TheOpenDoc.com was created merely a few months ago as a platform for organizing and collaborating on documents and tasks. The program is free to join and allows users to create multiple workspaces. Each workspace allows you to save text documents, post discussions, create tasks and mark them off when complete. It allows you to give other people access to the workspace and see, edit, and create new content, allowing for collaborations between colleagues or people in general. If not working on a team, there is a feature to make the workspace private, which would still give the user access to their work progresses on any computer with and Internet connection.
This program seems to have been created to benefit working people, but I can see benefits to it being used in a classroom setting. For example, with our conference groups we would be able to stay organized on what tasks need to get completed, what we have completed, and discuss the information we have come up with. This program is similar to BLS only has less features, such as a live chat.
TheOpenDoc.com has plans on adding new features to the program in the future such as file repository in workspaces, detailed permission settings for workspaces, advanced revision history for documents, creation of project plans/ GANTT charts directly in workspaces, and expanded user profiles. Once these new services are implemented I think the program would be a huge asset to anyone collaborating on a project.
Right now I would probably rate this program a 4, but when all it's new features are added I would give it a 5.
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