My Latest Find!

We were working away in the office the other day, while many of you were home enjoying the snow, and as we were discussing some upcoming professional development opportunities several documents were shared.  Okay, you may be asking yourself… and I care why?  You care because we were using my latest, greatest find to share them.  Not only could we share documents from computer to computer; I also use it to keep all my documents synced from one computer to another.  I can go home, log in, and my computer at home will flash across the screen…you have 3 documents updated.  The most beautiful part about that is I have done NOTHING except save my documents.

Enough suspense?  Is she ever going to tell us what this lastest find is?

You owe it to yourself to have a look at http://www.getdropbox.com .  Now, it is a free service with 2 gigs of storage, which is plenty if you are talking documents not pictures and movies.  Free is also good and I go into it knowing that when it is free:  1)It may not stay free, or 2)It may not always be there, but 3)Free is great for now!

I shared this with my good friend, Mitch Skau, who downloaded it to his Mac immediately.  I got a lovely email from him just days later as his Mac crashed suddenly/unexpectedly and he took it all in stride because he had all his most important documents backed up already to GetDropBox.

We have preached backing up your files many times in trainings, but it is one of those things we just don’t practice unless we have a signficiant crash and it costs us dearly or we are just people who follow the rules (I am more the first case type.)  So have a look at GetDropBox.com and see if it might be a good fit for you!