week 8; thing 18: online productivity tools

If someone told me I'd be using a web-based application today, I would have said, "What is that!!!?"..and now I'm really liking the one I'm using. I am typing this document from Zoho Writer where you can do everything Microsoft Word does and more. Not only that, you can publish your documents to your blog, (as will be the case with this when I am finished,) and share your documents with others over the internet. And I found out about more cool features from reading a zoho document that was created by Helene Blowers and edited by Jean Herriges and revised by me with the handy cut-and-paste feature I love so well

1) Your documents can be saved online, so you can access them anywhere and you don't have to carry your USB drive or a diskette around.

2) You can export this file as a Word or .txt file document, which makes it easy to use inside Word.

3) The email feature is easy to use also. It allows you to email this document as a Word file, .pdf document, HTML and many other options.

4) I like that you can publish documents as a public file so anyone (like you right now) can read it as a web page.

5) I also like that you can export a file as a .pdf document or HTML (this is very cool!!)

6) And if you like, you can also use Zoho as a text editor and then publish your document as a post on your Blogger blog.

How To

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HOW TO PUBLISH FROM ZOHO WRITER TO YOUR BLOG:

1. Create a document in Zoho Writer


2. Save it (as you would in Microsoft Word)


3. Click on PUBLISH (top menu bar)


4. Select "Post to Blog"


5. Follow the prompts. (FYI, username is email address)


6. Select "tag" or "draft"


7. View Blog now...you will find in it your draft if you selected that one...not sure what happens with tag...must try that later!

p.s you can edit your draft when you are in the edit mode of your blog, (as I am doing now,) but all the cool stuff, (smileys, colors, and odd symbols) are back in ZOHO...

http://www.writer.zoho.com/

week seven; thing 17: sandbox wiki

I love sand, the warmer the better. It's the perfect medium for burying things, (your brother's flip-flops, the rest of your pb & j, and definitely your heels, but not pretty toes) and making things, (castles, animals, tunnels, signs,)

This virtual sandbox has many of the same qualities.
The Maryland Libraries Sandbox is a wiki where you can play at creating a wiki. You can bury your mistakes and make new ones!

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undercover

grapefruit

week seven; thing 16: wikis

Here is my neat-o caption encapsuling the wiki idea. (I really like the word!) "Wiki" comes from the Hawaiian phrase "wiki wiki", which is commonly used to indicate something fast. It is a quick-to-build, easy-to-edit website on which all information can be edited, changed, or rewritten by the users or members of the site.

Guess what? There is a neatly-organized wiki just for me! It is called: Library 2.0 in 15 Minutes a Day. No joke! This means I still have hope of winning the coveted ipod! See for yourself, (the site, not the ipod.) http://instructionwiki.org/Library_2.0_in_15_minutes_a_day

And then I came to http://www.wetpaint.com/. I am going back there as soon as I can! I wanted to make a wiki on-the-spot! The home page said in big letters: PLEASE TOUCH. That's just what I wanted to do. But a wiki is a collaborative effort, I told myself. It begged the question: A wiki with whom; A wiki for whom?

Libraries can use wikis in many ways. We could have a community wiki where people post the latest and the greatest information that they already seek, such as: "Do you know of a good place to eat seafood?" Or "Where is the county fair?" Or, you could have a book-review wiki with some interested patrons, or a readers' advisory wiki. You could even have a wiki for staff development or maryland askusnow. Endless wikis!