Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Management Software?

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

Google Sites is a wiki that is WYSIWYG. Our least technologically friendly 
residents love it. 

For record keeping and information storage it can't be beat. We keep all our 
facilities information in it. Fabulously easy to use and organize. I put up a 
demo site a few years ago. You can store attachments, etc.

https://sites.google.com/site/wikifacilitiesdemo/

It's worth setting up a site of you own to see what it can do. So far, this has 
been our most successful venture into record keeping software. 

We use YahooGroups extensively BUT first they decided to delete all the 
attachments off out 3,000+ messages and then lately, have begin redesiging 
things so you never know from one day to the next if anything works. Or how it 
works. 

Yesterday someone reported that they have started requiring you to set up an 
email account to register for groups. I haven't checked that out yet but if so, 
it will be a nightmare. I moderate too many groups to spend  time explaining 
that to people-- or apologizing for it.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
http://www.takomavillage.org