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why has no one just made a really easy alternative to this? sure there's things like huddle and google sites, but they're still way too difficult. I have shit
by jasonlbaptiste 17y ago
why has no one just made a really easy alternative to this? sure there's things like huddle and google sites, but they're still way too difficult. I have shit to share with people in my company and i want to do it simply without tons of bloat or difficulty. In essence:
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- officemedium 17y agohttp://www.officemedium.com http://www.officemedium.com But I might be biased...
- jasonlbaptiste 17y agovery cool. i do like it. reminds me of what we wanted to do with Publictivity. Sadly both have way too many features.
- officemedium 17y agoToo many? I don't like to sound like I'm "spamming" out my product, but I believe it's designed in such a simple manner than anything included that you aren't interested in using, sits quietly in the background.
- Barnabas 17y agoLinks are nice: http://www.publictivity.com/ http://www.publictivity.com/
- thwarted 17y agoGoogle docs is pretty much just like Sharepoint, except you don't need a massive install of Microsoft Office (read: bloat) to edit the documents. I don't see how Google docs is more difficult than Sharepoint, the interface is the same. You navigate around a list of documents, you click on one, and it spawns the editor for that document type.
- ahpeeyem 17y agoMaybe it's because with Google Docs you don't get to use Word or Excel, and to anyone who's scared of anything that's not word or Excel that's hard. Non-technical people don't seem to get to the step of generalising what they know about using computers, i.e. Word->word processor and Excel->spreadsheet, so going to something new like Google docs isn't like "oh this is an online word processor like Word" but instead go "this isn't Word OH MY GOD WHAT DO I DO?"
- thwarted 17y agoI've experienced that very limitation from people when it comes to online document editing and maintenance. However, my experience with how those kinds of people use Sharepoint is still compatible with Googledocs: create a document with Word or Excel, then upload it into shared storage where the document goes to die because they never edit or use the document again. Google docs supports this workflow, uploading a Microsoft Office document which gets converted. Now that I think about it, can you upload a document to replace the one that is currently there in GD? I'll have to test that. That would negate the I-can-only-learn-one-thing-and-that-one-thing-was-microsoft-office mentality.
- ahpeeyem 17y agoTrue, but with Google Docs the uploading step is extra; you can open files and save them right inside the file open/save dialogs in Word and Excel if Sharepoint's setup properly. If something could map say a "My Google Docs" folder under My Documents it would be the same; so you can just go into Word and open a file up for editing. Personally I'd rather just open my browser, but hey I've used several word processors as well :P
- moonpolysoft 17y agobox.net seems to be squarely targeting sharepoint users.
- jasonlbaptiste 17y agoyup: http://sites.box.net/simple/ http://sites.box.net/simple/
- gcv 17y agoWhat about network shares?
- Wiggio 17y agocheck out Wiggio (www.wiggio.com)... very simple!
- nwatson 17y agoI'd just use any Wiki that allows hierarchical divisions/namespaces (e.g. 'webs' in TWiki) and file attachments. Check out TWiki (http://twiki.org http://twiki.org) or a comparison between wikis (google >wiki comparison matrix< and I think you'll find it).
- jodrellblank 17y agoWhy has no one just made a really easy collaboration website You can hardly move on the Internet for 'simple' collaboration websites. Point to one that also integrates with Active Directory and is backed by SQL Server and hooks document libraries into Outlook and