Thing 19 - Google Docs

Google Docs has so many possibilities! A colleague from CT and I have already used it to share information about a group we're working with to knit afghans to give to children at the next Medical Library Association Meeting. But I didn't really look at all the options. Love the forms / survey possibilities.
This will be a great way to share committee work; when preparing agendas, revising procedure manuals or bylaws or presentations - how easy to share and make changes. And the Pediatric Libraries group compiles & updates a list of core pediatric titles (books & journals) every year - how much easier to place this into a spreadsheet on Google Docs and let us each make our section's changes, & keep up with what others are doing too. Wow! Then just turn it into a PDF and Voila!

Not as much use within my own organization because we already use sharepoint and some other tools to share, and because so much of what we do much be kept inside the firewall... But inter-organization sharing, nice..

And of course, nice for personal stuff, too, because it is so platform-independent. Doesn't matter if the rest of my family is in California and doesn't use a Mac, or if my dad has much older WORD software than I do... We can still collaborate easily (who wants to come to the football party, and what are you bringing, and what time should we eat and how many tickets do you need?). Could even share address labels (some neat templates available).
Wow again. I'm looking forward to making use of this!