Cheap Technology and the Ordinary Pastor – a Wrap-Up – Part 3

Cheap Technology and the Ordinary Pastor – a Wrap-Up – Part 3

Here’s the last installment on the technology series: An area where I will be sticking with the paid versions is Groove.  What, you don”™t know what Groove is?  You need to.  Groove is a collaboration software tool that comes in the new Office 07 suite.  I can create multiple workspaces, invite who I want to them, assign permissions and begin sharing any sort of document with whomever I want (of course, they must also own and install Groove).  If they make changes to the document, it synchronizes the doc for any who are a part of the workspace.  You can even create files on your desktop to be “Grooved” and share those files with those you want so that you don”™t have to recreate or upload files to a separate workspace.  The only problem with this is that the 64 bit version of Groove does not work with Vista and Microsoft has no plans to make it work. Go figure.  This was a major bummer for me.  For pastoral ministry this has become invaluable.  Our pastoral team collaborates with one of our members who actually puts up a copy of the bulletin each week and we all add our two cents.  I do this also with our Sunday School bulletin, PowerPoint presentations, and a vast array of documents I want to share with others.  I looked into Zoho”™s Sharepoint-like site, but it simply was not as easy to use or set up.  Groove has been a pleasure to use. What about note taking?  When Office 07 came out I became hooked to One Note.  However, I think the free...