What I would like to do is use Google Apps to create folders to hold frequently accessed Information:
a. Vendor price lists
b. Sage price lists
c. White papers
The above would be in the documents section of Google Apps.
We can either:
a. Buy all fellows a Google Apps account which is $50/year
b. Have the fellows get their own and we share individually the folders
The benefit of having all the 90 Minders on Google Apps is that we can share the folder to ""everyone at the 90 Minds domain"" without having to go person by person.
The benefit of NOT having 90 Minders on Google Apps is cost. Probably 75% of the people who get an account won't use it.
This might be a ""if you build it they will come"" where we start slow with just the admin team getting Google Apps (paid) accounts and see where it progresses.
Google Drive for File Sharing:
I would also like to create a Google Drive which we can use to share out source disks for Sage 100. Basically this is the same thing as DropBox but I believe it will allow us to share the disks as read only which DropBox will not (correct me if I've missed the feature).
I'm pretty sure there is high value in sharing the source disks. People ask for this all the time. I'd like them to be able to sync the data right to their desktop but I am very afraid that with DropBox someone could sync back a virus which in turn impacts all of our members and potentially customers if a member has DropBox sync'd to a customer site.
Ideally what I see (pending a little more testing) with Google Drive is that we would maintain the core disks in Drive.
These can then be shared to a member. The member can install Drive to a customer site if they like and all the disks for an upgrade could be automatically installed. Again - same concept as DropBox but I think the read only aspect is needed as a group.