Viewing Attachments Easier With Google Docs

You may have noticed that viewing attachments is easier now that we use Google. We no longer have to worry about not having the same MS Word version or an inability to open or create PDFs.

Use Google Docs to Create PDF Files

You can also use Google Docs to create PDFs: just log into your E-mail, click DOCUMENTS, click UPLOAD, then download them as a PDF or whatever other format you desire.

Teach your old docs new tricks with
Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office

Millions of businesses are experiencing radical productivity gains with web-powered tools, and today Google Apps collaboration is ready for every employee. We’re bringing multi-person, simultaneous editing to the Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint applications that coworkers may still need from time to time. More people will be able to achieve a 100% web future entirely in Google Docs after learning the benefits of web-powered collaboration within traditional software.

See http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/02/teach-your-old-docs-new-tricks-with.html

FORRESTER CONSULTING

Measuring the Total Economic Impact of Google Apps

Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 7:00 AM

In May 2010, Google commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and expected return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by adopting Google Apps after having managed a traditional on-premise messaging and collaboration environment. Google Apps is a cloud-based messaging and collaboration platform that includes mail, calendaring, IM, as well as Web-based collaborative documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and sites. The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework and analysis to evaluate the potential financial impact of switching from legacy email and productivity solutions to Google Apps.

CLICK HERE to see entire report.

COMPUTERWORLD

Google Rolls Out Apps for Government

By Nancy Gohring

July 26, 2010 03:04 PM ET

IDG News Service -- Google on Monday unveiled a new version of Google Apps designed to meet the rigorous security needs of U.S. government agencies.

Google Apps for Government includes Gmail, Talk, Groups, Calendar, Docs, Sites, Video and Postini. The service costs the same as Google's existing Premier Edition offering: $50 per user per year.

Data in the apps will be stored only in the U.S., and servers that support the offering are segregated from those used by nongovernmental customers, Google said.

The service meets requirements for data security laid out in the Federal Information Security Management Act, so it can be used by agencies that are required to comply with the act.

See entire article http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9179692/Google_rolls_out_Apps_for_Government_

Email Overload? Try Priority Inbox

Monday, August 30, 2010 | 8:40 PM

Posted by Doug Aberdeen, Software Engineer

Watch the VIDEO

People tell us all the time that they’re getting more and more mail and often feel overwhelmed by it all. We know what you mean—here at Google we run on email. Our inboxes are slammed with hundreds, sometimes thousands of messages a day—mail from colleagues, from lists, about appointments and automated mail that’s often not important. It’s time-consuming to figure out what needs to be read and what needs a reply. Today, we’re happy to introduce Priority Inbox (in beta)—an experimental new way of taking on information overload in Gmail. 

Gmail has always been pretty good at filtering junk mail into the “spam” folder. But today, in addition to spam, people get a lot of mail that isn't outright junk but isn't very important—bologna, or “bacn.” So we've evolved Gmail's filter to address this problem and extended it to not only classify outright spam, but also to help users separate this "bologna" from the important stuff. In a way, Priority Inbox is like your personal assistant, helping you focus on the messages that matter without requiring you to set up complex rules.

Priority Inbox splits your inbox into three sections: “Important and unread,” “Starred” and “Everything else”:

See full blog post http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/email-overload-try-priority-inbox.html

Learn About Google Docs

Wednesday, September 08, 2010

Labels: Google Apps Blog

Watch the VIDEO http://www.youtube.com/docs

Google Docs is more than just creating online documents, spreadsheets and presentations. With Google Docs, you can access your files from anywhere, share them with the people you choose, and work together in real time.

To help those of you just getting started with Google Docs we have created a new series of videos. These videos give a high level overview and steps to get started. And since each video is focused on one feature, its easy to only learn about the ones that matter most to you:

Document list
Sharing
Collaboration
Documents
Spreadsheets
Presentations
Forms
Drawings

In addition, we just launched our own YouTube channel at youtube.com/docs. You can view all of the videos above in the custom video gadget at the top of the channel, which will help you keep track of which videos you've already watched.

Full blog post http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/09/learn-about-google-docs.html

More Google Applications Coming for Google Apps Customers

Thursday, May 06, 2010 at 12:00 PM

9 of the top 20 requests from Google Apps customers are for their accounts to work with more services from Google, not just for the core suite of messaging and collaboration applications. Later this year we’ll dramatically accelerate customer access to innovation, and give users the convenience of using any Google service allowed by their administrator from a single account affiliated with their organization.

For example, coworkers will be able to publish their organization’s blog on Blogger, share project images with Picasa Web Albums, track industry news in Google Reader, advertise online with AdWords and much more, all without switching back and forth between multiple accounts. While these additional applications won’t initially be covered by the core suite’s support and service level agreement, this change will open up the spectrum of Google’s functionality to businesses, schools and organizations using Google Apps and we’ll evaluate future support options.

We intend to have all Standard, Premier and Education Edition customers moved to the new infrastructure that enables this change in the fall, and customers who would like more control over the timing of this change will be able to make the switch voluntarily during the summer.

http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/05/more-google-applications-coming-for.html

Back to School with Google Forms

Friday, September 10, 2010

Labels: Google Apps Blog