Thing #18

Almost two years ago, frustrated that I couldn't read a Word document at home (I have WordPerfect on my home computer and don't get me started on why it is superior to Word), I discovered Google docs. Problem solved. I also use Google docs as a backup to critical documents that I can access anywhere. I find that much more useful that saving to the OCL server.

I didn't do much document sharing until this web challenge. I can't image how the committee could have functioned without Google docs. We do all the participation tracking on a Google docs spreadsheet. HR gave us a spreadsheet with all the OCL employee names that we imported to Google docs, then columns for all the Things were added. Now as we track the blog posts, (through Google Reader) , the committee members initial things that have been done by each player in the spreadsheet. I'm in awe of how much work some committee members have put into tracking especially when so many posts aren't labeled as to what thing they're for. Sometimes this is hard to figure out. (Is that a scanned image for thing 7 or a Flickr picture for thing 5 or a digital picture the player took for thing 6? AAARRGH!)

I'm looking forward to trying Zoho but I'm not in any hurry. Google apps have everything I need right now but I can see some projects coming where I'm going to check Zoho for useful apps. Zoho meeting sounds great.