Looking at Gsites

Have been trying to port my Tech Tools Blog to google sites to better understand what I can do with Gsites. So far the move from my WordPress Blog to Gsites has been ok.

• moving information from WordPress to Gsites is a straightforward copy and paste
• miss the flexibility of creating a Menu system in WordPress..but Gsites is more of a wiki
• both handle Youtube videos well
• easy to embed a Google Calendar into a Gsite (have not tried that with WordPress)
• a Google Document can easily be embedded in both Gsites and WordPress
• cannot embed anything else into my Gsite (Vidller or Jing screencasts)
• site changes can be subscribed to through email updates but only for owners and collaborators
• no RSS feeds in Gsites cannot imagine managing a class of Gsites without RSS feeds

I read a Lifehacker post about creating an RSS feed from Gmail labels. This would be a work around for the lack of RSS feeds.

Using a Gmail label for Gsites RSS Feeds