What I learned about collaboration

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Posted by Paul Korm
Jun 21, 2020 at 04:38 PM

SharePoint is more for one-to-many sharing, and sites forged by corporate IT-types, and not really good for many-to-many sharing and sites made by average folks.

Teams is also, in my opinion, great in corporate environments and not designed for use outside that environment. FWIW, the files storage in Teams is a SharePoint online site collection, and as such requires some back end SharePoint management.

Posted by Ken
Jun 21, 2020 at 08:29 PM

Paul Korm wrote:
SharePoint is more for one-to-many sharing, and sites forged by
>corporate IT-types, and not really good for many-to-many sharing and
>sites made by average folks.
> >Teams is also, in my opinion, great in corporate environments and not
>designed for use outside that environment. FWIW, the files storage in
>Teams is a SharePoint online site collection, and as such requires some
>back end SharePoint management.

Yes, we are transitioning to Teams, and one of our IT instructors, who is absolutely in love with SharePoint, could not resist himself in an introductory lesson in Teams top spend way too much time on how the back end is handled by SharePoint. I suspect a large number of eyes glazed over during this part of the lesson. It was akin to getting into the details of a twin cam engine on the first day of driver’s ed.

But I would agree that within an organization, Teams has many possible benefits. But for use with the general public, it is mostly a video platform.

—Ken

Posted by JDS
Jun 22, 2020 at 12:16 AM

I am not sure if this will meet your needs, but you may want to try Tribalpages.com, which is a site dedicated to creation of family trees and allows for posting of pictures.

Posted by Ken
Jun 22, 2020 at 11:28 PM

JDS wrote:
I am not sure if this will meet your needs, but you may want to try
>Tribalpages.com, which is a site dedicated to creation of family trees
>and allows for posting of pictures.

Thanks for the recommendation. I have never hear of them.

—Ken

Posted by Magenda
Jun 23, 2020 at 11:39 PM

I logged on today because I was revisiting my long time quest for collaborative writing software.

I’ll check out your suggestions.

For your project, I would come up with just putting photos in a word or pdf document and sending them to the oldsters.

They can print them out and write the recollections or use a wp, and email t back to you.

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