One Sentence: Thing #18

One Sentence - True stories, told in one sentence.

Posted using ShareThis

I found this intriguing site on the short list of Web 2.0 awards (http://www.seomoz.org/web2.0/short). To quote the About page: "One Sentence is an experiment in brevity. Most of the best stories that we tell from our lives have one really, really good part that make the rest of the boring story worth it. This is about that one line."

So, readers of the site submit their own one-sentence stories. They are fascinating! Some are funny, some are sad, many are poetic. I may try submitting my own one-liner, just for fun.

Here's one of my favorites, posted by FrogGirl: "Everyone knows me as Jessica, but he knows me as the girl who actually wept with him when his frog died."

There are lots of good features here. The tags make it easy to find more stories on a particular subject, like frog or death. The blog is interesting to keep up with. I also loved the "ShareThis" feature which allowed me to publish directly to my blog and follow the new stories on Twitter. I could also have shared via rss feed, my Facebook page, my Delicious bookmarks, or numerous other avenues.

I've already recommended this site to my Twitter friends and mentioned to others. A fun place to visit if you appreciate a good sentence!

Photo by Minnesota Children's Museum's photostream.

Web-based apps: Thing #17

I am largesse.

You are not.

I created the short document above in Google Docs and published it to my blog--easy! In fact, I found Google documents, spreadsheets, and presentations all very easy to use. I was able to create new files, save them, save them again as Microsoft products or pdfs, and publish them to my blog and to the web. Importing Microsoft products was equally easy as pie.

As I mentioned in a previous post, my colleague, http://ridiculology.blogspot.com/, had already introduced me to some of these amazing features of Google. I suggested to my son (he's in college) that he use Google docs for some of his collaborative projects. I can also see how my sister and I could use a Google spreadsheet to help us manage our mother's finances.

It's a little harder for me to see how I might use these wonderful collaboration-enhancing products at work, since it's so easy for us to save files in shared locations. And, hey--where's the Ariel Narrow I'm required to use? However, some of our collaboration is between library systems (e.g., CML, Worthington, Southwest), and it might be much easier for us to share files with Google than with, say, emailed versions of files.

Here's the best thing: Google docs might be exactly what some of our customers need. Google might be the perfect place to store resumes and other documents. Just think of it, no more lost files because the session times out!