Collaboration is the name of the game

I think I'm an avid internet user. I like to find things and tinker with new tech. A big thing that I enjoy using these days is Google Documents and Spreadsheets. I've been using them for less than a year but its helpful to me to be able to create non sensitive documents or spreadsheets and just save them to the web. I don't put personal crap in there since it is being written and saved on the internet. It's sorta like email but without all the hassle of firing up Word or Excel, typing it up, saving it to my computer, then going into my email program and sending it to myself which if you think about it is kinda silly.

The collaboration part is pretty nifty too. I use it with my wife every once in a while like when I need to create a doc or a spreadsheet that we're both going to send out or if its something that I need for her to review. I find it better than sending emails back and forth and then trying to figure out what was changed or looking at the ugly pink comment boxes that Word and Excel give you. I haven't had cause to use it much with her but I'm slowly getting her to come around to using it every now and then. A perfect example is the Christmas lists that we're compiling. I would have used Google Docs and Spreadsheets but we're doing it for the whole family and not everyone has a Google account. I think over the course of the year I'm going to corrupt a few more members of our family to start using it. This way I won't have to send out any more emails.