I don't think I had heard of 'Online Tools' before today, however when I started to read about them I realised that I have in fact used them. My email provider is Gmail and I have used Google Documents to open Word and Excel documents from home because I don't have Microsoft Office on my own PC. I have also been able to work on these documents and save them, meaning I can then open them anywhere in the world that has Internet access. If necessary, I can also allow others to work on the same documents. How amazing is that?
Google Contacts is also very good. I have all my friends' addresses and telephone numbers stored in my Google Contacts. No need to worry any more about losing my address book as long as I have Internet access!
I have also used Google Calendar to schedule my social calendar, appointments and friends' birthdays etc - no need to worry any more about forgetting something, as Google sends a reminder!
Doodle is another handy Online Tool for scheduling an event. I have used this at work to respond to an event invitation - in fact, the meeting for the distribution of 23 Things certificates! - but I have just signed up for my own account and had a practise at scheduling an event. Completely non work related, but this is going to be handy for inviting people to a meal for my cousin's 50th birthday and finding out who can manage and what time would suit them best!
Online tools can also be used to store photos, documents and music on sites such as http://www.scrapblog.com/ and http://www.spotify.com - this is useful in case of hard drive failure!
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