Thing 9 - Collaboration tools

I was intrigued by the article suggested by fairpan in a comment following this Thing. The person in the article claimed they liked using the online documents better than their desktop versions and using flash drives. Now that I’ve had a little experience (very little), I don’t agree . . yet.

The link to the Google doc brought up the page and I was able to type and save in it only if I was very quick. It reloaded the page every 15-20 seconds and then I lost whatever I had done and not saved. I resorted to capturing a portion and pasting it in a Word document, changing it and then pasting it in the Google Doc. I wanted to shake that person in the article! I don’t think it should be that difficult. The ZOHO writer had me baffled for a moment, when I couldn’t access it the same way. I did figure out that I could sign in and then it was under my shared documents. This looked much more like a word processor that I am accustomed to. So, after my first attempt, I favor the ZoHo writer.

I have had issues with my flash drive losing documents when I work with them on the various computers in my two libraries. Since I want to be able to work wherever I am, I depend on my flash drive. I can see the lure of using online documents. I just may try it with something important in the future.