Shelter: Google Apps New Feature—Google Sites
Posted on May 4, 2008
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Google recently added a new feature to Google Apps, simply called “Sites,” that showed up on the dashboard with little fanfare. The stated purpose of Sites is to provide easy-to-use collaboration tools for people within your organization. It lets you set up customized, editable pages where you can set up messages, to-do lists, file storage, simple lists, and other such areas. You can even import data from Google Docs and Google Calendar.
Combined with Google Calendar, makes for a pretty good project management system. I have been using Basecamp from 43 signals to handle my project management, but after experimenting with Sites for about two weeks, I think I’m about to cancel that account. I like it that much. Sites lets me easily access all of the information about a project in one simple location.
Pros
- Easily organized and customizable to bring in a diverse amount of content
- Simple WYSIWYG editing to pages
- Able to share access to Sites with people outside your domain
- FREE
Cons
- The Organization scheme is a simple tree-hierarchy system, much like the one your computer uses. It offers the ability to tag pages, but I don’t see anyway to display the tags in order to use them for navigation.
- In addition, it appears they did away with the GooglePages aspect that had been incorporated into Google Apps.
- As far as I can tell, it’s ONLY available within Google Apps (which is free if you already own your own domain)
Still, overall I’m very pleased with the application, and–as I said–I’ve been using it with great results about two weeks now. It’s definitely worth looking into.
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