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Posted by MadaboutDana
Jan 13, 2011 at 05:29 PM
I think it’s time to put some serious pressure on your IT department! In this day and age, it’s perfectly ridiculous to expect a department of 35 people to comment efficiently on a website without providing them with suitable tools. They must be able to see that - and if they can’t, it’s probably time to bring it to the attention of senior management (IT not providing you with the appropriate support to make your/your department’s work more efficient). Why on earth you aren’t able to adjust your own website in any case, I really don’t know (I don’t suppose they know what the acronym CMS means…?)...
Cheers,
Bill
Posted by Ken
Jan 13, 2011 at 05:45 PM
Hi Bill,
While I agree with you, in fairness I need to explain a bit more. My division is only 35 people, but I work for a large municipal government with over 10,000 employees, and IT security tends to trump many issues. I used to have a bit more freedom with software, but given the types of security issues that we face on a daily basis, I can somewhat understand their approach. I still think there is some middle ground, but getting there is not quick or easy.
—Ken
Posted by MadaboutDana
Jan 13, 2011 at 06:00 PM
Ah! Fair ‘nuff, guv, that’s certainly quite a lot of people to manage - sounds like an IT nightmare! Also sounds like you could do with your own departmental intranet, though - maybe you could blag a cheap server and set something up (a combination of a Synology DiskStation and cheap PHP/MySQL CMS should do the trick very nicely - much more on that on the Synology website, including hardware details:
http://www.synology.com/enu/products/index.php
and details of approved CMS applications:
http://www.synology.com/enu/apps/index.php)
Then you could do your own thing without bothering anybody else!
But I recognise that doesn’t exactly solve your immediate needs! You could try saving pages to Google Docs (copy and pasting, since you don’t have access to Firefox extensions such as gdocsBar) and asking people to comment there? But of course your IT department have probably barred Google Docs, as well…
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jan 13, 2011 at 06:25 PM
Given this reality, you’re probably better off printing off hard copy and working from that.
It’s really too bad you don’t have OneNote, though.
Steve
Ken wrote:
>Hi Bill,
>
>While I agree with you, in fairness I need to explain a bit more. My division
>is only 35 people, but I work for a large municipal government with over 10,000
>employees, and IT security tends to trump many issues. I used to have a bit more freedom
>with software, but given the types of security issues that we face on a daily basis, I
>can somewhat understand their approach. I still think there is some middle ground,
>but getting there is not quick or easy.
>
>—Ken
Posted by Lucas
Jan 13, 2011 at 06:29 PM
Ken wrote:
>Lucas,
>
>I had given it consideration, but as I can only use IE7 at work, I ruled it
>out.
>
Ah, I see. For what it’s worth, I think you could use Zotero with Portable Firefox running on a USB (http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable), but I’m guessing that won’t be a suitable collaborative solution.
(As for iCyte, I checked it out and registered, and it didn’t ask be to install anything as far as I could tell, but perhaps I didn’t proceed far enough…)
Lucas