Google-Sites Rocks! Easiest Project Management

Posted on October 29, 2008 by Dave J.

UPDATE (12/11/08): This active wish list is useful for seeing the limitations of Google Sites.

When Google ‘Sites’ launched earlier this year, I shrugged my shoulders.

Now I’m jumping up and down!

In just an hour or so, I’ve just created a project-management intranet using Sites, and I’m floored by how easy and useful it is!

I’ve created two issue-tracking pages, a blog/discussion, a recent activity page, and file storage.

Well, that’s all that you can do with the existing page templates, but that’s all I needed. (Of course you can just create a page from scratch, too.) The tracking/to-do lists tool is great! Organization is pretty easy, at least for the few pages I made.

Because it is part of our Google Apps account, it is easy to share this project across the company. That maybe the hardest part of Sites, which is getting others to join in and use my content and add their own.

I’ll have to throw all my basic marketing to-dos and projects on Sites next. Fun … and organized. Yay!

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  • Adam Oakley

    I set up a site the other day for a personal project and was equally surprised how user friendly it was to get started. Using it with Google Docs and Calendar makes it even more powerful. Dave, keep us up to date on any success you have getting others to contribute content to the project! Internally we have a couple people who understand and value centralized information, but I struggle with how to get buy-in from more skeptical team members.

  • Adam Oakley

    I set up a site the other day for a personal project and was equally surprised how user friendly it was to get started. Using it with Google Docs and Calendar makes it even more powerful. Dave, keep us up to date on any success you have getting others to contribute content to the project! Internally we have a couple people who understand and value centralized information, but I struggle with how to get buy-in from more skeptical team members.

  • Neil Sequeira

    It really is impressive. You can put together quite a comprehensive intranet very quickly.

  • Neil Sequeira

    It really is impressive. You can put together quite a comprehensive intranet very quickly.

  • David

    Cool… although the power of the interface/template design remains to be seen. If anyone would like, we’re running a Sites design competition over at CodeKindness to explore “just how far” the interface can be customized… http://codekindness.org/blog/google_sites_design_competition/@adam – and a really custom design will, we hope, help organizations gain that critical buy-in that’s sometimes hard to obtain with websites built in someone else’s CMS…

  • David

    Cool… although the power of the interface/template design remains to be seen. If anyone would like, we’re running a Sites design competition over at CodeKindness to explore “just how far” the interface can be customized… http://codekindness.org/blog/google_sites_design_competition/@adam – and a really custom design will, we hope, help organizations gain that critical buy-in that’s sometimes hard to obtain with websites built in someone else’s CMS…

  • Dave J.

    Adam- It’s a slow starting project, but we’ll see soon. It is the big question!David- Customization is great to make things suit the project. I see problems if I wanted to do more than I did.

  • Dave J.

    Adam- It’s a slow starting project, but we’ll see soon. It is the big question!David- Customization is great to make things suit the project. I see problems if I wanted to do more than I did.