Thing #12: Google Docs & Online Productivity September 1, 2008
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The availability and use of online productivity web-based applications has exploded over the past few years and for good reasons! These powerful applications provide users with the ability to create and share documents over the internet without the need of installed desktop applications. Some experts speculate that this emerging trend may mean the death to Microsoft Office and other software-based productivity tools, while others think web-based applications have their place, but not in the office. But no matter which side of the office suite platform you side with, on this both sides seem to agree; web-based apps have their place.
These applications fall into a variety of categories including online office tools like spreadsheets, presentations and word processing, calendars, start pages, project management tools, to-do lists, personal organizers, sticky notes, online collaboration tools, and much, much more. A search on “online productivity tools” turns up many lists of these tools.
We have already introduced you to some productivity tools—RSS aggregators do save time as you keep up with the news and information you need. Del.icio.us is a tool that makes bookmarking more efficient.
This Thing exploresGoogle Docs to create basic word processing documents, presentations, or spreadsheets from scratch or you can upload your existing files. Google Docs accepts most popular file formats, including DOC, XLS, ODT, ODS, RTF, CSV, PPT, etc. You can share documents with a select group or make the document public.
September 5, 2008 In response to:Thing #12: Google Docs & Online Productivity Barbara Braxton commented:
This was suggested as an alternative to Google Docs on LM_NET today ... www.adobe.com/acom/buzzword/ It's from the folk who gave us Acrobat reader et al.
Another is www.box.com
