#46 keeping up

Great use of Zoho by Jamie on the PLMC blog to keep up to date with tools that are constantly changing I can see we will need to be regularly checking for updates or it will get messy. Which tool do you go with?. Do you change when they do? Can you move information over if they close ? Will you lose information? ( backups backups) I like the use of the very tools we explored "zoho" to maintain currency
I see in the update that Google have added something similar to librarything to Google books but without the social aspect, the emphasis is on research not socialising although the tags and personal libraries are accessible to others.
Just an interesting aside, Kingston library have incorporated" library thing" into their public catalogue good on them, worth watching to see how the community use it.
I decided to check out one of my favourites web 2.0 tools Zotero (really useful research tool only available with Firefox browser) and yes, updates were available it now can search, upload ,link export and take snapshots of flickr ,you tube pages as well as many other formats and provide a wider range of citations. You can snap shot a web page see it within the tool highlight sections and add side notes just as you would to hard copy.

#18 ZOHO wandering

Whilst wandering around ZOHO I can see how it could be useful for collaborative work similar to google docs. The need for these may grow with the limitations often placed by IT departments on what one can create and save in the system, these tools by pass this problem by saving out in the ether.

Managed successfully to create the above in ZOHO and publish through to here, it was very fast .The option to email to specific others enabling them to read/ write could be useful it limits collaborative work to a specific document and would not require giving out passwords etc. I like the option of embedding training shows into a staff or public blog.

The wiki option was tempting so I have created a collaborative tale in wiki format. the tale of Janeway 21st librarian Feel free to add to the tale.