Comments on: Google Sites at Church http://andrewconard.com/2008/02/28/google-sites-at-church/ Thoughts on faith, life and ministry... Tue, 29 May 2012 02:33:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Andrew Conard http://andrewconard.com/2008/02/28/google-sites-at-church/#comment-6427 Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:08:48 +0000 http://thoughtsofresurrection.wordpress.com/?p=557#comment-6427 Ian – Thanks for the valuable counterpoint. I much appreciate your insight and resources.

chuckinisrael – :)

mcphilbrick – Thanks for sharing your experience withGoogle Calendars. Free is a great selling point. I do not know much about obtaining a domain name, but my sense is that it is not a difficult thing. Hmm… Maybe not that easy though.

]]> By: mcphilbrick http://andrewconard.com/2008/02/28/google-sites-at-church/#comment-6422 Sat, 01 Mar 2008 01:39:19 +0000 http://thoughtsofresurrection.wordpress.com/?p=557#comment-6422 I’ve been using Google calendar for my local church’s calendar. I have it configured to send reminders 2 days prior to meetings. Various committee members have said that they appreciate receiving these reminders.

For our congregation (50 in worship), it has a major selling point — it is free. It was also easy to configure and requires very little maintenance. As a lay person with a full time job the ease of maintenace was another selling point.

Google Sites might prove beneficial for some congregations. However, it does have a prerequisite that will keep some (especially small) churches from using it — the ownership of a domain name. I’m hoping to play around in Google Sites for the school district I work for — once we obtain a domain name to use with it.

]]> By: chuckinisrael http://andrewconard.com/2008/02/28/google-sites-at-church/#comment-6419 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:44:08 +0000 http://thoughtsofresurrection.wordpress.com/?p=557#comment-6419 We have purchased and use a google search appliance for our site search….so were googled that way!

]]> By: Ian B http://andrewconard.com/2008/02/28/google-sites-at-church/#comment-6417 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 05:16:12 +0000 http://thoughtsofresurrection.wordpress.com/?p=557#comment-6417 For a counterpoint on Google Sites, there’s an interesting post over at http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_sites_the_next_sharepoint_maybe_notwhy_google_apps_could_lose_the_enterprise_market.php – the author makes some very valid (and important) points.

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