Collaborative authoring

I have had a number of conversations with people over the last few days and weeks regarding online collaborative tools. Of course there are Wikki's but  while being an excellent tool a Wikki would not actually provide a rich enough experience for a lot of people. There are a number of hosted productivity tools now available on the web that  provide great authoring environments combined with "designed  in" collaborative tools.

Below are the links to two online authoring tools that in my view provide a richer experience than a standard Wikki. The first is Buzzword a very nice online word processor with built in collaboration capability. The second is Sliderocket an online presentation application also with some very nice collaborative capabilities.  This application also allows you to be able to track activity related to your presentations in terms of visits,  down to individual slides etc.

I use both and can recommend them.  Worth a look if your are interested in that sort of thing.