The use of 4 tools (Google Docs/Drive, Hangout, Facebook & Blogger) to aid working
collaboratively did however overcomplicate the process on a number of occasions. If you
discount for a moment that sharing everything on Facebook allows for certain bridges
between content and ideas, the biggest difficulty was locating where everything was especially
when there was a structural change to how the documentation was organised. Working in this
way was new to most of the participants and we were therefore unable to foresee that the
amount of work being produced quickly outgrew our original structure for organising
documents. When the inevitable reshuffle happened, links to documents posted on Facebook
became broken. The same would have been true even if we opted to use Google+ as the social
networking tool. Despite how well the tools were used they still did not fully resolve the real-
world issues of remote collaborative working, they certainly made sharing and contributing to
planning documentation easier. They were also successful at providing a platform to promote
the project formally to interested parties.