talk about text collaboration.
To speak frankly, this will of course help us with the development of doingtext. But furthermore text collaboration tools give a good hint on how working situations change with the possibilities of the internet and their world wide connections.
If you’d like to attend our session and have further ideas or questions, please feel free to put them into the comments.

The second chance to meet us will be on Monday. We will present doingtext at the Webmontag. This takes place at the newthinking store (Tucholskystr. 48 in Berlin-Mitte) and will begin at 8 p.m. We are the first on the schedule, so have your dinner ready by then and enjoy our presentation.

On both events we will also spread invitation codes so you can start using doingtext at once.

Berlin Web Week. Be there or be square.