[Digihubsadmin] Office 365?

[Stephen Hedges]

Well, I never thought I'd be saying good things about Microsoft vs. open source.

Karl and I both agreed that all the open source online document management tools we tried were just too clunky and "raw" to be useful. So we played around a bit with the Office 365 subscription of an acquaintance and yesterday I bought my own subscription.

>From what I can tell, I should be able to share a "digihubs" folder in my subscription and then invite people to edit it. I think you should be able to upload, download, edit documents online, and create new subfolders. (Not sure if you can delete, didn't try that yet.) I think you can also get email alerts when there's activity in the digihubs folder.

So today I'm going to figure out a few more things, then I'll invite: Meg and Gayle from Toledo; Chatham from Cleveland; Angela and Aaron from Columbus; and Paula and Katrina from Cincinnati. If you don't already have a Microsoft account, you'll need to create one, but they walk you through that process when you open the invite, and it's pretty painless.

If those folks think this solution will work as a place to share and collaborate on metadata, policies, pricing, etc., then I can invite more folks. If we think this won't work, I'll look for something else.

Stephen
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Angela Oneal" <aoneal at columbuslibrary.org>
> To: "Stephen Hedges" <hedgesst at oplin.org>, "digihubsadmin (digihubsadmin at lists.oplin.org)"
> <digihubsadmin at lists.oplin.org>
> Sent: Monday, September 15, 2014 4:23:21 PM
> Subject: RE: Office 365?
> 
> I use Office 365, so I would be comfortable going in that direction. I am
> flexible, though. If others would prefer something else, that is fine with
> me as well.
> 
> Thanks, Stephen, for coordinating this!
> 
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> Sent: Monday, September 15, 2014 10:19 AM
> To: digihubsadmin (digihubsadmin at lists.oplin.org)
> Subject: [Digihubsadmin] Office 365?
> 
> Good call on Friday, thanks!
> 
> I'm looking into document collaboration/sharing software, and Karl is
> installing one open-source program
> (http://www.letodms.com/module.php?modname=content&cid=3now) that looks
> pretty good, so we can test it in-house.
> 
> But if a bunch of people are already using and familiar with Office 365, that
> might be a good option, too. I'd say it's a step up from Google Drive.
> $60/user/year, and we'd probably only need it for a year, so I can swing
> that.
> 
> Anybody want to cast a vote for Office 365? or against?
> 
> Stephen
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> Stephen Hedges, Director
> Ohio Public Library Information Network (OPLIN)
> 2323 W. Fifth Ave., Suite 130, Columbus, OH 43204
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