A Google employee recently blogged on using Google Sites and Docs to plan for a family Thanksgiving. While this is for their personal/family use, it is a great example of what is essentially team collaboration. Coordinating 20 people with their flights, meal preparation, and general information planning for a week on the beach is no different than what work teams need to do every day and utilizing Google Sites with Google Docs is a great way to get it done. Challenge - providing assignments to tasks - in this case, assigning meal preparation Solution - use a list page (this is a web page template) to split up the cooking assignments by using three columns - meal, food, who's in charge Challenge - arrival times and pickup from the airport Solution - integrate a google spreadsheet into a web page along with a flight status gadget (insert - more gadgets - search for flight) Challenge - keeping everyone informed as to the latest news Solution - use an announcements page (this is a web page template) and then turn on RSS feed for newsreaders and use the recent announcements gadget to post those announcements on the home page of your site Challenge - providing directions Solution - use a google maps insert showing the location - each user can then put in their starting address for custom directions |
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