This page gives a quick overview of what works for what and what to beware of

	Good for	Not good for	Pros	Cons	Watch out for	AOB	Learning Curve
Mailing lists	Coordinating activities, keeping in touch with supporters,	Sharing large files, collaborative work on-line, recruiting new support	Simple, quick and cheap	Low visibility	Trolls		easy (Send and Reply email)
Wikis	Collaborative work	Tasks that require hierarchy and secrecy	Cheap, easy to use, transparent, in many cases much better than using e-mails, history area (nothing is ever erased)	History area all actions are documented	Spam		Steep (needs a tutorial - new people have difficulty embracing wikis)
Social networking sites	Keeping up-to-date on people, finding friends of friends who can assist, searching for people with specific skills, job searching				People whom you do not know who want you to join their network for no good reason		easy
Forums	Discussing a specific question, expressing many opinions, moving towards a decision	Long discussions that last many weeks or months			"Flaming" wars: people getting emotional and upset about a topic. That is the time to move the discussion to another format (phone, face-to-face meeting)		easy
Shared Referencing	Finding out about links that might interest you, sharing links you identified, promoting links so others learn about them