It’s amazing the way we get spoilt for choice these days. I am sure I am not the only person who feels she experiences what kids experience when they enter Toys ‘R’ US or a sweet shop. The question I should ask myself at this stage now is which one of all these tools would I use or which one has the elements that would most serve my needs.
Google docs :I’ve been opportuned to use this when creating a website for pet project, I was able to store some spreadsheets and files for the webpages in there and was aware I could set up another administrator to use the same from anywhere else even though I didn’t do this because I didn’t need to set any up.
Dropbox is like the tool we use at my POW (Livelink) where anybody can edit the items there and build on what already exists,
Wiki: We also have an internal wiki which is used for different purposes. It has subs like handing over note from one librarian at the helpdesk to others, current problems, helpdesk links which is an A-Z listings of answers to issues that may crop up at the helpdesk.
These tools would have been really useful for me at the start of my career when I used to write and publish articles with my colleagues. It was really difficult collating people’s ideas together and I remember especially a paper I co-wrote with about 5 others. It almost practically boiled down to the fact that some members could be classified as not being a part of the paper but for the few suggestions they made when I insisted on a pre-meeting to collate the paper together. If we were aware of a tool like Google docs, this would have made things work better and perhaps encouraged us to churn out more papers.
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