New Features

January 2010 - Google Apps Desktop Features

Google Apps Desktop Allow users to install Microsoft Windows desktop access points to Google Docs, Calendar and Gmail that are pre-configured to work with accounts on your domain. These apps launch in a streamlined Google Chrome browser window. This update also allows users to set Gmail as their default email program.

Download the tools here

Google Apps - Introduction and Overview

Ten years ago your access to the best technology was at the office.  Now it's not unlikely that your home computer or device is better than anything they give you at the office.  And consumer applications such YouTube, Picasa, Blogger, Facebook and Twitter change the way you create, store and share information.  What advances have been made at work?  Have your email, word processing and collaboration applications improved at the same rate?  

Google Apps is not Google's version of what already exists.  

We're building on what works well and expanding into the future.  Companies that are growing are doing so by maximizing their employee productivity.  Ideas such as cross-functional teams, telecommuting and mobility have changed the landscape of the corporate worker.  We believe it's time their toolkits adapt with them.  We once used screwdrivers and hammers, we now use power drills and nail guns.  We once used client based email and word processing, we're now ready for the Cloud.  We're ready for Google Apps.

Google Apps Training walkthrough...

Gmail - Introduction and overview of the world's best email system

Gone are the days of 'You have exceeded your mail quota, you cannot send mail until you delete mail from your mailbox', resulting in deletion of emails that later turn out to be important.  But Gmail isn't just about more storage. Gmail also includes Google Search across all of your email, so you can find that email Nancy sent last year about the TPS report (search for "Nancy TPS").  This helps you find information much faster than sorting by sender and trying to remember subject line or the date it was sent.  And Gmail's other features – like labels, message threading and integrated text, voice and video chat – help you get more done with your time.  Gmail can take a bit of getting used to, but once you have the hang of it, you'll never look back.

Gmail Training walkthrough...

Google Apps Calendar - overiew and training

Trying to find a time when a group of co-workers are all free?  Check the box next to each co-worker's name, see each calendar appear alongside your own, and scan for the empty space.  No more guessing only to find out that people have existing conflicts. 

Google Calendar is accessible from any computer with a browser and is available from many different mobile phones, so you can manage your schedule from anywhere.

Google Apps Calendar walkthrough...

Google Apps - Introduction and overview to Docs

 (word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations)

Maybe you no longer need to pay for Microsoft Office licenses?

What sounds better?  Creating a spreadsheet, emailing it to several staff for their feedback and spending hours rebuilding the master spreadsheet, or creating your spreadsheet, sharing it as an online Google Doc and allowing staff and colleugues to contribute their edits directly to the master document without you having to reconcile their changes?  The time you save by not hassling with attachments or having to deal with multiple copies of the same file lets you get to the priorities that you never had time for before.

Google Apps Docs Training walkthrough...