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# 18  Online Productivity Tools

Here goes I am going to write my blog about this topic here and then publish it to my blog.  Well I managed to close the whole thing and then find my doc again.  There is a lot of capacity here to do more things than I will ever need.  You can also transfer your stuff between websites, your phone and who knows what else.  This pretty easy to use, if you have a question go to the FAQ page and print out the answer.  That is how I am going to put this on my blog.

 

This site does seem to replace the microsoft word processing program, don't know what more sophisticated o

# 17 Sandbox Wiki

This was not as intuitive as some of the previous tasks. I had to ask for help and embarrassed one person who had already forgotten how to add a comment to a wiki. A wiki is certainly easier to use to collect opinions about a topic that an email question. We could use this for feedback and discussion on major policy changes. There would be no need to wait for one of the monthly meetings.

#16 Wikis

Just had an interesting conversation with a mother about Wikipedia. She was amazed that anybody could edit/add to an article. Her middle school showed her easy it was to change something. After that she understood why her daughter's school would not accept Wikipedia as a source.

I am still surprised that people will believe that stuff on the web must be correct.
I just read the ten facts about Wikipedia on their website. Now I even more skeptical about it.

The Princeton Public used a wiki to allow customers to create their own summer reading recommendations. I could see us doing that for the middle school SRC. It would take somebody from the system overseeing what was being said.

I am curious about how you go about setting up a wiki, didn't find that info in any of the articles. Time for a google search.

#15 Perspectives on Web 2.0

The future is hard to predict; you can discuss all the wonderful things that libraries can do with all the technology. Customers can add their own tags to our catalogs, interact with us by IMing, everyone uses open source software, no more dependence on those vendors. What is out there and will be the hot thing next year.

I skimmed the long article by Crawford, it is interesting to see all the various perspectives on L 2.0. Without the blogs there is no way that all this is feedback would ever happen.

#14 Technorati

I explored this site the day after Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize. Lots of blogs, all kinds of opinions from around the world, a great spot to see how people are thinking about something. While there are many links to mainstream world news on the web this links you to individuals. In my explorations I found a lot of techy stuff I am sure that a lot of people who like to play with electronic things have a great time sharing knowledge and ideas. When I checked out top searches, however, I got a lot of suggestions for porn sites.

I will try to remember the check this site the next time I want to see how people are reacting to a world event.

#13 Del.icio.us

I didn't find this site as interesting as some of the others. I can see how if you were involved in a collaborative research project this site would be useful to share information in a kind of have you seen this yet manner. I am not really anxious to have other people looking at my choices of websites. Too many years of working in public service have made me conscious of the number of kooks that are out there.

It would be valuable if you used a number of computers and wanted to have access to your bookmarked websites on each machine. If you always used a public machine this site would let you keep your bookmarked sites available. So far this has not become an issue for me.

#12 Rollyo

Very useful tool. As I was creating my new Rollyo, I could think of several more that would be real useful. Any subject that you tend to check regularly it would be very time saving to have it all together.

Select...Latest NewsSearch The Web

Now that branches are not getting the used car price guides a Rollyo of the major sites would be useful at the I Desk. Searchroles could be created for branch specific topics depending on branch needs.

Now I am going to see if I can add my searchroll to this blog in the next ten minutes before I am due back on the desk.

Here goes