[Air-L] Google Docs

[Charlie Balch]

Thanks Stu,
I neglected to mention that we found Google Docs very helpful for division
planning. Historically faculty pass around a SS in various versions to
decide who is going to teach what or have lengthy meeting. We uploaded the
SS to Google Docs which makes life much easier.
Charlie

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[mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Stuart Shulman
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 4:33 AM
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Subject: Re: [Air-L] Google Docs

We used Google Docs to great effect when organizing the 14th Ward of
Pittsburgh for Obama. While PA went 54-46 Hillary, the 14th Ward went
60-40 for Obama. We had over 700 members on our team, orchestrated
daily home cooked meals for Obama staff for 2 weeks, and turned out
140 volunteers on election day to get out our vote. The Form feature
of the spreadsheet was particularly nice, but so was sharing documents
to distribute the work over a larger organizing team.

My wife was so impressed, she blogged about it:

http://duckofminerva.blogspot.com/2008/04/history-lesson-pa-08.html

Stu

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 6:34 AM, Emma Duke-Williams
<emma.dukewilliams at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Gordon Carlson <gordycarlson at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
>  >  That is true, but they still have to use some email address to join
>  >  and use Google Docs.  And these addresses are available to people
>  >  sharing documents with one another.
>
>  I think you must have set Google Docs up differently from me. I've
>  just had a look at a Doc that someone has shared with me. I can see
>  the names of those it's shared with & can send an email to them, but I
>  can't see what their email address actually is.
>  I've had a look at one that I'm owner of, and I still can't see the
>  email addresses of those I've shared it with, though clearly I needed
>  to know them in the first place.
>
>  To get back to the original question, I've used them with other staff
>  to work on conference proposals etc., and a colleague has used it with
>  his students, so that he can have access to their drafts (if they ask
>  him to) before their final coursework submission.
>
>  That said, I prefer Zoho docs, as I think that you can do more with
>  them. However, I have just had a look at one (a wiki) that I've shared
>  with others, and that is showing their full email addresses.
>
>  Re. the 18 issue ... the students that I work with are 18+, so at
>  least we're over that hurdle!
>
>  --
>  Emma Duke-Williams:
>  School of Computing/ Faculty eLearning Co-ordinator.
>  Blog: http://userweb.port.ac.uk/~duke-wie/blog/
>
>
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-- 
Stuart Shulman
Neighborhood Team Leader
Squirrel Hill - Point Breeze, PA
Obama for America
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