Web 2.0 - and the winners are...

So I thought I'd have a look at an honorable mention that intigued me. It's called www.onesentence.org. Similar in scope to Twitter (I think) and basically people can submit their sentence, summarising their life (or part of it). My sentence was "A house is just a building, but a home is a house with memories". You have to wait to see if it has been approved by the website owner, and he allows a part of his site for "Unapproved entires" where anyone can then approve/disapprove sentences - some of the sentences there are crap... You then get an email when your sentence is approved (I'm just waiting for my approval now - I hope).

Now I've just looked at Twitter and added it to my blog and facebook site.

Now I'm going to look at the multi award winning site called "my bed" - goodnight, another exciting Saturday night at home.

Google docs

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pW6LlJoqweXxjww55RBljBw&hl=en_GB#

Let's see how this works.....
Scary..........it works!!!

Zoho......hmmmm

Thought I'd got the hang of this. Managed to create a user name, create a document, and theoretically add it to my blog. Now it's somewhere in cyberspace, and I can't find it on my blog anywhere. Let's see if it just somehow magically turns up...or maybe I'll ask someone....

The potential for this kind of service is staggering, and if I can figure out how to really use it, I think it will be awesome.

POST SCRIPT - FOUND IT IN MY DRAFTS (NOT SURE HOW I FOUND MY DRAFTS BUT THAT'S A WHOLE NEW BALL GAME) ANYWAY - SEE PREVIOUS POST, 'COS THAT'S WHAT THIS REFERS TO. I DARE YOU TO CLICK ON THE LINK. Click the second part of the link and it should work.....

The previous post was actually created in Zoho Writer and added to my blog, all by myself - yippee! and it even looks seamless... It's just remembering the User IDs and passwords for all these sites that I can't remember.

I also just tried gOffice... see the link. I tried saving as PDF. It created a PDF but I can't get it attached to my blog. (The text from it is below, but the font has changed to Arial and it is obviously just text and not a PDF. I think I was expecting miracles. At least it does let you creat a PDF without having to have Adobe Writer.

"Greetings earthlings. This gOffice seems OK but it doesn't let you change font and I don't like Times New Roman. It also doesn't auto-correct typos.
Interesting concept. I want to see how it looks as a PDF document."

Jumping into the Zoho world

Well, here we all are then....

I am feeling that this service, explained quite nicely (I think) in Common Craft's video (http://www.commoncraft.com/) about camping is a great idea.

I had forgotten which site I saw this explained on, but then I remembered it was amongst my del.icio.us tags on my browser (gee, I've learned heaps!)... I'm starting to sound like I've got a bit of a handle on all this technology I've been learning about.

Hang on - now's the time to get (vaguely) smart....just a mo.....

<a href="http://www.fodey.com/generators/animated/talking_tomato.asp%22%3E%3Cimg src="http://r5.fodey.com/13f3e74a27f10402092ef1b02705279c7.1.gif" border=0 width="260" height="160" alt="gif animation"></a>

CLICK ON THE LINK....I DARE YOU TO.....SEE WHAT YOU FIND....IT SHOULD BE FUN!!!

Anyway, I think I'll quit while I might be ahead

Playing in the sandpit

I guess I figured I'd learned enough tonight, but then I had to play in the SandBox created by PLCMC.
A bit frustrating. I could add my favorite musical tastes (quite bland really, but I did it on the first go).

Then I tried to add my blogspot and had heaps of troubles.

First it would link, then it wouldn't, then when I copied and pasted Darryl's link from the top, it linked to Darryl's page (not surprising), then I had fun with brackets, then without them, and every time I went to save the page, it would say I wasn't connected to the web (which I was), and I'd hit save again and it then saved.

Well, I did it. I posted to a wiki. I feel a little like my son must feel when he discovers he CAN reach further than he thought into the plastics cupboard in the kitchen. I just hope I don't get stuck in the cupboard under the shelf like he does... I really should have taken a picture - it was really funny, and then he did it again (hahaha).

Wiki, wiki - not so tricky

What to say about Wikis.... I found this session REALLY interesting, and I didn't think I would. I had a discussion recently with a university librarian friend who said that their library was putting EVERYTHING online so that it wouldn't disadvantage distance education (DE) students. Her feeling was that putting everything online was in fact disadvantaging the on campus students who weren't using all the library facilities and clarifying/chatting/communication with the library staff in real time.
Anyway, I was thinking along those same lines that perhaps everything being online wouldn't be a good idea in some circumstances.
I then spent this evening discovering more about wikis. I still have some trepidation about adding content to wikis but the YouTube video (about camping) eas an excellent example, and I also found a lot of value fom the libsuccess (http://libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Main_Page) page - which I have added to my del.icio.us page....
I can see how we could use this at CCLC - the Staff Event on Sept 12, Book chats (sharing book reviews so you don't have to reinvent the wheel), processes for gaming consoles etc,etc. Instead of a staff intranet, I feel this would be a (perhaps) better way to go.
I'd appreciate hearing from others on this one.....