Cool Toyz: Free Online Productivity Tools

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Cool Toyz Free Online Productivity Tools

• Lorena OEnglish
• Washington State University Libraries
• oenglish_at_wsu.edu
• Yahoo/MSN/AIM IM wsulorena

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Productivity What do we want to do?

• Organize and manage your own stuff
• Work collaboratively
• Use graphics
• ???

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Decision Rules for Change

• Is there a need?
• Does the tool solve that need?
• Does it work for you/your workflow?
• Future thinking

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Organizing and Managing Stuff

• Evernote http//www.evernote.com/en/

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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)

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

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Working Collaboratively Sharing

• Documents, Spreadsheets, etc.
• Google Docs Spreadsheets
• http//docs.google.com
• Zoho
• http//zoho.com

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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!!!
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A little tweaking
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Cautions
http//spokesmanreview.com/features/story.asp?ID2
11006
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Cautions Whos Holding your IP?
http//mydigimedia.com/2007/08/09/who_owns_what_me
dia_v20.html
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ImplementationPush, 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

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