Word processing, saving, editing, sharing, etc. are becoming so much easier. The more I see of productivity tools like Zoho, the more I'm liking them! This looks a lot like Think Free which I'll be discussing for the final project.
I am going to try to write here, then transfer it to the blog - we'll see in a bit how successful I am!! In general, I just love the "shar-ability" of these types of utilities. I don't know how many times I've tried to share documents through emails and it either cannot be opened by the recipient, or the format of the document gets shifted and is difficult to read, among other issues.
The capability to view documents offline is a great asset too. It's not possible to be online 100% of the time and sometimes it's nice to be able to work on things on the spur of the moment without requiring net access.
I'm beginning to really love the whole tagging thing! I noticed in the general overview that folders can be tagged. It's nice to be able to remember what a folder contains without having to open the entire file.
I also watched the Google sites tutorial. I learned something I've been wondering about for a long time! It showed how to make a word or group of words show up as a link, and I've never known how to do this (don't laugh)! I've tried it a couple times with this document - again, I'll have to see if it worked!
I like how the Shelly text breaks down the various productivity tools for school and student management, from grade book applications to special needs students. It goes more into software rather than web-based tools, but at least it gives great ideas on where and how to use them.
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true -- as librarians we need to match tech with the specific needs of the user
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