Google not talking

We tried to have a group chat using Google Talk so that we could complete a group task for an assignment. It was hard enough to get three of us online at the same time (!) but then we discovered that we did not have the 'group' facility in GT. So with a quick bit of thinking, we decided to sign the others up for a Skype address and then we could have a 3-way conversation in Skype.

Then we discovered we needed to share a document - you can share files on skype but not one that you can all see synchronously. So we opened a file in Google Docs and discovered you can all edit a document and see each others' contribution. That was how we managed to complete the assignment.

A bit of a long way round - but it worked!