Del.icio.us and Google Docs

http://del.icio.us/illiadgal

Del.icio.us seems like a pretty nice site. I liked seeing all the tags I had in common with other people, and it looks like I might even be able to find some new sites about some of my old favorite things (such as Star Wars or Harry Potter). It was very easy to use, and the only thing that confused me was adding “UKBlue2.0” to my tags, but I asked my coworker about it and she cleared up my confusion.

Google Docs was very, very easy to use and posting to my blog from it was easy-peasy as well. In fact, I'm hoping not TOO easy. LOL!

Google Docs

As I said in my blog, del.icio.us was very easy to use, and so far, so has Google Docs been. I've just clicked a few buttons and here I am typing a document. That's almost easier than opening a Word Document on a desktop! It's interesting to find all these things out on the web that I'd never think to look for.

PB Wiki

For the past hour, my coworker, Trina, and I have been creating a UK Medical Center ILL Wiki, located here:

http://ukmedilliad.pbwiki.com/Everything-You-Never-Knew-You-Wanted-to-Know-About-ILLIAD

We did not find PBWiki to be very user-friendly. It was hard to figure out exactly what to do, and we realize only now that we edited a secondary page instead of our 'front page', and I'm still not exactly sure what that meant. We tried to make our page look eye-catching and fun, but working with the fonts was murder, and eventually we just had to make the page pretty bare-boned.

I think wikis are a fun idea, but it seems easier to me to just look on the website for the product/service you're looking for instead of going first through a Wiki. I do hope, however, that our wiki will be viewed and, perhaps, helpful.

Bloglines

Today I spent some time creating my Bloglines account for activity 3 in Blue 2.0. It was a little more complicated than our initial assignments, because I wasn't understanding where exactly I was to copy the RSS feed address. Once I got that down, it was basically pretty easy. I added a few blogs (including 2.0's) to my Bloglines account, and then here on Days of Our Illiad, I added some 'Blogging Buddies'. It will be a lot easier to look in on everyone's blogs now!

I think I'm going to like the 'default' feeds they subscribed me to, as well. My favorite so far is 'About Cats'.

Now I'm on to Wikis. :)