Monday, June 27, 2011

3 Great Uses for a Google Site

In the context of businesses, non-profits and churches, Google Sites can be a wonderful tool that are easy to use, quick to set up and perfect for sharing.  

I do NOT recommend Google Sites as a public website for any organization - with maybe the exception of a school club.  

However the following uses are ideal!
  1. Business Intranets:  Every company has documents, lists, ongoing conversations, policies and announcements that need to be communicated and a Google Site is a great way to do that.  It is especially easy if you are using Google Business Aps for your email and groupware too - because when you create the site - everyone in the organization is automatically made a member.
  2. Project Sites:  Just like SharePoint, a Google Site can be created and used as a repository for project plan, membership information, design docs and more.  Whether the project is large or small, technical or not a Google Site is a great working space to share all the information for the project team.
  3. Church or Non-Profit Committees:  Just as with the examples above, committees within churches and non-profits always have items that they are working on that are not yet ready for public consumption.  With a Google Site, you can store documents, post your agendas and minutes, track action items for your team and keep everyone informed quickly and easily.
One of the great aspects of a Google Site is that you can create it in about a minute and then probably spend less than an hour to have it be a functional site for your team.


Mary Camacho is the author of The Internet Plan. Buy the book here!

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