I am familiar with several of these tools, having been introduced to Google Docs through work projects earlier this year. One of the things I've done in Google Docs is create a spreadsheet of books that the State Library was discarding. It was easy to then copy the link and send the list to various listservs without having to worry about compatibility with others' MS Word versions.
Other things I've used on the web-based productivity applications list are Doodle and SurveyMonkey. Doodle was great in helping to organize meetings. Possible attendees can put in what dates/times don't work for them and it makes selecting a date/time for a meeting so much easier than emailing or calling everyone. I used SurveyMonkey to put together the SD Library Association conference attendee survey. An email link as well as a web link are created, so that when the conference is over, I can email the survey link to all of the attendees and the web link can also be placed on the SDLA website. A free account only allows 10 questions, but this was just enough. It will be so much easier to compile responses now, rather than have to re-key everything from paper copies to create a master response document. I found a similar feature to create surveys in Google Docs - Forms option.
I will be exploring a calendar option, mainly for the sole purpose of organizing family and friend birthdays! No longer do we have to write those on a wall calendar from one year to the next. Great stuff!
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