Item # 19 - discovering web 2.0 tools

Looking through the Web 2.0 awards for 2007 I was glad to see some of my favourites such as Librarything under "Books" and Blogline under the "Blog guides". Ma.gnolia.com is very similar to De.licio.us. I searched for the "Library 2.0' bookmarks and found a lot of good links to look at. For example an interesting article by David Lee King under the title "Am I a 2.0 librarian and the Library 2.0 Spectrum" (http://www.davidleeking.com/2007/08/01/am-i-a-20-librarian-and-the-library-20-spectrum).



What was amazing that when I checked the http://www.eventful.com/ - the world largest collection of events - I really found the information of an event in a city where I was born in a country that does not have a high percentage of Internet use at all. I bypassed the 'Cocktail builder' but became curious about the 'One sentence' http://www.onesentence.org/ that promises the whole story in one sentence. I was going to look for health tools and recognised some 'old friends' such as PBWiki and Zoho. Overall it was a joyful journey.

Item # 18 -on-line word processor

I'd experimented a little with Zoho Writer and was very impressed by the options available in this program. The idea that you can create, share and edit many different types of documents without downloading the program onto your desktop is new for me. Even if I don't use Microsoft Word or Excel everyday in my work, I definitely will learn more from Zoho and other on-line word processors for my future use. I checked different parts of Zoho, such as Zoho meetings, Zohoshow, ZohoWiki, Zohoplanner. It is a lot of things to take in. I liked the idea of templates for resumes, cover letters, accident reports, invitaions and many other things. As far as I understood it is even possible to create documents in different languages. I tried to create a document in Zohoshow and made a number of slides that look like Power Point slides.
http://show.zoho.com/public/yarnspinner/Learning%202.0