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The ability to securely share is perhaps one of the most powerful aspects of Google Sheets One of the most obvious ways to present your digital job board to your staff is to project it from your office computer to a TV screen in the lunch room. Some people have hardwired the TV to their desktop and others have beamed it over using devices like a Chromecast or Apple Tv. Share with anyone you want and restrict what they can and cannot do The real beauty of using Google Sheets is that you can share it with whomever you want. Not only can you share it, you can also set the permissions to restrict what others can do. You can allow individual users or anyone with a link like I have with my job board. You can set the permissions to can view", "can comment", and "can edit". You can also make individuals "owners" of the sheet so that they can in turn share it with others. view only job board for my staff With my digital job board I have shared it with my staf...

The Digital Job board has really been a popular topic with superintendents. I have helped dozens of supers sort their digital job boards out since writing my first post about them in December. For many the cost of setting them up (~$500) is still too much of a risk especially if you don't fully understand it or worry that it won't work for you. If you are interested in testing running a job board but don't want to commit you can always use my job board as described in my post  but instead of displaying the info on a tv in the lunch room, just use it as a guide to update your chalk or white board in the room. You can share the board with your assistants and they can also use it to update the old fashioned, yet reliable, job board you have always used. The Job Board viewed on my phone can be used to update the current physical job board If it turns out that this free system works for your needs you can then upgrade to the digital display to make it complete. The only commitm...

Digital technology is slowly creeping into a golf course maintenance operation near you whether you like it or not.  As the younger more tech-savvy generation move up the ranks they bring with them new ways to use the digital technology to make their operations better. Being one of the early adopters, I have noticed a lot of good examples and a lot of bad examples of how superintendents have implemented these systems on the golf course. I want to share with you some of the lessons and tricks I have learned to make a few of the most common uses of digital planning and record keeping actually improve your operation. Digital Job Board The digital job board is a trend that has recently taken off with golf course maintenance operations. At first is was just the high end clubs that were doing this but the low budget operations quickly caught on the benefits that a digital job board can offer. At first they might seem excessive for small mom and pop operations but they are in fact even mo...

Clear pattern of disease on approaches Jan 5 2015 My approaches have always been hammered by fusarium during the cool, wet winter months. Last year I hypothesized that most of the damage caused by fusarium was a result of the mowers spreading the disease around and that we might be able to reduce this damage by using Primo in the winter. This winter I decided to try out iron and primo to try and reduce the severity of the fusarium on my approaches. As you can see from the above picture taken on Jan 5 2015, the plan appears to be workin. No other products have been applied to the approaches and traditional pesticides are never applied to the approaches except for minimal overlap from the greens applications. Recent research has shown that at putting green height a rate of 97.65kg iron sulfate/ ha every 2 weeks provided almost complete control of fusarium during the winter. Because my approaches are cut at a much higher HOC I halved this rate for my approaches and have stretched the int...