Twitter

I'm not on board with Twitter - I don't feel the need to follow anyone & I'm not quite self absorbed enough to record my every thought. If I want information I'll usually go a website or one of the blogs I follow. Perhaps it's a generational thing..... Anyways, I get enough unwanted stuff just thru' my facebook account. I'm trying to streamline & simplify my life not clutter it up even more.

LibraryThing

Library Thing is quite simple to navigate. I've not used it before for reader's advisory but I wonder if it would be more user friendly for customers than novelist? - & perhaps more interesting given the social networking side of it & the opportunity to read comments from other readers.
I've not used LibraryThing myself. A couple of years ago I joined Shelfari - altho' it's been so long since I used it that I couldn't remember my password when I recently tried to sign in. Maybe I should join LibraryThing!

Online Productivity Tools

I found Google Docs to be a really useful app & easy to get the hang of. This is one thing I'm likely to use. (I have to say that I still like my daytimer on paper). I can see myself using google docs with my team of community volunteers. It will make it much simpler to edit things were working on together.
The other thing I appreciate is how easy my documents will be to access. Instead of saving to a stick or emailing to myself at another location I can access from any computer & not just my own desktop.

flickr/youtube

I spent an enjoyable half hour viewing pictures of the uk on flickr. I'm heading their tomorrow so it was great to get a preview of some of the places I'll be. Many of them were taken by someone who shares my maiden name - maybe we're related!

I was surprised to see how many people post picture of their babies & children for all the world to see. No way I'd do that.

Remember "My Cubicle" - popular a few years ago - a parody of the James Blunt song "You're Beautiful"? There are lots of versions on youtube - I sent one to my son when he got his first job in a cube. He wasn't amused.