Week 9- Cloud Computing

The module this week focused on cloud computing particularly, google docs and social bookmarkng. As we come into the global age, your partner on a project can live clear across the world. Thus limiting the opportunity to meet and work together on documents and plans. In this module we learned that cloud computing offers a solution by allowing you and others users to work on and share information on tolls such as Google docs. Google docs functions like a wiki it allows you to save edit and view changes on a document that is available for multiple persons to edit. An example that is given is creating a list and each person erasing an item on the list that has been purchased.

Cloud computing could prove to be really essential tool for public relations. Tools such as social bookmarking and google docs could be utilized in the pre-planning aspect of public relations. Task lists, press releases, and event description can all be manipulated by the whole project team. For myself, I am interested in being a political consultant. I feel that I could definitely edit promotional items and work on them with my team across the country if we were promoting a political figure during his campaign.