A better way to handle league issues/proposed changes.

Changes/Issues in your league--how do you handle it?

Let me just start by saying that few things in life are absolute. Spare me the tired death and taxes axiom. I've got something else that is ABSOLUTE TRUTH. It's this-Absolute Life Truth #3- if you want a guaranteed way to waste a bunch of your time inefficiently and get frustrated, trying resolving league issues via the email route. Believe me, I've done it and it isn't fun, unless you like sifting and searching through various emails about what was said, how someone voted, etc. Not to mention, replying and forwarding and trying to make sure everyone got the same email you got which shows how a league member voted on an issue. Also, there is the problem of retrieving this info after a year or two has passed if you need to.

What to do? I have found a quick, efficient way to tidy up league votes and issues. The answer -- Google Forms - which is found in Google Docs. Not only does it save you time as commissioner, but league members get a fast way to cast their votes on various issues and see how others have voted with out having to go through email after email themselves. This is a picture of the form our league used this year to vote on some issues or proposed changes that have come up. From year to year it can be quickly accessed by anyone in our league to see how they or someone else may have voted. I can either send them the document again or they can see it posted on our "Winter Meetings" section of our league website.

So anyway, it may be something that you want to try.  Google forms can be found here.