Abstract: A method of facilitating real-time data distribution and collection among office productivity software applications running on each of a plurality of source and destination processors. The source and destination processors communicate over a distributed data processing network through a real-time data server. Data related to a specific topic is received by the real-time data server from the office productivity software processing application running on one or more of the source processors. The data is disseminated in real-time, via the real-time server, to the office productivity software application running on each of the destination processors.