Saturday, May 7, 2011

#18 - Online Productivity Tools

Zoho Docs or Google Docs is a free online word processor/spread sheet as well as presentation software that provide free workspace and file storage for the creating, sharing and editing of document by a group of collaborators.  For example, for a group of students working on a school project, everyone of them can participate in editing the project planning and report writing.  Since the document (file) is stored in Zoho Docs or Google Docs and not in anyone's own computer, members with permission can go online to edit the document.  The programs can also be used by small business owners to do the business planning , budget, and inventory without investing in the expensive MS Office Suite.  They can also use the program's templates to design and print out advertising materials.
I have created a short test document in Google Docs called "testdocument.txt". The file contains a single sentence "This is a test of creating a document in Google Docs and exporting it to my Learning 2.0, Things #18. The address of the test document in Google Docs is in the following URL:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CdHjkIHNmTrcilORkysZ8fr04DhWKxqa9xinpDhXb9I/edit?hl=en#

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