As I'm already familiar with Google docs, Google reader and I already have an iGoogle page set up I thought I'd explore Eventbrite and Zamzar. I converted a personal doc file to pdf. It seems pretty straight forward. Just follow steps 1,2,3 etc. Having to go to my email to receive the converted files seemed a little tedious but otherwise it was easy to use and could be useful. I also followed their instructions and coverted a copy of the Magna Carta. But best of all I coverted a Youtube video and it wasn't difficult at all.
Next i looked at Eventbrite because although I was aware of it because of the children's holiday programs I had never used it. I did a search for library events in Boroondara but only got Sandringham and Hobsons Bay (2 pages of Hobson Bay events!). Where are the Boroondara events??? From a customer point of view it's easy to use.
Finally I chose to look at Lulu from the Web 2.0 award categories. It seemed like a great self publishing tool and at first I thought Great we could do library brochures but then realized there are costs involved so don't know how relevant this site is. So I looked at Biblio. Got a bit excited and looked up nursery rhymes. Found zero! Then refined the search and bingo found heaps. Got a bit frustrated. When I tried to sort the list (by price or author) I kept getting the following message "unable to find any books matching your criteria" which clearly wasn't true. Very frustrating, however I can see it could be a useful tool for finding those out of print books etc. There are probably better sites.
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