Tuesday 30 March 2010

Google docs/Office 2.0

Google docs was fairly straight forward; I experimented with the formatting and shared a document with colleague Eleanor. ThinkFree took ages to load, and had trouble keeping up with my (very slow) typing. Competent typists must find it very frustrating. It did have more formatting options though.

Friday 19 March 2010

Wikis/Wikipedia

It's against my nature (being a librarian!) to put anything out of order, but thought I'd skip a few "things" to do Wikis, which I know a bit about, and fiddle with the earlier things later.
I use Wikipedia quite a lot to look things up; I don't think I would risk editing anything, but found the history and discussion tabs interesting - I'd never taken much notice of them before. We have a library wiki, so I thought I'd check the missing books list and found one book on the shelf, so edited the list, and also made a few minor changes elsewhere. I've also turned my blog blue (was a bit tired of the pink.)

Friday 12 March 2010

So many "Things", so little time..but on with Delicious

I  set up a Delicious account and downloaded the "bookmarklet", and then found a few random things to bookmark. I also added the VHL Delicious page to my network. I think this could be a useful place to save odd bits and pieces, and would save me scribbling details of websites on bits of paper, which inevitably get lost. I will try and add more things and see how I get on.