The showdown in the clouds should be interesting. Google has been quietly signing up whole education departments and universities.
M Rick Welykochy wrote: > Michael Skeggs [email protected] wrote: > >> I recognise that many people in IT don't know anyone who is complaining, >> but that speaks more to the narrow circles many people mix in (me included) >> not a reflection of the real environment. >> Case in point, I am involved in a newish community group who does almost >> 100% of our coordination online. >> We now have a few members who do not have access to email, and only patchy >> access to a website. Communicating with them is hard. >> They would certainly struggle if the only channel to monitor their income >> statements was online. > > Off Topic: a friend of mine joined a community garden project > last summer. The only problem was organising who does what with > the garden and when. So the organiser opted for an online > Google spreadsheet. That was enough to throw the entire project > into chaos and it died within a month. > > Many of the people were older folk and had no idea how to get > online and access the activies roster in Google. > > A perfect example of throwing technology at a problem that does > not really need solving. We've managed to co-ordinate a bunch of > gardeners or weavers or whatever forever without technology. My > friend was floored that a simple paper-based roster "was out of > the question." > > Big sigh. > > cheers > rickw > > > -- Marghanita da Cruz Ramin Communications Pty Ltd http://ramin.com.au/ Phone:(+61)0414-869202 _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
