So where DO you put it all?

OK - It's Sunday night and I'm back again to do me blogging thing on what I've been delving into this week..........the fact is,  I have been busy doing something called work, so have had very little time to wander the WWW and dip me tootsies into all these exciting new pools of learning that are being tantalisingly offered up on a weekly basis!

However, one of the interesting concepts that I've been pondering since the last learning session is this - Yes, indeed, where do you put it all?, especially when you want others to be able to access it any time, any place, anywhere? (wasn't that the Martini ad? and aren't I showing my age?!!)

I had a look at some of these marvellous online storage places, like Dropbox, Boxnet etc and was about to leap into these spaces so I would be able to abandon my wilful and arbitrary filing system which only I can navigate, when I realised two things -

 a) the people I wished to share my documents with would have to have a degree of techno savvy or a willingness to learn how to get to this filing 'room' and

 b) I would have to be sure that these sites weren't going to be blocked at work!!!!! Hmmm.....

 a) was OK - I think I can teach them if they haven't done this before as it's pretty straightforward.
 b) on the other hand, could be problematic - or at least, take some time to solve.

A simple solution was found  - use the online storage space supplied with MSN/Outlook through work (I remember reading something about it some time ago, but chose to ignore it as didn't have time to explore it)  So, all done and dusted - Skydrive is set up, my profile completed, a group set up and invitations extended to specific colleagues with whom collaboration on documents is vital for training materials!  I've even uploaded all the documents and filed them in their own little folders - now all I have to do is explain to everyone what it is I've invited them to participate in! 

It certainly beats e mailing docs to everyone (once I've remembered where exactly I've put the latest version.....) and then awaiting their replies with changes made, saving it all into one version....and then emailing the final version to everyone........and so it goes on

The only thing I would miss aboutt the good old days is meeting up by the communal filing cabinets for a rummage, a gossip and maybe even a cup of tea and a biscuit whilst working around the table on a set of documents.........all things must pass :-(

So long, and by the way, I never did get around to communing with the little blue birdies........maybe in the Easter holidays when I have a spare bit of festive crumb to share with them...?  

TTFN (Ta Ta For Now to the unenlightened............!!)  :-)