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Showing posts with label Online application tools. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Online application tools. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

W11 -Online Application Tools Continued

'Thumbstack slides' has less features in comparison to Powerpoint and Zoho which come with many features such as clipart, shapes, sizes, fonts, colours and other customisable options. These programs allow us to create and edit attractive and professional presentations online whenever we want to.

Zoho has different useful online software which includes all the software that a person or business needs in order to do a good job. It allows us to create, edit and share files anywhere, anytime.

Some examples of online software include:
'Zoho meeting' which allows a group of people to meet or learn online. We can use these new tools in the library for training patrons online or to carry out urgent meetings between central and branch staff when needed.
'Zoho planer' is another useful tool which can be used as an online organiser to keep track of what we have to do and what has been done to meet deadlines etc...
'Zoho creator' can be used to create an online contact list. We can embed it to our blog and update it whenever we want to.

Below is the presentation I created by using 'Zoho show' it looks better in comparison to the ones I made using the 'thumbstack slide show'.

Friday, May 2, 2008

W11- Online application tools

Google Docs is really useful and handy website which allows us to create documents, or projects for individuals or groups. Its features allow several members of a group to work on the same document so that they can finish their work quickly and efficiently without meeting each other. We can update information or edit data and republish. It is a real time saver.

In the library, we can work on projects, plans, agendas for meetings and staff can add to the document. It also allows staff who may have missed the meetings to have a say on the topics discussed.

I think we can introduce Google Docs and zoho.com services to our patrons so they can work on their documents and save directly online making things easier and preventing problems such as discs getting stuck in the computer's drive, loss of discs or USB sticks.