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Cool Toyz: Free Online Productivity Tools

Cool Toyz: Free Online Productivity Tools. Lorena O’English Washington State University Libraries oenglish@wsu.edu Yahoo/MSN/AIM IM: wsulorena. Productivity: What do we want to do?. Organize and manage your own stuff Work collaboratively Use graphics ???. Decision Rules for Change.

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Cool Toyz: Free Online Productivity Tools

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  1. Cool Toyz: Free Online Productivity Tools Lorena O’English Washington State University Libraries oenglish@wsu.edu Yahoo/MSN/AIM IM: wsulorena

  2. Productivity: What do we want to do? • Organize and manage your own stuff • Work collaboratively • Use graphics • ???

  3. Decision Rules for Change • Is there a need? • Does the tool solve that need? • Does it work for you/your workflow? • Future thinking…

  4. Organizing and Managing Stuff • Evernote http://www.evernote.com/en/

  5. EverNote • New metaphor: from documents on files to notes on an endless tape. • Can save text, MS Office items, images, clips from webpages and email, and more; saves link to online source. • Notes are categorized using tags • Find by date, category(s) or search • Customizable, via template forms that can be shared with others • Can email notes to others • Automatic backup (5 most recent)

  6. Right-click on the email or highlighted text to add to EN

  7. EverNote Tools Clipping integrated into IE and Firefox browsers and email clients via bookmarklets and/or browser add-ons. EverNote ”Universal” Clipper Upcoming web-based add-on: storing, tagging, searching, and sharing.

  8. Working Collaboratively: Sharing • Save and share Web sites via social bookmarking services: • Bookmarks accessible anywhere • Social - searchable, traceable, sharable, sendable • Bookmarklets allow easy saving • Archivable Del.icio.us www.furl.net Librarything: http://www.librarything.com/

  9. Working Collaboratively: Sharing • Documents, Spreadsheets, etc. • Google Docs & Spreadsheets • http://docs.google.com • Zoho • http://zoho.com

  10. Use Graphics • Fotoflexor -  http://fotoflexer.com/start.php • Phixr – http://www.phixr.com • 3hrs to upload to Flickr, PhotoBucket, etc. or download • Picnik - http://www.picnik.com/ • For immediate uploading/downloading • Pixenate - http://pixenate.com/ • SnipShot - http://snipshot.com/ • Thumbalizr - http://www.thumbalizr.com • Creates thumbnails from screen or page; resizable …and IrfanView!!!

  11. A little tweaking…

  12. Cautions: http://spokesmanreview.com/features/story.asp?ID=211006

  13. Cautions: Who’s Holding your IP? http://mydigimedia.com/2007/08/09/who_owns_what_media_v20.html

  14. Implementation:Push, not Pull • Modeling and training (Patrons too!) • Make it easy • Automatic application opening • Create a *useful* home page with links to what you use • Use RSS/syndication • Consistency! • …watch out for money/time pits

  15. Questions??? Gilding the Molly… http://wiki.wsu.edu/wsuwiki/Productivity_Tools

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