Thing 9 - Collaboration tools

What an interesting way to do things! I haven't used Google docs before, but I think I will be in the future. What an interactive way to have many people look & edit one document! (I wish this was around when I was getting my MLIS!) I did not have time to look at Zoho, but am very happy with the ability to see what changes have been made, and who made them. It looks like Google docs has just about all its bases covered in that you have options for adding images, tables, and also in having the ability to export the document in a variety of formats. Very cool Thing!!

I didn't include all my corrections to the Google doc, but here is my new edition of page 1:

Sometimes, in the course of history, it becomes necessary for a group of people to end the political ties which have connected them with each other and to become a separate and equal body to which the laws of nature and God entitle them. When this happens, it is necessary that they should express the reasons which make it necessary for them to become individuals.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all people are created equal, regardless of race, gender, or religion, that they are endowed with God given rights including life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. To secure these rights, governments are instituted, and derive their powers from the consent of the governed. Whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of those so governed to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that the governed are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right and duty to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the United States is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.