To-do: Make to-do list

What, you may ask, does a picture of our kayaks, poised to launch, have to do with Remember the Milk or Jott? Not a thing! Except, let's all add to those lists the things we mean do more of when summer actually comes.

[Actually, those would be more suited to 43 Things.]

Features I liked about this weeks' tools are the interfacing possibilities with Google Calendar. I will be able to see my posted Remember the Milk tasks on my Google Calendar, or send events to it, via my phone, using Jott. I did sign up for a personal Jott account, so it will be fun to play with that. And think how much I will get done!

Now Flash Drives are old news

So if I use Google Docs to do the documents I'm forever shuttling back and forth on the flash drive...Hmmm... I think I get it.

I was already signed in to Google Docs and had some things languishing in cyber-limbo, but now I see that it just becomes part of my web-based world (web-based email, both work and home; web-based photos, web-based calendar, etc). Who needs a briefcase anymore?

My coworker Mary already has us Lakeview Ref staff started with a project we all need to weigh in on and through that already I see some features about Google docs really make sense. The fact that you can not only see who made what changes and when, but that you can roll back to earlier versions make the program especially useful.

For our purposes here at Lakeview, the public can save documents that they would otherwise not be able to save to the library's hard drive, even if we're out of the notoriously unreliable floppies.

"Mr. Watson. Come Here. I need you."

I'm still IMing here, PPers. I loaded the Meebo Widget, mainly because I wanted the practice of dumping HTML code onto the blog. (thanks Emily) At this point, I like Google chat better, but that's just because I'm new to Meebo and it keeps whimsically logging me out and I'm not sure why.
I also downloaded Google Talk to a computer in our library work area as per a PP suggestion, but I'd like to think if I were more savvy I could disable the feature that alerts you when you receive a PERSONAL email, by popping up a window with the email displayed (OK, that alert feature is disabled and, once again, thanks Emily). For our Lakeview purposes, it will be lovely to have that pop-up window for a chat alert between workers, since it would be an upgrade from Sequoya's cast-off walkie talkies. I can see how this would not only be helpful for intraworkplace communications, but also be a great boon in many ways to keeping the library world relevant to patrons.