Monday, March 31, 2008

23 Things on a Stick - Thing #8 – Share Your Creations

Thumbstacks – Now why didn’t someone come up with this a long time ago. This is a great tool – and will be even better once they have all the bugs ironed out. This works very well if you do not have access to powerpoint and need to create a presentation. Also, you do not need some kind of storage device to store this presentation which makes it kind of nice, all you need is access to the web. This is perfect for students or business travelers, such as sales reps. This tool rates high in my top 10 useful tools! http://www.thumbstacks.com/edit.html


Zoho Show – Just when I thought Thumbstacks was the end all on-line slide show presentation editor along comes Zoho Show and blows me away. This is definitely head and shoulders above Thumbtacks and also allows users to use an online chat utility, which of course can come in very handy for doing presentations. Imagine you would be able to do a presentation halfway around the world and have a person watching the presentation be able to ask questions and interact with the presenter as well as share their desktop. This is huge!! Fleno’s pick is Zoho Show.

Slideshare.net – Like Zoho Show this is a very good tool with lots of bells and whistles, however, the home page is quite a turnoff. It is WAY too busy. It appears that their developers are trying to put everything under the sun on one webpage. I would say because of this it would probably tie with Thumbstacks for second place!



Sharing Photos – Hmmm. Again I am not a big fan of sharing photos on-line and I think I already commented on the Flickr thing. Although it certainly has it’s place on the web for jazzing up a site I don’t see much of a use for it other than spicing up the webpage.


Databases – Okay this is a very useful online tool. This will allow people to share information and create a good source of information, because you can have many people do this as a collective project. It is however, hard for me to get excited about the database creation tools online as I have been doing things like this professionally for the past 10 years or so. All in all though this is a wonderful concept.


e-Folio – This is a great tool and should actually be required for any and all graduating students from a post secondary institute. It is here where potential employers would look to find their workforce. The setup is very simple and easy and to use. Since e-folio is kept electronically this is a perfect e-resume. Eventually this is where the resume will end up – if not already.

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