Staff Collaboration

Even though our program staff is a rather small group (8 people), we are still looking for a better way to collaborate and share program information with each other. Under our current system, we have staff who are the "gate keepers" of a rather wide and varied range of program information which includes everything from graduate school application procedures to how to plan a professional development day. Typically, documentation produced by various staff is saved into the Education Program folder on the shared network drive, stored away where it seems no one can find anything when needed. The other problem with saving files to the network is accessibility. Unless you use a PC, you're kind of shut-out. So, we needed a better way to share information with ease of accessibility.

To make a long story short, staff has adopted the idea of using a Google site for collaboration. We started by creating a Google calendar which everyone has access to and can edit. As some staff were more comfortable with technology than others, this was a good place to kind of  "break the ice" and get used to the Google interface and editing tools. As more staff become comfortable with editing the calendar, the next step will be the creation of our staff Google site. Stay tuned!