Google Groups Help Center doesn’t help
A reader asked a great question regarding Google Groups’ security:
I’ve read about google groups, and I’m confused a little.
My goal was to use google-groups as an international, quick to implement and efficient communication platform. But - although the tool really IS efficient and easy to use, I have some concerns about information security.
Google’s Privacy Policy says:
“We […]
Your group is almost ready for prime time. But before you invite your members, the access settings need to be verified:
First, click “more group info”
Click “edit” under “Access”:
Click the access settings that are appropriate for your group, then click “save”. The image below shows the access settings that I use for our meeting groups.
Next verify the email […]
Now that we’ve finished the formatting – we can build the agenda.
First, click “edit welcome message” to open the home page.
When the home page opens it looks like this:
Start by typing you agenda.
Hint: I usually type into word and paste into the Google Group.
Next, format the Agenda.
You can change the title, “Agenda” to a Heading […]
In order to make your group easy to use, you will want to organize the look and feel so that your members don’t have any opportunity to get confused.
When your group looks like this, members can see other members, files, discussions, and pages. For a meeting agenda, this isn’t necessary, so I recommend hiding everything except […]
Appearance counts. Your group’s fonts and colors can be easily changed to make your group look exactly the way you want it too.
First, click “Group settings”
On the Group Settings Tab, click “Appearance”.
Here you can select one of Google’s predefined looks by clicking “Select a different Look”
“Select” the look that you want. (I selected “Cleany McSparse”). If you […]
Once you’ve created your Google Group, you can change the group’s appearance.
Adding a picture to the Title makes it easy to identify your group.
First, click “Group settings”
On the Group Settings Tab, click “Appearance”. Here we can add a picture to the group. (Hint: make sure the dimensions of the picture are square)
Click “Change”
Click “Browse” […]
I would love to take credit for this idea .. but it was all Dan Caruso’s.
Dan said something like, “Wouldn’t it be great if we could have our meeting agenda online with links to all of the presentations?”
We’d been using Google Groups for online collaboration and we thought this tool might work for an online agenda. […]
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