Tuesday, June 9, 2009

A few less hairs... but here's Thingy 23

For some reason the two last thingy's were the hardest hurdle for me. Overall I enjoyed doing the 23 things programme, but you definitely need to be kept motivated on the journey. If I was left to my own devices I don't think I would have finished all the 23 things, but going to the lunchtime talks and even the journals club yesterday motivated me to finish, sometimes you just need a bit guilt! I definitely see a place for blogs, wikis, rss feeds in the library. Also tagging, though not technorati which I hated! I can see a place for it, even in my own line of work looking at the tags that students use would help me with coming up with terminology for links on the library website. Some of the 23 things are just for personal use I think and definitely for a certain type of personality, I of the hermit nature they probably don't suit. I would definitely be more that willing to participate in another online programme. Thanks Lindsay Karen and Helena

Monday, June 8, 2009

Thingy 22!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is me trying to make a zoho document public 23 Things, Annabelmc's experience found it a bit difficult to get the link into the blog, ending up having to edit the html slightly from what I got in zoho. That is probably my only criticism of zoho writer. I have used google docs before so decided to give zoho writer a shot. Both products are very good for document sharing and editing and from looking at zoho writer briefly it seems to offer alot of extra features, google docs probably does as well now. Zoho writer is in beta and you are allowed store as many documents as you want but this may change when it is out of testing so this is something to consider.

We use sharepoint in the library at the moment to share documents and the only advantage of it over the other two is that it is secure and ITD look after the backup. However this is in my option the only advantage of sharepoint, as I find it awkward to use and not at all user friendly. The other two free products are much nicer to use and I would be a far happier annabel if I could use them instead of sharepoint sometimes, but thems the drawbacks in life I suppose!

Just realised I forgot about Google Maps, so had to go back in and edit the post, what's happening to me! As a product Google Maps are great, though to be honest I hardly ever use them, me and maps don't go hand in hand. However I did one day spend ages trying to find my own house in annacotty, self obsessed or what! There are probably loads of other features on Google maps and if you are a map person you would probably love them.