online productivity software Thing

Next "thing" on the 27 things list is the online productivity suite (a la Google Docs or Zoho Writer). This is just a tiny bit coincidental, I suppose because the last "thing" was the wiki. As I was writing my post for the wiki exercise, I was trying to wrap my mind around the difference between a wiki and a product like Google Docs or Zoho. After all, both technologies are great for online collaboration among people (or even just for one person using multiple workstations). I suppose the biggest difference is in the intended use of the end product. I envision documents created in Google Docs or Zoho as intended to be documents with a defined point at which no further editing is necessary and, likely, as a document that will be printed. Wikis, on the other hand, are collaborative pieces of information that can be revisited whenever an update is required (a la Wikipedia). I'm sure there are different perspectives on this but the two technologies do seem fairly similar to me. This post, then, is my first shot at using Zoho Writer. I must say, it is extremely easy to use (as is Google Docs) and the ability to import a document directly into my blog is kind of cool, too. Usually, I just write my blog posts directly in the editor provided by Blogger. This is because I rarely do any re-writing. If I could ever develop the (strongly suggested) habit of the good writer (re-write, re-write, re-write), I might find a tool like Writer to be of use. Anyway, as this is simply an exercise, I'm going to stick in a photo I took yesterday of Sacramento Public Library's newest library (set for Grand Opening on August 29!), the Valley Hi - North Laguna Library. Check it out; it's beautiful!

UPDATE:

Clearly, the photo I embedded in the Writer document did not make it from Zoho to Blogger. No worries, here are a shot of the new library embedded in Blogger:

As opposed to the difficulty in bringing a photo over from Writer to my blog, the process of exporting my Writer document directly into my blog couldn't have been easier. One click, enter my Blogger username and password, and submit. It even gave me the option of exporting the data as a draft post only. Pretty cool.