#20 The last hurrah!

It has certainly been a fascinating journey of discovery. Just looking at all the listings in the Web 2.0 Awards is mind boggling. I decided to compare Microsoft's Live Search maps and Google maps and found Google maps much better. I don't know if I was doing something wrong, but I could not get a map for any Australian addresses in Live Search. I find the constant competetiveness of these 2 companies fascinating - each trying to break into the other's market (eg Google docs to compete with Microsoft Office products and Live Search to compete with Google search).

Thanks for the journey. But just a suggestion for the future - a few more hints on how to navigate and use some of these websites would have been extremely useful.

#19 Flowcharts and Mind Maps

I was very excited about the possibility of doing flow charts for various library procedures. I write up a lot of procedures and thought that a flow chart might make the procedure clearer to follow. I decided to register with Flowchart.com. However, when it came time to use it I found it extremely difficult. I couldn't work out how to navigate my way around it. I managed to add some wording to one of the bubbles, but couldn't get rid of the wording already there. And I couldn't find any instructions. After several frustrating attempts I gave it away and decided to try Gliffy.com. Once again I struck problems as I was unable to open the page to register. All I got was a blank page. Thinking it might be our network I tried on a stand alone PC and still could not get the 'registering' page to open. So I moved on to mind maps - and gave Bubble a go. This was certainly much easier to use, but was really just a forum to clarify my thoughts on a procedure rather than helpful in actually setting up a procedure.