Education program staff have utilized our Google site in a couple of different ways since our early April launch. First, staff started using the shared calendar application to update conference, vacation and meeting schedules. No longer is one person responsible for maintaining the department calendar and everyone has easy access to viewing and editing the calendar at any time from home or work.
Second, we used Google docs to collect information and create discussions about our program suite office move. All documents pertaining to the "surge" move (as facilities named it) to our temporary space were uploaded to our Google site. This gave staff an opportunity to add questions and concerns to those docs, gathered in one place for everyone to see and make comments. We could also refer to the docs in our staff meetings to create further discussion and to make sure we were all "on the same page" during our office move.
Having those documents on our Google site has created a sort of "historical" reference about our move which will come in handy for our next move, in early September, to our permanent office suite.
