Team Communication

[Rachel Lim]

Originally Posted by penguin4130

1) What does your team use for communication?

2) How does it work for your team?

Google Groups for emails, Sites for an internal site (links to event information, signups, etc.), Docs/Sheets for collecting data or any collaborative work, and Forms for voting that happens outside meetings or to collect responses.

It works pretty well. I wouldn't consider any of them the best available product in their area (e.g. the lack of formatting options in Docs is difficult after being used to Word), but the ease to link all of them is great. In generally they're pretty easy to figure out, many people are already familiar with them, and the ability to work on the same document at the same time is great. Groups is nothing special, but it's an easy way to set up an email group. There can be some minor issues if you don't use a gmail account, but since most of our team does, in general it's okay.

They're also all free, which is a huge plus.

Originally Posted by penguin4130

Our team has trouble getting people to reply to emails.

How do you get your team to always reply, especially in the "Off-season"?

At some point we assume not everyone does. It's almost impossible to get a reply from everyone. We try to set a deadline and then just go with whatever responses we have at that point. In some cases, we'll directly email whoever it is that we need an answer from, but most of the time, it's "if you don't respond, your opinion doesn't get counted."