Cohousing-L Mailing List: RE: good coho intranet sites?

[Kathy Miller (mkathy10]

If you're looking for just a very simple way to do this, no bells &
whistles, Yahoo groups are great. You can set up your group as private,
membership by invitation only.  Once you do that, you have a central place
on the web for all your stuff, accessible by all your members.  It handles
file storage, including folders organized however you want (by committee, by
subject, etc).  It has a rudimentary database program of its own, but only
to store lists of things.  (For more complex database apps, there's nothing
stopping you from storing an Access database in the files area)  Yahoo
groups also provide an email distribution list with automatic archiving;
chat; calendar; etc.

For a more customized internal site, I hope some other communities reply.

Even if you want a more customized site in the long run, a Yahoo group is a
quick & easy place to start while you work on something fancier.  For our
needs at the time, and maybe yours, Yahoo has been fine and we didn't see a
need to reinvent the wheel.

To start a Yahoo group:  http://groups.yahoo.com/, and find the Create Your
Own Groups link.  Only takes a few minutes, and maybe an hour total to
invite all members, set up your file folders, etc.


Kathy
Eugene Downtown Cohousing
www.eugenecohousing.com  (that's our public website, not our yahoo group)