School's going OK, and I'm excited (make that *super* excited!) to intern at the Andy Warhol Museum starting in May, doing cataloging on their Time Capsule Project---Warhol left thousands of boxes of things, junk, and letters from famous people, etc. Basically, all mixed up, and it is our job to go through it all! So far I've heard of them working on a letter Warhol received from Jacquelin Kennedy Onassis to shredded bills in an envelop.
A woman who works at the Law Library (here on campus) came to give a talk on "Web 2.0" stuff. I'm happy to say I actually heard about a few things I hadn't heard before in the past 3 months. Here are some cool new tools out there:
Jott is a really neat little thing. It saves a voice mail and converts it to text. So, for example, say you are on a walk and you remember something you need to do tomorrow, but you can't write it down. Well, all you have to do is CALL and leave a message, and Jott will covert your message to text so you don't have to write it down. And it's free! Let's just hope their voice-recognition software is high quality...
BigThink: Think of this as YouTube for grown-ups. This is a place where people, whether they are experts on topics or not, can come and discuss and debate issues (politics, news, history, the meaning of life...pretty much anything!) . Basically, it is an interactive discussion forum with video being the medium. People post their opinions on certain topics, and anyone who wishes can respond or continue the discussion can post a video of themselves.
Doodle helps schedule meetings easily without all the email and phone tagging to figure it out---this thing takes all the times available from every one's busy schedule and then comes back with a time that will work for everyone :-)
You can use Basecamp to help you get big projects done! This will save information (contact numbers, calendar, etc) so you will have everything you need in one place. Yay!
Perhaps someone somewhere out there will find these gadgets useful.
BigThink: Think of this as YouTube for grown-ups. This is a place where people, whether they are experts on topics or not, can come and discuss and debate issues (politics, news, history, the meaning of life...pretty much anything!) . Basically, it is an interactive discussion forum with video being the medium. People post their opinions on certain topics, and anyone who wishes can respond or continue the discussion can post a video of themselves.
Doodle helps schedule meetings easily without all the email and phone tagging to figure it out---this thing takes all the times available from every one's busy schedule and then comes back with a time that will work for everyone :-)
You can use Basecamp to help you get big projects done! This will save information (contact numbers, calendar, etc) so you will have everything you need in one place. Yay!
Perhaps someone somewhere out there will find these gadgets useful.
2 comments:
Hi Monika,
I must say that i really enjoy using web 2.0 tools. I've tried some of the tools in your list and they are very helpful in everyday work.
For managing projects I strongly recommend ProjectOffice.net.
It is an online project management tool that also provides collaboration features.
And what is best, it is completely free of charge. You will be amazed of its simplicity and very intuitive GUI.
I believe that you will like it a lot.
So, try it and let me what you think.
Sincerely,
Natalija
In our library we use Wrike for bigger projects. It's email integrated and it's really simple to create and edit tasks via email. We've tried Basecamp, but this one suits us much better :)
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