Learning (or at least trying to figure out) how to use Web-based Apps

Well, I titled my last two entries as "Sandbox" because I was indeed playing and up to my eyeballs in sand. I did finally get Zoho writer to share to other emails. The things that I got frustrated about, was that it was not easy to figure out how to do that. Also, I uploaded a document that I had on my desktop in Zoho docs but couldn't figure out how to share that. The one thing that Zoho writer had over Google docs was that I could publish straight to my blog.

The bottom line is that I didn't know any of this stuff existed before tonight. So...needless to say, I am tickled pink to know that I could use Web-based apps to save, share, and publish. And of course, this will help in letting me get to all my documents without carrying around my flash drive.

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Web-based Apps

I tried Google docs and zoho writer and I found Google Doc so much easier to use.  I still can't figure out how to share my document using Zoho.  It may be cuz it's way to late for me to be up trying to figure this stuff out.  I did (probably accidentally) figure out how to publish one sentence to my blog using Zoho writer, so I guess I am now writing to my blog expressing my experience using web apps.  I will try to figure Zoho out later when I am more awake.  But Google Doc is much, much more user friendly.  I think it will be great for me to put all my documents on the web and take them wherever I go without using my flash drive as I do now.  And it will be great to share them when I need to and have the recipient make any corrections.  This is really a great way to save and share documents.

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This is my simple document.  read and make corrections

Playing around with PBWiki

I jumped head first into the sandbox. It took a while but I finally figured out how to post to the Wiki and create a new page and link to another blog . I am of the school of try and try again. It was easy to create a login at CTLS 23 Things Favorite wiki. I went to the Favorite Blog page and added my blog. It took me a while to enter it as a title of a blog and not the whole URL. Back at the sandbox, I was able to meet the challenge and create a separate page for Favorite Vacation Spot and even included a link to my favorite blog [http://parisdailyphoto.com | ParisDailyPhoto ]
I'm really starting to enjoy myself and that's because I've always loved to learn new things.

I actually feel ready to try to create my own wiki for our family reunion.

Wikis

I can see that there are many library wikis out there. Since I have never participated in using one this is all very new to me, although I have been using Wikipedia for some time now. Now, I don't contribute to it, though and I am not sure how one goes about doing that. At any rate I can see the application for communicating ideas, maybe doing book reviews, sharing ideas and knowledge. I suppose I could read more and then try to contribute.

Technology trends for a 2.0 world

I just finished reading the article from Library Technology reports. I guess I have been fairly insulated in my world and maybe my age has a lot to do with it. The idea that I could appear on Youtube, perhaps through a not so nice encounter with a disgruntled patron never crossed my mind. The idea of librarians going ga-ga with a new Iphone sounds weird. However, I like the idea of a blog whereby the patrons could really bring about discussions about books they want or services they want seemed intriguing. I loved the idea of having a community care about either pictures I post on Flickr or thoughts in my blog. I just started scratching the surface of LibraryThing and I am thinking I could really use this either in my discussion about books with patrons or in my own search for good reads or even to help me when I catalog.

Learning Technorati

I had already claimed my blog at Technorati a few days back and a few "things" back. I tried searching for blogs but I could only do it by Blog Directory. I did search the popular blogs and selected the first one as a favorite. I was able to tag my blog and place a Technorati tag on my blog for others to select my blog as a favorite. Well, I tried it for myself. In searching for "library 2.0", I discovered 6,196 blogs. As usual, I'm not quite sure I'm doing things right. I can find my blog in Technorati but can anyone else?