Thing 11: Productivity and Collaboration Tools

Awwww Thing 11. Part of the reason I have procrastinated this one so far is for the same reason that lifeofalibrarian stated. I too found the list quite daunting, but mostly reading the explanations of what each site does made me think I'd never use it or find it all that helpful. For this task I have chosen these 3 tools to discuss:

Workflowy:
I noticed a trend among 23 Things bloggers that Workflowly was actually helpful. I have to say I do like it and I can see how it would be useful. My partner is currently finishing off a PhD and I can see something like Workflowy being useful for him. If I needed a detailed list for studies, I would consider using Workflowy. Originally I looked at it with chores in mind but rather than having to refer to my laptop frequently (my phone is not very web capable) I think I'll be sticking to a paper list.

Doodle:
I could see this being useful, particularly for anyone trying to organise a group assignment, event or just a group of people. I could see that it could be an asset to avoid a heap of emails trying to organise a date and time.

Hootsuite:
This is something that I have used before in my old job. It was great because it helped organise all the updates into one handy place and it was easy to use and read. I used to love the statistics, it was quite gratifying to see that the posts made by the library were being read. Plus it was interesting to see which posts were being clicked through, and hence what students are interested in reading.