Online applications and tools and blogging along

Lots of interesting online free applications here!


Google Docs allows collaborative access with online documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Zoho has more applications, including Zoho Wiki.


Zamzar looks interesting too - you can for example convert a document to a PDF file - this might be handy when you want to send someone a document as an email attachement but you want it to be view only for the person receiving it.


Slideshare looked interesting too - lots of topical presentations on the US political scene - I did a search for "libraries" and found an interesting presentation by Kathryn Greeenhill from Murdoch University Library on "What is Library 2.0?".


The slideshow "Fab Freebies for productivity" gave a great overview on this topic:

• Zamzar - converts files from one format to another


• Picnik - online photo editing on your brower


• Doodle - polling and scheduling (e.g. meetings)


• Writeboard - sharable web-based text documents


• Jott - described as voicemail 2.0


• Omnidrive - access, edit and share your files from anywhere in your web browser


• Tada list - creating share and store "to do" lists


• Senduit/YouSenuit - send & share large files


• Slideshare - You Tube for Powerpoint

I created a document on Google Docs and shared it with nswpln@gmail.com.


There are lots of possible work applications with these applications. I work in a library with 10 branches, so working with an online document that everyone could access and update from different locations could be useful when planning projects, activities, drafting articles to be printed in newspapers that need to be checked/edited by someone else, etc.