Good ideas from the folks at FROG via Guy Kawasaki. I'm rethinking some of the ways my organization does things. I need to look more into google docs. and other free web applications. Any of you used google docs? What's been your experience?
Dear Friends, Normal.dotm 0 0 1 888 5066 Northern California Urban Development 42 10 6221 12.0 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false As many of you know we've been in discussion recently with Wells Fargo and Equity Residential, the proposed buyers of the former Pagemill Properties on the west side of East Palo Alto. As an East Palo Alto resident and leader I view this issue, and how Wells Fargo handles this important portfolio as a milestone event for our community and it’s residents. First, a little background (from my perspective): A few years ago over 80% of East Palo Alto's multi family housing stock was purchased piece by piece by a predator equity group, Pagemill Properties. After the purchase Pagemill began systematically dismantling our rent control ordinances and aggressively evicting working class families. The community was in shock. However, the Pagemill group went bankrupt in 2009 and lost the property to Wachovia,...
Scott from GuyFROG here...Google docs has been pretty handy but for a lot of the stuff we do, a wiki really would have been more appropriate, it's just that some of our folks had a pretty difficult time understanding how to use it. So they didn't.
ReplyDeleteThere are a number of useful wiki tools at JotSpot, also a Google aquired tool, you should check it out when it's open to new users. In the meantime, pbwiki and others work well...good luck!
thanks scott... i must confess that I'm a little behind the times on the web apps. I need to do some more research and see what could work for us.
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