This document summarizes and recommends various free online productivity tools for organizing, collaborating, and using graphics. It discusses Evernote for organizing notes and clips, social bookmarking services like Delicious and LibraryThing for collaboratively sharing bookmarks, and Google Docs and Zoho for collaboratively editing documents and spreadsheets. It also lists several image tools for uploading, downloading, creating thumbnails, and editing photos. It cautions users to be aware of who owns their data and intellectual property when using free online services.

1. Cool Toyz: Free Online Productivity Tools Lorena O’English Washington State University Libraries [email_address] Yahoo/MSN/AIM IM: wsulorena

2. Productivity: What do we want to do? Organize and manage your own stuff Work collaboratively Use graphics ???

3. Decision Rules for Change Is there a need? Does the tool solve that need? Does it work for you/your workflow? Future thinking…

4. Organizing and Managing Stuff Evernote http://www.evernote.com/en/

5. EverNote New metaphor: from documents on files to notes on an endless tape. Can save text, MS Office items, images, clips from webpages and email, and more; saves link to online source. Notes are categorized using tags Find by date, category(s) or search Customizable, via template forms that can be shared with others Can email notes to others Automatic backup (5 most recent)

7. Right-click on the email or highlighted text to add to EN

10. EverNote Tools EverNote ”Universal” Clipper Clipping integrated into IE and Firefox browsers and email clients via bookmarklets and/or browser add-ons. Upcoming web-based add-on: storing, tagging, searching, and sharing.

11. Working Collaboratively: Sharing Save and share Web sites via social bookmarking services: Bookmarks accessible anywhere Social - searchable, traceable, sharable, sendable Bookmarklets allow easy saving Archivable Del.icio.us www.furl.net Librarything: http://www.librarything.com/

15. Working Collaboratively: Sharing Documents, Spreadsheets, etc. Google Docs & Spreadsheets http://docs.google.com Zoho http://zoho.com

24. Use Graphics Fotoflexor - http:// fotoflexer.com/start.php Phixr – http://www.phixr.com 3hrs to upload to Flickr, PhotoBucket, etc. or download Picnik - http://www.picnik.com/ For immediate uploading/downloading Pixenate - http://pixenate.com/ SnipShot - http:// snipshot.com / Thumbalizr - http://www.thumbalizr.com Creates thumbnails from screen or page; resizable … and IrfanView!!!

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27. Cautions: http://spokesmanreview.com/features/story.asp?ID=211006

28. Cautions: Who’s Holding your IP? http://mydigimedia.com/2007/08/09/who_owns_what_media_v20.html

29. Implementation: Push, not Pull Modeling and training (Patrons too!) Make it easy Automatic application opening Create a *useful* home page with links to what you use Use RSS/syndication Consistency! …watch out for money/time pits

30. Questions??? http:// wiki.wsu.edu/wsuwiki/Productivity_Tools Gilding the Molly…