Little Miss Chatterblog

...or, in my case, a glass of Diet L.A. Max Ice. But, why quibble over the small things?

I checked out the winners of the Web 2.0 awards, and have bookmarked a number of them to play with at a later date, but as I am more familiar with the Web-based apps at this point, anyway, I'm going to blog about them! (Actually, I've bookmarked the whole winners page, because if I ever need to waste some time, I'm pretty sure I'll be able to find something there with which to do so! ;-) On my OWN time, au naturellement! ;-))

I discovered that I actually signed up for a Zoho account back in May, for who knows WHAT reason, but that's one less thing I had to sign up for. Not that that worries me - I'll sign up for virtually anything, if someone says it's good. Within reason, of course. ;-)

I'm in a number of communities online, and people often want to share documents, spreadsheets, etc, on quite a number of them - and I have suggested the use of such sites as the abovementioned Zoho, and - being a Google Mail user myself, have made use of the Google Docs/Spreadsheets facility on a number of occasions. It's great and saves people in communities time in having to email files out over and over, when instead they can simply be held in a common repository that the members are able to access. Not everyone has jumped on the bandwagon with me, but I'll keep hammering the point home. ;-)

I've actually encouraged library users to make use of these types of applications on a number of occasions - opening Word docs when they can't on the Internet computers, for example. If they are able to open them in Google Docs - it's all good. Or if they have to email something via same and haven't the access - they can use G.Docs (my new name for them. Word.) or Zoho to create them and off they go.

Zoho, in particular, is really extensive - and it has an incredibly easy-to-understand interface from which you can do so much just with a mouse-click. There really is precious little difference between that and Microsoft Word, in terms of what you can do. Ah, but as I've discovered, the almighty Microsoft is not to be beaten...they're in pre-registration mode for Microsoft Office Live Workspaces...but I'm not entirely sure if that will really amount to the same thing, as it looks as though - judging by their blurb - it will be utilising already-established Office docs, rather than being able to create new ones. I guess time will tell. Since I'm into all that's new and cool, perhaps I should pre-register and find out! ;-)

So, that's my Learning 2.0 foray into Zoho and G.Docs. Peace out, homies. ;-)



E.Bru. :-D

Labels: #18 Web-based apps, #19 Web 2.0 tools, Emma goes to da hood, Learning 2.0