During event planning for our last retreat, I was impressed to hear how the cooking team took a night out for a Google Spreadsheets/Gchat/AIM collaboration session online. The menu went from empty to full tummy in the span of a few hours with the contribution of the entire 5+ person team. The hybrid chat/online spreadsheet solution greatly simplified collaboration across town.
Want to make things even easier? I just read that Gmail incorporates a new group chat feature. AIM had this awhile back (I haven't seen it since, but I know that at least Pidgin has it), everyone seems to be using Gchat these days. Now we can group chat directly in Gchat, directly in Gmail. If that allows us to collaborate and fellowship online all the more...that's all the better!
Enjoy,
David
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Monday, November 19, 2007
Website Update! (version 3.2)
The Sonrise website sports a few new features in honor of Thanksgiving, or more precisely, in honor of the One to whom we give thanks! Point your browser to our website to find a few new frills (in time for the turkey grills!):
Overhauled sidebar: featuring a tabbed interface with sections for the blog feed, poll/shoutbox, calendar/events central, and picture albums feed.
Improved Ministries pages navigation: the old Ministries page tabbed interface has been replaced with a modernized interface that allows for direct page loading from external pages.
Embedded documents consistency: if you have permissions to edit documents embedded in the website, you'll notice that documents are displayed in View mode by default so that you can see the page as anyone else would (with links for editing).
Events Central: an embedded document built into the Schedule page as well as the Cal sidebar tab, for quick reference to online sign-up spreadsheets.
More details can be found here.
Enjoy, and happy Thanksgiving!
Overhauled sidebar: featuring a tabbed interface with sections for the blog feed, poll/shoutbox, calendar/events central, and picture albums feed.
Improved Ministries pages navigation: the old Ministries page tabbed interface has been replaced with a modernized interface that allows for direct page loading from external pages.
Embedded documents consistency: if you have permissions to edit documents embedded in the website, you'll notice that documents are displayed in View mode by default so that you can see the page as anyone else would (with links for editing).
Events Central: an embedded document built into the Schedule page as well as the Cal sidebar tab, for quick reference to online sign-up spreadsheets.
More details can be found here.
Enjoy, and happy Thanksgiving!
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Trouble in (Published Docs) Paradise
UPDATE: A workaround has been added to the newly launched website! Now Google docs are embedded in view-first mode, meaning that they look like normal published documents. To switch to edit mode, a link is provided at the bottom of the document. (2007-11-19)
There seems to be another Google published docs bug floating around again. If you're not able to view the various Ministries Pages while logged into your (or the sfsonrise) Google account, you're not alone. The workaround is actually to log out of Google while viewing the pages. I know that can be a pain, but we'll keep looking for a bug fix from Google...
There seems to be another Google published docs bug floating around again. If you're not able to view the various Ministries Pages while logged into your (or the sfsonrise) Google account, you're not alone. The workaround is actually to log out of Google while viewing the pages. I know that can be a pain, but we'll keep looking for a bug fix from Google...
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