On Fri, 21 Oct 2011, Greg M. Johnson wrote:
..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.
It's possible to create a Google account for the Calendar using a
non-google e-mail address. You don't have to stop using AOL or hotmail
for your e-mail just because you use Google for a calendar.
The project I used this for had a mixture of high-tech developers and
low-tech teachers. We also had a small number of people who maintained
the calendar, and a larger set of "consumers". (For the most part the
divisions between those two groups were similar.) It's straightforward to
put a Google calendar into some other web page (eg. see mhvlug.org) so
that the consumers can read the calendar, and then only a few people who
know what they are doing take care of adding things.
That's what we did. It worked for the most part, but may not match
the group dynamic you are dealing with.
-Eric
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