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Google Wave

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New advances in internet technology usually go straight over my head. The buzz about Google Wave became too strong for me to ignore and last night, as I sat through the one and a half hour long keynote speech, I began to feel like I was witnessing something quite amazing.

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Naturally, as I watched the Google Wave keynote speech, I began to think about ways I could apply this communication and collaboration technology to the type of work I do. I was thinking of all the tiny interactions between the many different parties involved in the process of creating something like a company annual report and accounts. A challenging, technical job which is usually required within a relatively short time-frame and pulls in a wide range of human resource:

Client side
managing directors, marketing managers and executives, department heads, accountancy staff

Agency side
client relationship managers, accountancy staff, creative directors, art directors, designers, artworkers

Freelance or outsourced
copy writers, editors, photographers, illustrators, translators, printers

I began to put together a workflow here in the blog of how all these people are connected throughout the process and where Google Wave could be of benefit (which pretty much turned out to be at every stage), but the scope was just too large and would have resulted in a very long, uninteresting post. I might write it up and create a PDF to be downloaded for anyone interested enough. I’ve also contacted Google and explained briefly how Wave could fit into my workflow, hopefully they’ll give me a few beta licenses to start trying it out.

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About the author

James Mattison is a British senior graphic designer based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) with a special interest in all things nicely put together.