Google Apps for small business

As I keep working on gganttic (www.gganttic.com) I am more and more aware of Google Apps powers. The latest example is the use of blogger for our internal discussions.

Once I have ported all my archtectural and product managment documentation to Google Docs and shared it, I becaome to consider building our discussion threads around Google Documents. Our functional architect suggested using blog instead. So we have blogger account that non except of us insiders can read. And boy it is useful.

We dutifully tag the posts with "labels". Then it is easy to find all relevant postings using labels.

Today I discovered the Polling plugin. Create a question and 4 versions of the answer. You post in on the blog. You set the target date. One can revise one's vote at any time (i guess until the due date)

I assume that some discussions will become valuable enough to form into a document. But for the living discussions I like blogs better.