Google Doc Blunders

So far it has been a week since the new site has been implemented. The docs that I had moved over from the old wiki along with the new documents that I have collaborated with my close co-workers as in the high swing of things. The issue however is that because our company is split; one crew is located in Milpitas and the other is Los Gatos, the motivation to use this tools is disconnected. Because I have learned how useful these tools are and widely use them myself, my colleagues are on the same page. At the home office in Los Gatos, people are so used to the old way of doing things that they are close minded in using a new tool.

During our weekly production meeting, I presented the fact that we at Milpitas are using the Google Docs and Google Sites resources quite often. It was helping our team be organized with training contractors, creating new procedure documents, and organizing other resources so that they are easily accessible. The argument from Los Gatos was that there was a learning curve in which they had to overcome. They did not like the idea of online collaboration because they thought it might cause confusion to who was doing what. They would like to contour using e-mail as a way of collaboration.

I have found one very valid point thus far; it's easy to implement new technology, but it is hard to get people to use it.