Well, the previous post was a successful test of Zoho.
I was able to post directly to this blog from within Zoho--it was simple and easy just like the Blog This feature in Flickr...which is awesome.
In our library system, there are a limited number of PCs with word processing capability; I've been told that this in part due to the cost of MS Office.
There are also a limited number of PCs with their floppy drives/USB ports enabled. This is changing slowly. Just this week, Systems decided to test OpenOffice on a few PCs at our main branch. While that is one solution, online applications like Zoho offer another alternative.
I also like the idea that documents are stored out there some place. That makes it really nice for folks who forget their flash drives. Or, even better, for those patrons who bring in a scratched disk with the metal carriage missing. Sometimes those things look like they've been dragged behind cars and it's our job to smile and be nice when they ask--I don't know why the computer won't read my disk.
Another benefit--if your local machine starts coughing up blood, you don't have to worry about losing all of your documents to a computer crash. Ditto, power surges.
All of that and you can share documents with a group of contributors. Pretty neat.
Now I want to test out a calendaring program. I know a few folks in the department who use Google's online calendar.
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