On line productivity tools -thing 18- sunflowers

I like this picture -- the sunlight breaking through the clouds over a field of sunflowers.

I have finished thing # 18--ZOHO writer--online productivity tools-- and have successfully posted a message to my blog from zoho.

I don't have many thoughts about this-- I can see that it is advantageous to have these word smith tools with the ability to send the product to various places without coping and pasting from an application. I have just discovered that you can update a previous post--it remembers!

Sandbox Wiki at Maryland Libraries

OK--I have played with the sandbox and gained a little experience playing with a wiki. I added a favorite thing to do to the file--favorite things. I have no thoughts about this except that it is a cool place for librarians to share their experience and professionalism with others. Oh yes--and it is a cool place to play!

Wiki

The most interesting thing about a Wiki is the ability (for anyone)to edit and add information. I find this quite frightening.-----Wikipedia is a Wiki and I understand that there are a million entries but can it be accurate with people contributing who have dubious credentials? Some teachers do not allow the Wikipedia to be used by their students in writing research papers.
Having said this---Wikis would be useful as centralized places for people to share ideas on a topic--develop ideas for a conference--a place for empolyees of a particular organization to share ideas--a place to develop a shared document.
Libraries in particular can use them to develop a subject guide--a place for club enthusiasts--places for library supported groups like a teen group.
One Wiki I visited had links to various comunity organizations and businesses.

Reading a few perspectives

These articles are concerned with the evolving Internet and the way people are using it to contact each other and share information. It is becoming the instrument of choice to gather information. Gone is the day when you yanked out the encylopedia or almanac to find out something.

As we have discovered in our blogging experiment with 23 things, people are learning and learning quickly how to organize and search for information in new and novel ways. Libraries and Librarians must learn with them and help them to find the information they need. Libraries must become a part of that evolving internet. There is a place here for an organization which can show the way to useful information--to shift through the available information and find that which is true and useful.

Technorati

I am investigating Technorati and have tried the different search approches and the results are very different. The search by Blog and Tag produce much fewer results and are probably more worth looking at. Searching by post produces many more and I will have to shift through them to find anything useful. Searching by tag or blog would reveal the items that are more worth looking at.

Del.icio.us

I have looked at this website and have found it to be much more useful than simple bookmarking. You can find out who has bookmarked it before you and peek in their storage vault for other gems.

Rollyo

OK---I have investigated Rollyo and have created a rollyo for recipes called (ahem) sunflower--however I notice that they manage to put ads in there with the results of a search!

Following is a searchbox from my site.

Select Search Engine...sunflowerTop NewsCelebrity GossipSearch The Web

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