Plaxo

I have joined Plaxo and added some events to the calendar. It is good. I must confess I have only recently started taking advantage of Yahoo's Calendar. I now get an email message every day with events, plus reminders.

Here is my wish list for work:

I would like to have a web based email/calendar system at work that can be accessed form home. Then, no matter when, or where, I am logged on, I could activate my account. I know Lotus notes has the ability to plan and book meetings. It would be great if Philippa, Sharee and I could do all our meeting communication this way. But ideally we would need to be able to check these dates on desk, from home, in a meeting: anywhere. As it is we have to replicate them in a dairy.

Something like Plaxo has great potential but it is not secure enough for work inforation. And we do not enjoy continuous and reliable acces to a computer network. At a typical Youth Services meeting we turn up with our paper diaries, we bring along gids and timetables that we have printed out. We make notes and plans, on paper. We then have to enter them into out electronic system. It is messy and time consuming. I carry around a folder of printed information in addition to my diary. It is the only way I can juggle a part time/timeshare position.

Perhaps libraries need a laptop purchase scheme (like public school teachers have). Then we could just plug into a dickign station. I know it all costs money but this is a wish list. We need to be online, all the time, to be able to make the most of these applications fully.

I will now jump off my sopabox and do some shelving. :-)