Online applications and tools

I believe online applications and tools may have limited use when the collaboration is internal to the Library. Our shared drives/documents can achieve this purpose. However, when we are working with colleagues outside the library, these tools come in to their own. The NSLA collaborative projects are a great example of this. Organising a teleconference timeslot, we were all directed to doodle to nominate our available times on a calendar. Worked brilliantly! As I am working on more and more cross-agency projects, the potential for the sharing of documents is great. What fun! :-)