I"ve been searching through different online solutions to a need I have.
I've created an informal network of managers across the country, and we want to support each other in learning about and applying the principles in the book, "Good to Great." I'm looking for something more like a workspace than listservs can offer, and something more social and member-centric than groupware.
I think about each member working on their plan, in their own space. Perhaps each part of the plan being on a tab. Each tab would have a set of questions with check-offs, other questions with comment fields, and then documents which could be attached (the administrator would create the underlying questions and fields, which would be the same for everyone). A comments section would be at the end, so that everyoen could comment on the plan. If someone needed some help, they would e-mail the group, referencing that page with a link so that others could go directly there.
I think of it more like personal improvement than typical office work. Maybe what I'm thinking about approaches online workspaces, with social networking mixed in. Anyone have experience with these? I know there is google docs, but this just has documents. Google groups can be connected to google docs, but nothing sophisticated. Microsoft probably has some service you can pay into. Maybe Moodle?
ps- I'm afraid that what I'm talking about requires programming, hosting, using tools like Drupal, but I just don't have the ability to use tools like that. Anybody have suggestions for online tools that come closest to what I'm talking about?