INFORMATION: Google Groups Update - You can now edit your own posts!

[Secretary ExCom (Geveta)]

After a couple of comments I've heard in recent months, it on my list to explore some possible communication options o make life easier for volunteers moving forwards (Slack, voting etc.). 
ANYWAY I've gone deep in Google Groups management settings, all users are now able to:

• Edit your own posts! (super hand for updating links at the top of an initial post)
• When creating a post, you can select to; Start a discussion, Make and Announcement, OR Ask a Question. 
• Add tags! You can add a tag to your post for easy reference move forwards, like 'Budget' or 'Sustainability'. You can then search the tag for all related content for reference. 
• Owners have the abilities to move posts between Google Groups (for example, an ExCom live post can be moved to the Team Lead Google Group in its entirety). 

I'm open to suggestions for admin options and/or requests to investigate. Also happy to answer any questions. 

[communicationsfacilitator]

this is soooooo good, thank you!

[Secretary ExCom (Geveta)]

Woop! Sorry bit of trial and error my side, NOW all ExCom members can add tags to posts (please do). I've made all ExCom members Managers of each Google Group. I've also added Chair and Secretary as owners because of the officer roles thing and as back up for Secretary (let me know if this should be switched back to Managers). I think Managers can lock their own posts now too but need to check to be sure as my view is different to that of Manager.  

[Andy the Treasurer]

Thanks for all that investigation and set up.  Some useful features added.  Just one note of caution...

Whilst the Owners (currently the 3 Officers) have the ability to move threads from one Google Group to another we need to be cautious about ever moving a thread from Internal to Live I don't think they should be and if they are then not until all ExCom agree to it and someone first checks all posts on the entire thread to ensure there is nothing in them that needs to remain confidential.  Remember some threads can contain many posts over several pages and may be over a long period of time so all previous posts would need to be checked first.