Pine,
Looking a bit ahead...
It might happen that the group may wish to have Google be a cloud provider
of services to manage office business of the organization. If that happens,
the organization may wish to get a nonprofit account with Google that way
multiple people can more easily share a pool of email, an online calendar,
online storage, and check the same voicemail. Right now I think it would be
overwhelming to commit to this kind of system, and Pine setting up an
individual account works.
For organizations with 501(c)3 status, Google offers free access to its
business suite of products.
<http://www.google.com/nonprofits/>
It might happen that in 1-2 years this group would also like to manage
things through Google, for example if the organization wishes to
synchronize the offering of name@wikicascadia email addresses.
I work at the nonprofit organization Consumer Reports. Our ~600 person
organization all uses Google for email, calendars, and a lot of other
online services. Since I use gmail personally, I like how my work Google
account synchronizes with my personal one.
yours,
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 10:49 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
I have been asked more than once for contact information in association
with our user group, so I have gone ahead with creating a Google Voice
account for us: (206) 659-7420. Please feel free to distribute the number
if someone asks for contact info for the user group. It currently goes to
voicemail. In the unlikely event that we get phone calls through this
number on a frequent basis, then we can explore getting a different phone
number or answering service to take these calls.
When we get around to assigning officer positions at our next board
meeting, I will be happy to distribute the PIN number for the voicemail to
our new board chair, president, secretary, and treasurer.
Stephen, please add this number to the contact info that WMF keeps on file
for us.
Thanks!
Pine
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