Google Docs
A good number of patrons come to the library to create documents. For nearly 5 years we've offered the OpenOffice.org suite for this purpose. Unfortunately, unless it was a document that you could complete in a single sitting, you needed to save this document to floppy, CD, or USB device. Items that could be lost or damaged. What if you could leave these documents in a secure location, where you could then reach them at any time, from any Internet connected PC? Or better yet, provide others the ability to view or modify them.
Google Documents is a great tool for doing just this, along with Google's incredible searching options to location your information later. With announcements this week about new charting tools for their spreadsheet application, and a PowerPoint like presentation package coming this summer, it's becoming a very attractive option.
I'm typing this as a Google document from San Francisco, and will use it to create this post when I return. Check out Google Docs at http://docs.google.com