This document discusses Google Wave and provides tips for using it. Google Wave is a real-time communication and collaboration tool that allows for wiki-style editing, file sharing, embedding content, and integration of robots/extensions. Examples are given of robots that can integrate stock prices or post to blogs. Both advantages and disadvantages of Wave are outlined. Tips are provided on how to navigate waves and share content within waves. The document concludes by inviting the sharing of additional Wave tips and tricks.

1. To Wave OrNot To Wave Robert Slagter

2. To Wave OrNot To Wave 2 Is it a particleor a Wave?Is it a conversationor a wiki? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDu2A3WzQpo&hl=nl

3. Waves, wavelets, blips, what?! To Wave Or Not To Wave 3

4. Features Real-time communication Wiki functionality Extensions: Robots (tocgen@appspot.com) Gadgets Playback Drag-and-drop file sharing Embeddability To Wave Or Not To Wave 4

5. Examples of robots Stocky: Detectsreferences to organizations and addsreal-time stock information Bloggy: Posts Wave content to a blog Tweety: A bot to automaticallyinserttweets (from a specificperson, or a specific topic) in a wave To Wave Or Not To Wave 5

6. To Wave… To Wave Or Not To Wave 6 “What e-mail wouldbelikeif we inventedittoday” Goodfor: gatheringresponses online brainstorming, organizinganevent cross-orgcollaboration Open source: option to run the server in-house

7. … OrNot To Wave? Live typing is somethingyou have to getused to Really… Difficult to converge a threadeddiscussion:what are the outcomes? User interface still complex Notforconfidential / criticalinformation! (Onlywithpeoplewith a Google Wave account) To Wave Or Not To Wave 7

8. Demo time! To Wave Or Not To Wave 8

9. Wave Tips & Tricks Space: jump to the nextedit in a wave To insert a reply: select text and press <enter> or double click and choose ‘reply’ Insert a reply at the end: Shift + Enter To make a wave public: add the following participant: public@a.googlewave.com toe YouTube video: paste URL in wave and click ‘embed’ Link to a wave: drag & drop from the search results(thenyoualsosee the URL of the wave) Quick message to a person? Use “Ping” instead Shareyour tips & trickson Wave! (contact me) To Wave Or Not To Wave 9