Do you have spreadsheets or documents that you would like to have distributed to different web pages? Do you want to manage this document or spreadsheet centrally?
Managing and sharing tabulated data with explanatory text is a desire of many. Spreadsheet programs like Google Docs have just recently allowed collaborative spreadsheets to become popular
Where is the Data?
We all know that a lot of company data resides in spreadsheets. One option we offer is to migrate this data to Google Spreadsheet. A plug-in for WordPress allows you distribute and display this information. In this way, You a many to many relationship an be created between your spreadsheets and your articles and posts.
Fresh Data
With this system, you never have to worry about old or out of date data on your web pages. As soon as the spreadsheet is updated, all the other articles are updated just as fast. This scales far better than attaching documents to articles.
Different Roles
You can have two entirely different sets of people maintaining the articles and maintaining the spreadsheets. It all depends upon what access you want to give.
Flexibility in Sharing
Once spreadsheets have been added to Google Docs, they can be added to any WordPress blog.
To better understand Google Docs, view this video on Google Apps. It explains a great deal about how data can be maintained. It is directed towards education, but applies to any business or government.
Videos on Google Docs
Here is more information on how to share data using Google Docs
DabbleDB
Google Spreadsheet are only one of the options we offer for integrating data with your site. Another is DabbleDb. This is a distributed online database that can be linked to WordPress and can allow dynamic interaction with your data. Below are several examples
https://symmetricalcontent.dabbledb.com/page/symmetricalcontent/Txahrblm?keyword=
https://symmetricalcontent.dabbledb.com/page/symmetricalcontent/vcEghzOZ
DabbleDB for RSS
Furthermore, DabbleDB can be used to publish datasets using and RSS feed. The current predominant usage of RSS feeds is for news however, they can be used for any dataset. This way users can choose how they would like to format your data for viewing.
Displaying Graphics
All this data can be displayed and integrated into you site as graphs.
