Confluence
Intersect hosts Confluence, so you can contact Intersect through the Universities eResearch Computing group (ARCS) to get your own wiki space on our servers.

You can also buy Confluence from Atlassian. You can try it out online or download it at the Atlassian website: http://www.atlassian.com/.

Confluence is a user-friendly and flexible wiki with a lot of available plugins. It is a good choice for most applications and is offered by Intersect as a hosted service.

Unlike some wikis, Confluence is not free, so if you want to host it on your own server or need to make heavy use of it, there is a cost.

External (Intersect)

Google Docs
Google Docs is a web-based alternative to MS Office.

Available at no cost from:
http://docs.google.com.

It allows the user to share their files with other users and allow them to read and edit the files simultaneously. It also allows you to:

View your documents' revision history and roll back to any version.

Publish documents online to the world, as webpages or post documents to your blog.

Download documents to your desktop as Word, OpenOffice, RTF, PDF, HTML or zip.

Email your documents out as attachments.

• Google docs requires users to register for a Google account. The editors can only be accessed while the user is on-line. For off-line use, the files need to be downloaded to the computer and edited in a different editor.
• There may be some compatibility issues with MS Office documents.
• Consideration should be made to periodic copying of the documents for backup and recovery purposes
• Confidential documents or private information such as non-deidentified data should not be placed on Google Docs.

End User

Office Live
Office Live is a web-based version of Microsoft Office.

Available at no cost from
http://workspace.officelive.com/en-au/.

It allows users to share their files with others and allows them to read and edit the files. It has a revision history and allows the user to roll back to previous versions.

It integrates well with the desktop version of Office 2010 to open and save documents on the cloud.

• MS Office Live requires users to register for a Live account. Files can be managed and edited within MS Office Live only while the user is on line. For off-line use, the files need to be downloaded before the user goes off-line, and edited in a local editor.
• Consideration should be made to periodic copying of the documents for backup and recovery purposes
• Confidential documents or private information such as non-deidentified data should not be placed on Office Live.

End User