There are many, many ways to share documents with a group of people you are working with, whether they are a group made up of your local co-workers or across the region, or even with a team made up of CCE and non-CCE members.
Along with sharing, some of these options may also be a temporary backup solution for those of you who do not have a county server.
I’ve put together a chart of a few of the more popular (free) options out there, what their differences are and links to get you started using them.
To view this document, click here.
Now that I’ve shared the ‘on the cloud’ (online) options, I want to go back to the best solution for sharing documents with your association co-workers and that is through your server (if you have one). And soon all of us will have access to a server for sharing documents and backing up our data!
A Central Server Is Coming Soon!
As you may or may not have heard, our Western New York Shared Business Network (WSBN) has decided to move forward with buying a central server that will be housed at Cornell and it will support all 9 of our counties in this region. (There is quite a bit of prep work involved, so we will not actually start putting anyone on the new server until this Fall, and the process of moving all the counties over may take a few months.)
Now, let me back up because you may be ready to ask “Alright, Jenn.. what does a central server mean?” This means that our individual local files on the current servers (where our shared files are currently stored) will be moved to the new server so we can retire the outdated servers that are being used right now. For those of you in counties that don’t currently have a server, it means you will soon have a place to back up all of your files and also share files with your co-workers! (No more having to back up your files manually to a thumbdrive or other storage space… somehow I don’t think you’ll miss doing that!)