On 10/21/2011 07:11 PM, Eric Myers wrote:
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.
When working with non-technical non-profits, I've also found you really
need to invest in face to face training. Figuring out how tech works is
only interesting to a subset of people, so being able to walk people
through things (probably multiple times) goes a long way to helping
adoption. I've done at least half a dozen drupal training sessions with
staff / board members at the farm over the last 2 years.
-Sean
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