Google Wave in Business

Google Wave is an Open-source
Google Wave is an open-source platform that is completely free. What more could you ask for in a product or service?

Communication
Rosy is a Wave-bot (currently unavailable in Wave Preview for the time being)  that translates users’ conversations. This is an amazing tool for both tech support, a global office which we cover further in the list, and world-wide market research.

Document Collaboration
Creating a wave (not Google’s Wave but an individual ‘wave’ to communication/collaborate/create in) to collaborate on documents is top of the ‘best features on Google Wave’ list. Possible to create public and private waves, add a small team, and limit who can see/edit/contribute.
This is great for inner office memos or if you have a team around the world and only want one document as an end product versus ten to compile. This also shows who edited or contributed what and in what order with the wonderful ‘Playback’ feature.

Wave Business Profile
Waves can be made public and the whole world (on Wave anyway) will be able to see it. Would be ideal to have a ‘Business Profile’ established to enable if any one is searching for your business on Wave, Profile could include your business name, address, contact information and office hours. With the great ‘map’ widget, it is possible to give customers a visual representation of where your business is located.
 With yet another great feature the ‘Yes/No/Maybe’ gadget. Can see a visual representation of each vote, who voted and even allow for comments under this gadget for all your market survey for your questions such as ‘Do you like our company?’

Email Marketing
Email marketing is a great concept and crucial to a lot of business connections. This way you can offer your customers outstanding and exclusive offers. A great way to implement email marketing into your Wave account is to create a wave connected to your business profile.
It is all free is the best part of it when compared to conventional email marketing services where you pay for your list and per-email you send
Save Time and Money : Inner office and email
Create a wave and add the document to the wave. Add your contact list ‘Editing Team’. Watch as your team responds in real time to your wave.
This saves resources that would have been wasted printing multiple copies and saved time by not needing to condense multiple responses you would have had to do with email.

Market Research and Polls
Possible to create another adjacent wave from your business profile and make the title ‘Which feature do you prefer?’ and write ‘One vote per person please’ Underneath your title, place several Yes/No/Maybe gadgets, with a name of a product or service over each one.
Also Possible to add your ‘customer contact list’ in Wave. See who responds, what they think and see how they vote. No data to condense and it is all available in real-time.
(A future bot that is currently being tested is Polly the Poll bot which enables you to have multiple answers for a question beyond Yes/No/Maybe Still in testing.)

User-Friendly
As a matter of opinion, but many find Wave very user friendly. It should be rather easy to integrate into your business.

Build a Global Team
A favorite part about Wave. Contact lists such as ‘Office’, ‘Edit Team’ etc. multi-lingual communication is a breeze with Rosy. All these features combine to make a perfect interface for creating global teams.
Possible to have multiple teams from all over the globe, watch in real time as they work on assigned projects, have condensed data and understand all users in your native language (thanks to Rosy). A favorite concept of Wave and sure! business will jump at the opportunity.

Monitor Work Performance
Work performance is always a big deal with businesses. Can make sure you have team players on your team, that there is equal contribution and that everyone is pulling their weight. With the playback feature, you can see who is saying/contributing/editing what and get a great way to keep your employees and coworkers honest

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