Does anybody use Google Apps for their organization?
Google Apps (Education Edition) is free for non-profits under 3000 employees. We currently use it to manage email for our domain and host a public calendar for our co-op. (For more info: http://www.google.com/apps/)
In addition to the usual Google services (Mail, Calendar, Groups, etc.) Google Apps lets you install third-party apps through their Google Apps Marketplace.
https://www.google.com/enterprise/marketplace/
I'm curious if anybody is using any of these? In particular, if there are any that might help with volunteer scheduling or inventory management in a bike co-op?
Any info or shared experiences are appreciated.
Thanks,
Kris | VéloCity Bicycle Cooperative in Alexandria, VA | http://velocitycoop.org/
Kris,
I use Google apps (free) for myself, and I'm about to help another small organisation move over to it. I like it a lot for the functionality of the gmail interface, as well as integration with the google family of products. I suspend my deep suspicion of people collecting my data because it's so damn convenient. Pedallers also uses it, but only for email and calendar.
In terms of things that help with the running of a bike co-op, I can't see any advantages over other free/low priced products.
-- Jess Fishenden Pedallers' Arms, Leeds, UK http://www.pedallers-arms.org/
On 3 December 2010 14:58, Kris Andersen kris.andersen@gmail.com wrote:
Does anybody use Google Apps for their organization?
Google Apps (Education Edition) is free for non-profits under 3000 employees. We currently use it to manage email for our domain and host a public calendar for our co-op. (For more info: http://www.google.com/apps/ )
In addition to the usual Google services (Mail, Calendar, Groups, etc.) Google Apps lets you install third-party apps through their Google Apps Marketplace.
https://www.google.com/enterprise/marketplace/
I'm curious if anybody is using any of these? In particular, if there are any that might help with volunteer scheduling or inventory management in a bike co-op?
Any info or shared experiences are appreciated.
Thanks,
Kris | VéloCity Bicycle Cooperative in Alexandria, VA | http://velocitycoop.org/
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We use it extensively at SLO Bike Kitchen in San Luis Obispo, CA. Our organization is quite small, but we've developed a good amount of documentation, task/inventory/volunteer tracking documentation, all stored in Google Docs. For some things created in Illustrator or Word, you can store those files on Google docs for sharing purposes.
Main advantages for us:
- We do minimal work in the office, so being able to access the documents
from anywhere is necessary.
- We do a lot of collaboration on those docs, since there is no single
responsible person
- Google docs keeps track of revisions and changes, so you can figure out
what/how/who changed things.
Two serious problems we encountered:
- Setting up access permissions for those who do not have a Google account
is unnatural.
- Page layout for making signs and precise layout in documents is pretty bad
(when it is printed)
The calendar, we also use this for volunteer scheduling, posting hours and events. The capabilities are nice for allowing public access, embedding into web pages, etc... We wouldn't call the entire thing "perfect", but it has a really low cost of ownership with a high level of capabilities.
Brian SLO Bike Kitchen www.slobikekitchen.org
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 06:58, Kris Andersen kris.andersen@gmail.com wrote:
Does anybody use Google Apps for their organization?
Google Apps (Education Edition) is free for non-profits under 3000 employees. We currently use it to manage email for our domain and host a public calendar for our co-op. (For more info: http://www.google.com/apps/ )
In addition to the usual Google services (Mail, Calendar, Groups, etc.) Google Apps lets you install third-party apps through their Google Apps Marketplace.
https://www.google.com/enterprise/marketplace/
I'm curious if anybody is using any of these? In particular, if there are any that might help with volunteer scheduling or inventory management in a bike co-op?
Any info or shared experiences are appreciated.
Thanks,
Kris | VéloCity Bicycle Cooperative in Alexandria, VA | http://velocitycoop.org/
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