November 5, 2007...6:22 am

Week 10, Lesson 20, Online applications & tools

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I can see how having these applications on the web can make it a lot easier for people to use and share.  Plus, it’s free.   From the testimonials given for Google docs, it seems there is more use for the sharing of spreadsheets.  However, I just set up a short word doc.  Google Docs was fairly intuitive, but Zoho had much better explanation and seemed easier to use.  I did have some questions about folders in Zoho.  I get that Tags are folders, and I clicked on tag and set up my “folder”, but I couldn’t seem to get it over to the left and I’m not sure my doc is in it. 

Again, the main beauty of these aps is that you can share them.  A whole lot less emailing here.  Perhaps this would be helpful for the Library’s RTC process since there are so many copies going back and forth after revisions are made.

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  • Any process that requires multiple people to contribute to a document is probably a candidate for online collaboration. Also usually there is a revision history available, so if someone should accidentally destroy pieces of the doc, you should be able to revert back to a previous state. That’s probably a helpful feature!
    -Garrett


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