Thursday, April 26, 2007

22 Webware

I explored Webware and found, under Education and Reference, a list of sites that allow easy document sharing. This would be helpful to students or workgroups that are sharing and co-editing documents that may be using different versions of wordprocessing or spreadsheet programs.
Scribd http://www.scribd.com/ seemed the most straightforward and easy to use.

In their own words:
Put your docs online.
Scribd docs have been viewed 6,655,371 times!
PDF player to publish and view documents right in your web browser. Try it out!-->Scribd's mission is to create the world's largest open library of documents. Explore the thousands of docs already uploaded or contribute your own!

Google labs

I was impressed by the voice activation options Google is experimenting with, that type of experimentation could lead to less password typo failures.

On a related "27 things" note, I had my first opportunity to share Bloglines with a patron, it went really well.

ukulele stuff search engine

google made it very easy to create acustomized search engine.

Thursday, April 12, 2007

Generator site practice

I created these handy acronyms using the Acronym Liar generator:
WELL
Whole Earth Librarian

TLA
Three Librarian Acronym


http://thesurrealist.co.uk/acro.cgi?word=librarians

I wanted to try out the Tabloid Headline generator but alas it would not open...

Thursday, April 5, 2007

Wiki practice take one

I can see how using a Wiki for a conference like ALA or WLA is very easy to set up and useful for planning and making quick changes to.