T8 Learning Activity 8: Online Writing Tools

Google Docs: You can easily do all the basics, including making bulleted lists, sorting by columns, adding tables, images, comments, formulas, changing fonts and more and it's free. This is perhaps the most frequently mentioned processor of its kind, simply for the fact that it is a Google based product. Google Docs is quite capable of replacing virtually all common tasks that your typical desktop-based whiteboard can manage. Zoho Writer: Is a Web- based online office suite containing word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, databases, note-taking, wikis, CRM, project management, invoicing and other applications developed by ZOHO Corporation Additional products, such as spreadsheets and presentations, were incorporated later into Zoho Software utilities are hosted on remote servers rather than on personal computers. The user accesses the utilities via a web browser. This application is superb in all sorts of ways. It runs neck-and-neck with Google Docs as features go, yet it’s has the added appeal of being an independent option. In a manner of speaking, Zoho Writer has big talent without the big title. Word Press: Is an open source CMS, often used as a blog publishing application powered by PHP and MySQL. It has many features including a plug-in architecture and a templating system. Used by over 12% of the 1,000,000 biggest websites, Word Press is the most popular CMS in use today. Renowned for its simplicity, openness and extensibility. WordPress.com is a hosted blogging service of immense popularity largely because it’s free. Twitter: The most popular and most recognized micro blogging solution presently in play, Twitter has many functions. It’s used as a marketing engine. It’s used to talk to “followers.” It’s even used to chronicle poems and verse, as well as brief novella-like inventions. NYTimes reporter Matt Richtel is one figure who employed the platform for creative ends. Think Free Office: Think Free Office includes a word processor (Write), a spreadsheet (Calc), a presentation program (Show), and a WYSIWYG HTML and blog editor (Note). Think Free Office reads and writes to Microsoft Office file formats (.doc, .xls, and .ppt). Think Free Office has a look and feel similar to Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, providing a degree of familiarity to new users. It doesn’t get spoken about very often, but Think Free Write application is able to swim with bigger fish if it’s tasked to do so. You may like or dislike it for various reasons, but technically speaking, it’s quite fortuitous.