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I’ve been waiting for a while now to see what Google was going to do with their acquisition of JotSpot, the collaborative wiki site that a number of non-profit organizations I’m involved in has used to organize our internal information. In my opinion, the long wait was a big risk to take on Google’s part…I used to send people to JotSpot all the time. when Google acquired it and stopped accepting new accounts, I still sent people there, saying “I’m sure it will reopen soon, it’s worth it.” Eventually I stopped sending people there at all, and encouraged them to use other tools or to go to the trouble to set up their own intranet with software like Mediawiki, the tool that powers Wikipedia.

Well, as of today, I’m pretty sure I know where to send people for creating free, powerful internal websites: Google Sites, the new incarnation of what was JotSpot.

According to them, “Google Sites, a new offering from Google Apps, makes creating a team site as easy as editing a document. Use Google Sites to centralize all types of information — from videos to presentations — and share your site with just a few people, your entire organization, or the world.” You can read more about the features here. I suppose the part I’m most excited about is bringing the power of a “wiki” to the masses. It’s been an indispensible tool for our company and for the other organizations with which I’ve used one, but they tend to be difficult to setup and configure. Under the Google brand, I know that this will be a great tool, especially if Google has applied their usual special touches to the interface design.

If you’ve had a chance to try it out, let us know what you think. And of course, if you need something more customized than you can get with Google Sites, or if you need some guidance getting your organization started with it, please contact Summersault we’ll be happy to put together a solution for you.

This entry was posted on Thursday, February 28th, 2008 at 2:50 pm and is filed under Website Design, Project Management, Small Business, Internet / Networking. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.