Thursday, April 17, 2008

Online applications and tools

It is really amazing there are so many free online productivity, although it does not do as much as the software, but anything basic will be enough for some people,
such as create basic documents from scratch, share and collaborate with others.
I can see it is useful for collaboration, eg. when I am planning an event, I draft up a document and post it, then my colleague makes edit or add text to the document and I can take the complete document for proposal.
Zamzar free online file conversion is a handy tool, without the need of software, for instant at work our admin person she converts the library roster document to PDF file with the Adobe software install on her PC, whenever we need something to be converted, it must go through her, as she is the one has the Adobe software, Zamzar tool would be helpful for us as not everyone has the software on the pc, only one thing that you need to wait for your file to download via email.
Looked at the Slideshare, amazing this is all free. This can be use for presentations like staff internal training eg. how to join up a membership, present our library's service to the classes at school, ie library tour with all the collection, new items available in the library, for library's report, yearly statistics of circulation, comparison of different year's figures etc.
Zoho is another amazing tools with more features and comprehensive set of applications, although some have a subscription fee. I am sure it will get more popular in a later days.

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