Online Office Tools
I’ve used zoho.com and googledocs to save documents online. Last summer when I was working with 2 other people to coordinate a workshop at a library conference, we used googledocs to create our handouts. We also shared a powerpoint presentation using googledocs.
I believe we should encourage any of our patrons who do not have a flash drive or floppy disk to use either googledocs or zoho to type their resumes and papers and letters. This way they don’t lose what they have typed after they leave the library. It is a free way to have access to word processing and even presentations similar to powerpoint. Both online programs will accept Word documents or PowerPoint presentations so you can save and edit them. They are not quite as powerful as the full Microsoft versions, but they are close enough for most of our patrons’ needs.
We should all feel comfortable with these programs online so we can assist patrons.
I did post my zoho document that I created while working on this exploration.
