http://zoho.com/
Zoho has a whole suite of cool online apps for coloborative sharing, viewing and more! Most are free. Project and Polls look especially interesting.
Use Zoho Viewer to upload documents and share the URL.
Use Zoho Projects for your project management software.
Use Zoho Meeting for online meetings and desktop sharing.
They also have Zoho Writer, Sheet and Show - which are online, coloborabitve office products similar to google docs (Word, Spreadsheet and Presentation).
And several more!
Friday, August 24, 2007
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Bringin' it back old school.....
CafeScribe has a solution to the impersonal world of ebooks - scratch n' sniff smelly stickers that smell like old musty books.
According to CafeScribe, "In a survey of 600 college students 43% identified smell –- either new book smell or old -- as the thing they most love about books as physical objects. A majority (62%) also preferred purchasing used textbooks over new or electronic textbooks, despite the fact that e-textbooks are generally a third less expensive than used textbooks."
If only someone would make a scratch n' sniff sticker of old sweaty gym socks so I could pretend I'm exercising while I'm vacumming my house.
According to CafeScribe, "In a survey of 600 college students 43% identified smell –- either new book smell or old -- as the thing they most love about books as physical objects. A majority (62%) also preferred purchasing used textbooks over new or electronic textbooks, despite the fact that e-textbooks are generally a third less expensive than used textbooks."
If only someone would make a scratch n' sniff sticker of old sweaty gym socks so I could pretend I'm exercising while I'm vacumming my house.
Ryerson University Library - 2.0 Tools
Check out some tools that Ryerson University Library has created for their patrons: http://www.ryerson.ca/library/library20/
They've got several tools they've created to connect library resources to outside services including Amazon, Firefox and Facebook. I wonder if we should be putting some energy into creating tools like these. Why not immerse ourselves into the services and sites students use on a regular basis? A quick check on their Facebook app shows that over 250 users have already installed the Ryerson App on their Facebook profile.
They've got several tools they've created to connect library resources to outside services including Amazon, Firefox and Facebook. I wonder if we should be putting some energy into creating tools like these. Why not immerse ourselves into the services and sites students use on a regular basis? A quick check on their Facebook app shows that over 250 users have already installed the Ryerson App on their Facebook profile.
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Mapanno
http://www.mapanno.com/
Mapanno.com is a free site where you can mashup your flickr or 23 photos with visual tags (kinda like virtual post-it notes) and then upload them to your website.
Check out my test mashup photo
here
Mapanno.com is a free site where you can mashup your flickr or 23 photos with visual tags (kinda like virtual post-it notes) and then upload them to your website.
Check out my test mashup photo
here
BackTags
http://www.backtags.com/
There's a lot of social bookmarking sites out there....and there's even more tags. BackTags brings them all together for some interesting statistics including popularity rankings and top sites associated with tags...
Features of backtags.com according to their website:
There's a lot of social bookmarking sites out there....and there's even more tags. BackTags brings them all together for some interesting statistics including popularity rankings and top sites associated with tags...
Features of backtags.com according to their website:
- assess, analyze and rank the popularity of any website on leading social bookmarking sites
- identify tags used to describe websites
- rank websites according to tag/user popularity
- compare and rank competitors
- analyze user perception of websites
BlogLines.com
http://www.bloglines.com
Bloglines.com is a site where you can view and manage your RSS blog feeds in one central online location. You can search for different blogs, get recomendations based on your blogs, save individual posts to a clippings file and even create your own blog there and save other people's blog posts to it easily. If you're a blogger, you can get a bloglines subscribe button and if you're a browser, you can easily get a bookmarklet to easily subscribe to any blog you come across.
Bloglines.com is a site where you can view and manage your RSS blog feeds in one central online location. You can search for different blogs, get recomendations based on your blogs, save individual posts to a clippings file and even create your own blog there and save other people's blog posts to it easily. If you're a blogger, you can get a bloglines subscribe button and if you're a browser, you can easily get a bookmarklet to easily subscribe to any blog you come across.
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Blogs, Wiki's & Podcasting
Today, I'm attending an RRLC training class on blogs, wiki's and podcasting. So far, I've learned several tips and tricks that I can't wait to share with our staff!
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