This is my first post from the WordPress Dashboard widget. I also just set up the Google Maps widget and the Marquee widget which displays local showtimes.
I must admit, I haven’t used the widgets as much as I intially thought I would. This is partly because I already have some of the functionality offered by the widgets in my Firefox search toolbar – it’s a lot easier to search Wikipeadia from within the browser than to toggle back and forth between the browser and the dashboard. However, given how easy some of these widgets are to configure and access, I can see myself using them a lot more for applications where they decrease the number of steps involved. This is especially true in the case of the Marquee and WordPress widgets as now I have one-click access to view showtimes and post to my blog.
Originally published June 14, 2005 in the Amy@MEdTech blog.
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