Robert McGarvey wrote a great article yesterday with 10 great reasons to use Google Docs. He even mentions me and the “Google’lize your Life” book! 1. It’s free 2. It’s easy 3. It does collaboration better 4. You don’t need the features Google Docs lacks 5. Free up IT to do higher-value work 6. What? [...]
Google fiber is the latest in the great innovations of the search engine giant. It is the batch of ultra high-speed broadband networks, which the company announced earlier this year. The project aims to deliver one gigabit-per-second fiber connections for 50,000 to 5, 00,000 people. The consumers are expected to pay a “competitive price” for the [...]
Ryan Nichols had a great post today on Computerworld where he pointed out 5 reasons why Google is more than ready to take on Microsoft in the enterprise world. He bring up many of the points I am constantly repeating when people ask me if Google Apps is a viable alternative to Google. 1. Google [...]
16 Jul, 2010
I have been looking for a good extension that allows me to compose Gmail messages without having to open my inbox. I tried GmailThis! (http://contrapants.org/blog/2005/07/gmailthis.html), but it doesn’t keep my signatures. Not cool. Then I found Gmail Compose. “Gmail Compose is used to quickly create new email messages straight from your Chrome browser. There are [...]
Google announced the general availability of the Android App Inventor today. This is great news and pushing the envelope again. Remember the old days when we first all learned about making websites with WYSIWYG editors. Now a days very few people build entire sites in HTML any more. They all use content management systems like [...]
This is a fantastic productivity saver. Google recently added not only the ability to have a rich signature, but also the ability to have different signatures for each account you have added to Gmail. I have at least 8 different accounts set up in Gmail so this will save me tons of time! I have [...]
08 Jul, 2010
There was a REALLY great article posted today on online classes about how to use Google Scholar. There are 100 links off to articles divided into the following areas.
1. Understanding Scholar
2. Explaining the Basics
3. Search Tricks
4. Helpful Links
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Colorado and Iowa has planned to offer Google Apps to public schools across the states. Once the plan is implemented, more than 3000 schools will gain access to Google Apps (Gmail, Google Sites, Calendar, Docs, Groups, and Video). As said by Google, Apps helps students in building web sites of their own, drop an email [...]
Educause published a new report today entitled “Google Wave and Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning: Impact on Higher Education” I have long believed that Google Wave was going to be huge in the classrooms, especially as we move forward and Google integrates with more tools (like social networking and the google me news that is in the [...]
“Due to recent member interest in Google Apps, particularly schools outsourcing their e-mail to Google, EDUCAUSE has collected many of the community’s questions and created a Google Apps FAQ wiki. http://www.educause.edu/wiki/Google+Apps+FAQ The Google Apps FAQ wiki includes these sections: – Financial – Legal, Privacy, and Security – Technical and Administrative – Support and Help Desk [...]