Thing 18 - Online Productivity Tools

As quickly as possible after my horrible experience with the *&^%$#@! Sandbox Wiki, I moved on to the next thing - like climbing back on the horse after the stupid beast stops dead and pitches you over the rails and into the pond.

I'm really impressed with these online tools - they make communicating information electronically even easier, more efficient, and filled with possibilities. I added a Zoho Writer text to my blog - see previous post - and then went back and edited it! It's good to be able to integrate different "things" like this. I suppose that one reason this exercise was so much more satisfying than the last - apart from the fact that I was actually able to do it - was that it built on wordprocessing and spreadsheet skills I already have.

(I would also like to point out that St. Joyce was very kind helpful, along with St. Ellen, with Thing 17, and I apologize for my vulgar language to the former about the people who put the instructions for the *&^%$#@! Sandbox Wiki on the various sites!)

Testing, testing...

Well, here's a test document to be sent to my blog from Zoho. I wonder what "zoho" means? The word processing seems to be pretty easy to do; I'm used to using MS Word, and after that hellish "Sandbox Wiki" excercise, anything is bound be easier and more fun.

Nice indentations, something I haven't figured out how to do on Blogspot (and am not interested enough to pursue there), and I've added font and background color - let's see if that will copy onto my blog.

(Oh, no! I explored the toolbar and did what I once swore I'd never do - I added a smileyface!! And now I've done another one - put this dereliction down to rebound from my utterly frustrating experience with Thing 17.)

I can see that this kind of office application tool is a further step in the continuum of files on one computer, files on a disk, files on a better kind of disk, files on an area network, files on a thumbdrive. It's very handy to be able to put stuff on a storage device that could be used on any computer, but even more convenient to be able to get to it from any computer that connects to the Internet. Very useful for business, and adaptable to purely social stuff as well.