Week 5 and Hanging in There

This has not been one of my best weeks, personally or professionally. Just alot of "Murphy Law" days, but I did love learning about Google Docs. I have uploaded a document, spreadsheet and a PowerPoint presentation that I have used, or going to use and put it there. Being on Google I can get it anywhere and work on it. This is wonderful as I do not have the funds to buy Outlook by Microsoft for my Word, Excel and PowerPoint features. Now I can work on something at work or home and then send it wherever it needs to be. I looked at Zoho and WEbex, but not being a free site completely and Google being one, well it does not take a genius to figure where I put my vote. This week has been as useful as last week and I am very glad I continued in this course, especially after all the talk about not finishing that have been on the listserv etc. Thank you again for all the good information as I will be using it this fall when I present the Grand Rounds Continiuing Medical Education for the physicians and staff. But I forgot to answer the question from the homework: Yes I see this being the way of the future. I see us working via computers and sending messages back and forth, possibly never seeing members of a committee as they may be worldwide instead of just down the hall or across in the next building. It is a little scary to think you may just be at work in a cubicle or maybe just at home and doing all your work from there, depending on your job. Those of us remembering the times when you got 'real' people when you called a business instead of a computer voice will feel sad that those personal days are gone. Yet when you think of the convience of leaving voice messages instead of calling back a dozen times to find the person 'in', it seems to save alot of time and frustration. Times change, I am not always sure if it is for the better or worse, maybe I will never know.