The prelude of posts to come . . . .
I had been trying to figure out how to make my blog become the main place I “store” all of the information I acquire as I am “Finding My Way” in the information world, library world, and world in general. One major source of information I wanted to make available to myself (and others, if interested) was my classwork. I’ve done a lot of work for these MLIS classes that are making me a librarian, and much of it could be useful to me in the future. But computers come and go, so I didn’t want to save everything on my hard drive. Zip drives and other storage units are great, but they are prone to loss and destruction. Plus, I didn’t know of an easy way to make these formats available on my blog without copy/pasting the content into a post.
Lo and behold, along comes Zoho Viewer. As its tagline says, “Get rid of attachments. Just upload your document, grab the URL, and share it with your friends or post it in blogs / forums. No sign up required.” So, in a way it is like Google Documents, because you can allow others to edit your documents — yet another Web 2.0 tool encouraging and allowing easy collaboration. OR you can just let others view your document, which is what I’m doing on my blog.
Since I already use it, I tried Google docs, too, after I realized Zoho is similar. But I like Zoho better for this purpose because it has a “Bulk” upload option which is easier — less clicking. Plus I like the final view better in Zoho. Also, Zoho might be a good option for collaborating with people online who do not (for whatever reason) want to set up a Google Account.
