#16 Online productivity

I was expecting this one to be a bit complicated but was pleasantly surprised.

I have been using Google Docs and like the way I can access a document on any internet computer and work on it. It enables a group to collaborate on the same document at different locations. Some people could even go on holiday and still contribute from a town past the Bombays!

I can see this technology being really useful for patrons who don't have a computer at home or any other way of saving their work. They can create a document such as a resume, and use library internet to work on it, print it, and save it to access later.

I joined Zoho and typed up a couple of NZ poems - Sea Call by Hone Tuwhare and part of The Cave by Fleur Adcock. I really like how the programme doesn't try to correct things for you - it is one of the most frustrating things in MS Word. In the case of a poem, I didn't want to capitilise the start of every line, and Zoho lets me do this.

The spell check has the choice of NZ English which is nice to see. Overall the site was well set out and you can see what all the buttons are for by hovering the mouse over them. I saved two documents and then realised I hadn't given one a title. That was much easier to change than in Word, just involved typing over the document name at the top of the page.

I exported one document to my blog without any hassle. I thought I'd better not put a whole poem in case of copyright restrictions, so this is just the end of one of my favourites.

from

The Cave

But there is nothing I need to write:

Not even a letter

(I know no one) or a diary

(My days are all the same.)

I am here. It has to be enough

Just to be so much here.