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Gmail for your church
I’m in the process of setting up gmail to handle our church’s emails. Google have a service called Google Apps – it’s free for non-profits – and it allows you to use Gmail on your domain. That’s nice. It means we can have ben@dundasanglican.com.au (rather than ben@gmail.com) etc etc.
There are two factors that made this option compelling for me.
1. Gmail is a great mail service… its fast, reliable, free. It has a generous amount of space (7GB per account), has a good web interface as well as POP/IMAP and all the rest. It’s a snap to create new email addresses and manage all the accounts.
2. Once you have Google Mail on your domain, you can tap into Google’s other collaborative web apps really easily. The church staff will already have accounts and the sharing settings are automatically set up. So everyone can share calendars (at cal.dundasanglican.com.au), documents and spreadsheets (at docs.dundasanglican.com.au). Looking forward to seeing what we can do with it.
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but its still beta!
p.s why on earth do i need a valid email to post a comment!
preach it, baby. google docs in the church arena is fantastic … I’m still working out whether to go google for powerpoint during church tho.
Tried using the forms feature in google docs? Superb for rego for weekends away, even for creating revision quizzes for PTC (although two weeks after I’d written one, MTC went live with their OLE. Doh.).
dundas site looks sweet. simple and classy. I particularly enjoyed that in the staff profiles yours had email, fb, twitter & a website. The subtlety of saying ‘get with it, ppl’ hehehe.