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.