[LINK] RIP Printed Evidence of Payments

[Marghanita da Cruz]

The showdown in the clouds should be interesting.
Google has been quietly signing up whole education departments and 
universities.

M
Rick Welykochy wrote:
> Michael Skeggs mike at bystander.net wrote:
> 
>> I recognise that many people in IT don't know anyone who is complaining,
>> but that speaks more to the narrow circles many people mix in (me included)
>> not a reflection of the real environment.
>> Case in point, I am involved in a newish community group who does almost
>> 100% of our coordination online.
>> We now have a few members who do not have access to email, and only patchy
>> access to a website. Communicating with them is hard.
>> They would certainly struggle if the only channel to monitor their income
>> statements was online.
> 
> Off Topic: a friend of mine joined a community garden project
> last summer. The only problem was organising who does what with
> the garden and when. So the organiser opted for an online
> Google spreadsheet. That was enough to throw the entire project
> into chaos and it died within a month.
> 
> Many of the people were older folk and had no idea how to get
> online and access the activies roster in Google.
> 
> A perfect example of throwing technology at a problem that does
> not really need solving. We've managed to co-ordinate a bunch of
> gardeners or weavers or whatever forever without technology. My
> friend was floored that a simple paper-based roster "was out of
> the question."
> 
> Big sigh.
> 
> cheers
> rickw
> 
> 
> 


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