Not quite uber-geekery, but close

While I was in the shower this morning I was thinking about an online collaboration space for our annual school auction. Yes I was. Well, I knew that Google Docs was out there and I had played around with it a bit in thinking of ways that I could use it to record the Live Auction results and have them fed back to the registration table in real time and it looked very promising. Another online collaboration space that may look even more promising is one called Zoho. One of the cool things about Zoho is the ability to construct and script entire database-driven applications and launch them in a collaborative online environment.

This actually means something. I could, for example, construct the registration forms in Zoho and have the fields that record what each person has won populated as they win items in the Live and Silent auctions. This will all be done automatically and greatly improve the check out experience and time it takes to get everyone through the line at the end of it all.

Empowering all of this experimentation is the wireless network connection we set up last year at the auction site. We had a web server that allowed for access to the internet and access to all of these tools. Of course we could just set up a server to store commonly accessed files as well. That way we could read in information from the results spreadsheets into the registration forms and avoid manual entry of the results into them.

But AJAX, JavaScript, mashups - all of the Web 2.0 stuff - is so much cooler than that.


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