Introduction

When you need Internet access on the Bard campus, you can always connect through the Bard Unsecured Network, which does not require a password. In this age of reduced privacy and stories of hacking, is the unsecured network at Bard safe to use?

In the past, we have all heard horror stories of working on an unsecured,

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Introduction

As a volunteer organization with 315 members (with at least half of our members as active volunteers), LLI takes a lot of coordination to pull off our classes, events, mailings, etc.

With many time-intensive volunteer processes to complete LLI work, the technology issues (aka volunteer time sinks) have more to do with too much information than not enough.

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Introduction

LLI Accounts are Gmail Accounts!

If you have an LLI account, such as [email protected], you are using Gmail to get messages sent to your LLI account. Of course, your LLI account also gives you access to many other Google apps, such as Drive, Meet,

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Introduction

What do you want more:

• A secure online experience (i.e., our files are kept private from prying hackers)

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• Total convenience (i.e., we just want to click to access our files)?

Sadly, we can’t have both at the same time!

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Introduction

Consumer choices are wonderful … until they are not.

Consider the lowly potato. You have so many choices in the grocery store!

• Size: a nice plump russet or a tender little fingerling?
• Variety: red, Yukon gold, sweet, purple sweet?
• Processing: baking,

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Docs for Collaboration

Google Docs (referred to here as Docs)  is free to all LLI members who have an LLI account (such as [email protected]). It is a word processing application, very similar to Microsoft Word, but you don’t have to pay for it and it resides in the Cloud so you don’t have to install it on your computer,

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Free for LLI members

Google apps are a set of applications that LLI members get to use for free when they log into Google with their lli.bard.edu accounts. This is all part of being a G Suite for Education school.

Some of these apps may be  familiar to you because you use Microsoft applications (which you must pay to use):

• Google Docs is for word processing,

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Collaboration at LLI

LLI is a collaborative organization, with participating members working behind the scenes to coordinate LLI events, policies, programs, etc. Before we had Google Suite for Education (G Suite), there was so much emailing of files back and forth among participating members to do committee work. There could be many versions of a single document,

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LLI Calendar is busy

With over 90 different events on the LLI annual calendar and numerous emails about class dates, committee meetings, special events, and other administrative functions such as membership renewals, how can you keep track of what you want to do at LLI? Here are some easy ways to find what you want.

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