Thing # 13 Online Productivity

Because I spent the time and money to take the tests to be certified in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2003, I don't feel a personal need for other productivity tools. I already paid for my own copy of MS Office 2003!! I need to get my money's worth out of all of this! But these tools will be useful for library patrons who need an online tool to create a document. I'm not sure this looks easier to learn than Word, however. What are all these icons??! Anchor?? Man, do I have to learn another whole program??

Ok so it was super easy to post this Zoho Writer paragraph to my blog. All I had to do was tell it my blog address, and -zip- it was here! Cool.

It didn't work as well with Zoho Notebook--I couldn't find anywhere on the screen to publish my note to my blog. I had to cut and paste:

Zoho Notebook would make taking speaker notes quite easy -- if I had a laptop, if I had web access on a laptop. Without a laptop, it still would be easy to access this program on the web if I am taking notes in a lab on an connected computer. Seeing as I am without a laptop, I'm still taking notes w/ my own peculiar frm of shrthnd. :)

I published a paragraph to the web from Google Docs -- view it at http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dg73h6n8_0jj75fs Like I said in this paragraph, Google docs looks great for collaboration projects. I still prefer Word for my own stuff though!