Monday, September 8, 2008
#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.
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Hey, I'm curious about your problem with Gliffy. Can you send me some more info on the problem you were having? Gliffy is a flash application that runs as a plugin in your browser; the sign-up process is done that way.
If your browser didn't have flash or you weren't on the network, it might not have worked, but if there's a problem with signup, we'd definitely like to know so it doesn't cause anyone any problems!
Thanks,
Dave
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