[Magdalen] Private-ish repository for vestry documents?

[Scott Knitter]

Thanks. Looks like I might use Dropbox, although I want someone on the
staff to set up a Dropbox account tied to a parish email address (like
that of the parish administrator). Until then, it'll be my Dropbox
account hosting a shared folder.

I really hope and pray for some tech savvy to arrive at our parish
with newcomers. I'm not really a guru but apparently have the most
Internet know-how. Or others who also have the skills are wisely
keeping them under wraps?

On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 1:49 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com> wrote:
> At my former, fairly large parish, any member in good standing could come in
> and read the vestry minutes in the office at church - not get copies. I
> think that is the best mode.... even posted on the internet, the MS snipping
> tool can remove/copy and print it anywhere.  I don't see any problem with
> someone having to make/take a bit of an effort to read vestry minutes,
> therefore I never though it necessary to be conveniently accessible.
>
> .02-ingly
> Lynn, former vestryperson
>
> website: www.ichthysdesigns.com
>
> When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not a
> single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me."
> attributed to Erma Bombeck
> "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a talk by
> Richard Rohr
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Jay Weigel" <jay.weigel at gmail.com>
> Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2016 1:24 PM
> To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Private-ish repository for vestry documents?
>
>
>> Our gallery has an "internal communications" area on our Facebook page.
>> You
>> have to be added to it by the page manager. It works really well.
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 1:35 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> One of our wardens and our clerk want me to create an online home for
>>> Vestry minutes and related documents. Their initial idea was for me to
>>> create an unpublished page on our website, available only to those who
>>> have the URL, and I'd make the URL hard to make up. That's sort of
>>> private but of course might still be crawlable by search engines.
>>> Turns out this isn't possible anyway, because unpublished pages on the
>>> site can be seen only by the webmaster while logged in.
>>>
>>> We might pay extra for a private-access area on our site, but what are
>>> some of the best alternatives for posting internal documents so
>>> parishioners can see them but not the general public? We've
>>> experimented with Dropbox, which is one option.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Scott R. Knitter
>>> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>>>
>



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Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA