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For all of you who own a website, and struggle to keep spam away from your door, have you heard about Google Apps? We switched to it a number of months ago, have since upgraded to the $50 per user version, and now the blessed event has occurred. Now the clever little algorithms at Google keep the Spaminator at bay. Today’s treat was a wonderful addition….

JotSpot became reborn as Google Sites

This is a wonder to me, a gift from heaven. Perhaps an exageration, but trying to drive a ship with 18 souls on board that work from five different addresses has been a struggle. We use web based Customer Relationship Management software, and we have tried on several occassions to make a wiki that worked. But alas, Poor Yorick, my people were not “techie” enough to deal with logging into TWO sites in one day and the wiki died a slow death. Now light shines through yonder window because Google Sites works with the existing login they have to do for email - and the angels sing, and the Red Sea parts and voila! My people are now techie enough to edit the company blog. Ahhhhh. Enough with the bad Shakespearian quotes…..

The nut meat of the deal is this - my non-tech work force did not mesh well with a Web 2.0 concept of a wiki. Now they think this is an extension of their email. Who am I to tell them anything different. I give this 5 stars - not because it is the best wiki out there (it is NOT!) but because it make it accessible to the masses… or at least my people. Now we don’t have to email every little tidbit of trivia, now everyone has the latest price list, now everyone has access to that expense account form that they keep losing - I could go on forever. Now everyone can access the information that they need regardless of location, and I can keep the public eye out of it. Happy Happy Joy Joy!

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