When I saw that Google Docs had introduced a new Powerpoint-clone presentation mechanism a couple weeks ago, I decided that it would be a good way to share the Web 2.0 presentation that I’ve been posting as a massive “mind-map” for the past year or so … indeed, not just share it, but also make it possible for people to collaborate, and make revisions, corrections, and improvements to the material that I’ve been posting. It took more work than I expected, and it was a tedious process; more about that in a later blog. But it’s now done, and you can see the results; more importantly, you’ll be able to register as a “collaborator” and make your own changes to the document.

To view the on-line GoogleDocs version of the presentation, click here. I’ll be sending out invitations to various bloggers, consultants, friends, and other Web 2.0-savvy people that I think may be interested in collaborating to help enhance/improve the material. In the meantime, if you would like to become a collaborator, please send me an email message describing who you are, what your interest is in Web 2.0, and what kind of additions, corrections, and improvements you’d like to make. There’s probably a way to do that automatically through the Google Docs mechanism, but I haven’t figured that out yet.

For those of you interested in seeing the material, but who don’t care about collaboration or Google Docs, the presentation is also available as a 9.5-megabyte downloadable PDF file, which you can access by clicking here. And there’s another reason for doing so: it’s a much prettier, user-friendly presentation of the material, with “internal” links that let you navigate in a non-linear fashion to various topics within the 108-page document. Indeed, the Google Docs version reminded me of the main character in the popular U.S. TV show, “Ugly Betty”: efficient and cooperative, but not very attractive. By contrast, the PDF version of the presentation is … well, whoever the gorgeous, sexy character is on that show.

I’ll describe the process of creating the Google Docs and PDF documents in a later post, along with some impressions and experiences from the process, in a later posting. Meanwhile, enjoy the material — and let me know if you’d like to collaborate in future improvements to it!