So the big hoohah at the moment is Google Wave.   I watched the video a while back  and completely forgot to sign up, so when the news was out that invites were out and being sold on E-Bay, I felt a bit like an outsider and being in the virtual business that is not a very good thing. 

Have you heard the saying: “It’s not what you know but who you know” and receiving an invitation this morning reminded me of how true this can be.

There I was a silly idiot in front of my laptop feeling all chuffed and excited that I got to be a part of the whole Google Wave experience, yeeehah and very grateful to the person who sent me an invitation. Thank you Geoffrey.

Busy with my work, I left it open and carried on with other things.  Later on viewing Twitter, someone posted something about Google Wave and I decided that it was time to have a bit of a play with Google Wave.

I’m not a “read the instructions/user guide kind of gal”, I’m more of “let’s jump in the deep end and see how I swim”.  If it is user friendly, I’ll stick around and give it more of my valuable time, if it is not easy and it looks like I’m going to have to read the user guide then I’ll weigh up my options and decide whether to move on and find something that does meet my needs and is user friendly or is it really that important that I need to grab the bull by the horns and make the time to read the user guide and do it step by step.

So here is my first day having access to Google Wave and what did I achieve. Very freaking little!!!

So far, I figured out it is pointless me adding my contact as I cannot WAVE with them.   It says they do not have a WAVE account. I can however add a contact and when I click on their email address it goes directly to my Outlook mailer and I email them from Outlook so pretty much functions on the same basis as it would if I clicked on an email address on a website I was visiting.

I then decided to watch the let’s get started intro that was sitting in my inbox and guess what I’m no further than I am when I first got the invite.

I clicked on search, added some key words and nothing happened but it did save my keyword title in my list. Yeehaah that is helpful, (yeh right)

I twittered about Wave and my colleague Steven Healey said I should add him as it only accepts people on WAVE, tried that, nope nothing happened.  Another colleague suggested I join his how to and must send him my WAVE address, “I HAVE ONE?”  ok, I have no idea what it is, where it is or how I can find it so I’m back to square one.

So here I am feeling like I am seriously going nowhere slowly and having to make a choice as to whether I have the time to read the instructions sllowwwly and work it out, or shelve it for when I must have it.

Google WAVE is making me feel really frustrated and very blonde today.

So I leave Google WAVE today thinking of this song and let’s see what I decide to do Tomorrow, I do however know the answer already, I just need to find the time.

Romany

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