Friday, July 9, 2010

Google Geek - Using Google in China


My name is Ron Hall.
I live at the Funny Farm.


Been a while - almost 3 months. So what adventures have I been on .......

Family trip to China with friends. We adopted a baby girl from China about 13 years ago, the group we went to China with has become like a second family. We pledged to the authorities we adopted through in China (and to ourselves) to keep China in the girls upbringing. This year, after much planning (over a year) we went back (with another couple from our group and their daughter) to tour China for almost 4 weeks, and to revisit the orphanage.

So having morphed into the Google Geek since our first trip (our daughters are older than Google), I set up a website (Google Site) - Trip journal template to track our trip.

http://sites.google.com/site/ourchinatrip2010/

The site uses many Google offerings - integrating them smoothly, many of them set up when I chose the template. We "collaborated" on the site content - 3 owners from various locations.

Set up was sweet, worked fine during organization/lead up to trip, once we landed in China -

No access.

However, where there is a will there is a way. Stay tuned for more...