[Air-L] Google Docs Access help needed
Sara J. Bocciardi Bassett
sjbassett at gmail.com
Sat May 3 16:27:31 PDT 2008
Natalie-
You can't edit a google doc without a google account, but you can
create a google account without setting up a gmail account. I looked
into this a day or two ago, and it appeared as if you could create a
google account and tie it to any email address. I didn't go through
the process myself, so I can't speak to how well it works or if it is
any different than using a gmail account.
-Sara
On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Charlie Balch <charlie at balch.org> wrote:
> Natalie,
> I don't think users can edit w/o a Google account. They can look however.
> http://documents.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=44677
>
> Depending on the user sophistication, you might tell them to just create a
> Google account then have it forward to their regular Email address.
>
> Charlie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org
>
> [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Natalie Scher
> Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2008 2:07 PM
> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
>
>
> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Google Docs Access help needed
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> Help needed!!!!
>
> I have created a Google Docs spreadsheet with self-sign-up schedule
> for our organization and sent it to the mailing list of members.
> But now I realize that not all members have google accounts, and it
> seems one cannot access a google doc without having one.
>
> Is there any other options besides asking everyone to open a google account?
>
> Thank you for your help,
>
>
> Natalie
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 8:19 AM, Charlie Balch <charlie at balch.org> wrote:
> > 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
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org
> > [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Stuart Shulman
> > Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 4:33 AM
> > To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> >
> > Cc: apsa_itp at latte.harvard.edu
> > 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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