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The job board that I created using google docs has  been a very useful and powerful planning and organizational tool for me. In fact, I consider the ability to plan 2 weeks in advance the best part of my job board. In a recent disicussion on twitter with Scott Dickson (@scottAllD) he asked if there was a way to translate the contents of the job board as some of his staff didn't speak very good English. I looked into it and it turns out that Google has included a translate function in Sheets! A few mintutes later I had added the functionality to my job board to translate between any 2 languages or more! This discussion reminded  me that not only is my job board a planning and organizational  tool, but it is also a powerful communication tool! The ability to translate adds so much to golf maintenance crews that are more diverse than my crew (we all speak english). Spanish anyone? how about Chinese? For those of you who use my job board I will share the formula that gives t...

A Form makes data input easy and consistent A few years ago I wrote a post about using google forms to keep data collection consistent. I was recently talking about data input and some of the issues associated with many different staff taking part in said data collection and it reminded me just how useful forms can be for a golf course operation. The key to any successful operation is monitoring what you are doing and analyzing this data to make intelligent changes. If this isn't done, all you can do is guess. Google forms allow you to easily access the portal to add data directly into a spreadsheet in a user friendly way. You don't have to find the specific cells where data needs to go and you can keep the collected data confidential. Forms can be embedded on any website or shared via email to anyone you want, no matter what device or operating system they use. In order to easily analyze your collected data it needs to be consistent. Not just in the frequency of collection in...