On 10/21/2011 04:41 PM, Greg M. Johnson wrote:
A week or so ago, I saw some discussion here about using Google services
in a nonprofit. I am wondering if the biggest hurdle in a situation
like that is in getting folks to sign up for Google accounts, especially
in nonprofits involving elderly or non-technically inclined folks. In
one nonprofit I was in several years ago, the professional staffer but a
giant VETO on my suggestion that something happen in Google. To her,
telling folks to sign up for Google was like making them switch cable
companies. Granted, this was before the invention, let alone popularity,
of Android. In another more recent event, a bunch of technically
inclined men seemed to prefer Yahoo over Google, much to my surprise.
Just wondering to what extent people have run into this hurdle when
striding out into the non-tech world?
I think age is the biggest factor, as working with the farm project
google is pretty much assumed as the standard. The leadership team there
is more or less my age, and those decisions where made before I started
volunteering there.
You also need to make it clear that only the publishers of events need
accounts on many of these services, as the output is publicly readable.
That typically gets you down to 6 - 10 people that need accounts, so the
sell isn't so bad. That's true of anything you are going to use, be it a
commercially hosted service, or your own install cms.
-Sean
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