{"id":461,"date":"2006-10-31T11:52:25","date_gmt":"2006-10-31T15:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/?p=461"},"modified":"2007-04-28T13:51:09","modified_gmt":"2007-04-28T17:51:09","slug":"comment-on-office-live-collaboration-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/2006\/10\/31\/comment-on-office-live-collaboration-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Comment on Office Live Collaboration Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not sure it has much value for SBS customers. I setup a collaboration site and tried to envision our Habitat for Humanity affiliate using it. Although Office Live Collaboration looks like it has the potential to do the job, it would require a lot of customization to get board members to look at it on a regular basis. My first guess is that it would require too much customization work for the perceived benefit. I expected a bit more CRM, project tracking, and accounting features. I guess I was expecting something that looked like an integrated Salesforce.com and QuickBook Online application. Right now it looks too much like a standard Sharepoint site.<\/p>\n<p>As the Treasurer for the last couple of years I have been keenly interested in making our affiliate make better operational and strategic decisions. Charities are competing for the same funds and volunteers. Donors and volunteers are expecting a better experience for their time and money. They can make a different choice. I do not think I am stretching things too much when I compare a charity&#8217;s donors and volunteers to a small business&#8217;s customers. A charity has key performance indicators and line of business(LOB) activities that are very much like a small business. Making timely operational and strategic decisions is key to survival. With a geographically dispersed workforce this decision making process becomes more difficult. The areas of improvement I feel there is the most potential for are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Improve collaboration amongst the board of directors members.\n<ol>\n<li>Collect committee reports in one location.<\/li>\n<li>Access a common schedule for meetings and other key events.<\/li>\n<li>Keep track of committee&#8217;s monthly objectives.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Identify and report on key indicators.\n<ol>\n<li>Construction status by house\/project<\/li>\n<li>Donation status by house\/campaign<\/li>\n<li>Mortgage\/Delinquency status<\/li>\n<li>Partner family application status<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Improve operation\n<ol>\n<li>Track employee hours.<\/li>\n<li>Track expense account forms.<\/li>\n<li>LOB activities reporting and approvals.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not sure it has much value for SBS customers. I setup a collaboration site and tried to envision our Habitat for Humanity affiliate using it. Although Office Live Collaboration looks like it has the potential to do the job, it would require a lot of customization to get board members to look at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/2006\/10\/31\/comment-on-office-live-collaboration-site\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Comment on Office Live Collaboration Site&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[126,125],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonprofit","category-sbs2k-sbs2k3","tag-nonprofit","tag-sbs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4iN3d-7r","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}