Wednesday, February 13, 2008

aHA! Zoho!

MY LAST KRL2pt0 assignment! yahoo! (yes, I did them out of order...)

Anyway, just signed up for a Zoho account, and I can see the possibilities here. I belong to an organic buying club & we're always looking for better ways to know who is ordering what so we can get better prices and more consistent orders. The Zoho software and Googledocs both have good spreadsheet applications that could make this more efficient. No emailing spreadsheets. Everyone can see what everyone else is ordering. etc etc etc.

I think it would be helpful to do a "tour" of Zoho, or have an online demo of all it features, but for what I'm thinking it's pretty straightforward. I like that when you select the tool you want, it takes you directly to a very familar-feeling spreadsheet, wordprocessor, whatever.

Applications for the library? What if we didn't have to purchase application licesnses to be able to offer wordprocessing and spreadsheet tools to our patrons? This does that. What if students didn't need to be able to afford a computer in order to do their homework. Pretty cool. Yet another way to open the door to all the other really cool things the library has to offer.

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