Monday, March 21, 2016

Thing 9: Online Productivity Tools


For the discovery exercise, I began by creating an account in Zoho Docs on my mobile phone.  I did so by going into the playstore, the application on android where you purchase your apps, and I downloaded and installed Zoho. It asked for me to confirm my email address so I decided to continue working through the webpage on my computer to take a few screen shots of my activity.

Zoho Docs gave you the option to sign in using your Google account that was the other discovery exercise to explore. I do notice that a lot of tools let you log on through Google Docs.

Zoho Docs allows you to create documents, spreadsheets, and other presentations while also saving them. You are able to access the information from any location using a device with internet connection at any time. As an example, I created a quick document from notes that I took from a meeting.  This application was so convenient that I was able to type it right from my phone and save it. If I also shared my notes with my team member that was absent from the meeting.

When logging back on to the website it automatically pulls up all the documents that were created and automatically saved. There is also a way for you to create your own network with the choice of it being either internally or externally  within you organization. Zoho also allows you to create a mailing address for free.  However, for businesses and/or organizations  it would cost, depending on what particular plan you chose which was also based off of how often you used the server. Getting started you can create, upload and edit your documents, spreadsheets, and presentations online. You can add users and organizations share and collaborate with colleagues. Many of these tools are the same from Google Docs but it has a little more to offer. I like how it points to the area to go to and gives you a quick idea of what you are about to work on. Very organized!
  
 


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