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Free Webinars about Google Apps by Yours Truly

December 31, 2009

in Google Apps, Training, google docs

As the new Director of Learning at Dito, LLC I am going to leading monthly free webinars about special topics in Google Apps. If you want to learn more about the in depth features of Google Apps I encourage you to attend these webinars.

Here is the upcoming schedule and registration links:

1/15 – 11am EST – “Organizing Your Inbox with Labels and Filters”

2/15 – 4pm EST – “Creating, Managing and Publishing Shared Calendars”

3/17 – 1pm EST – “Google Docs Forms – Everything You’ve Always Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask”



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Lazy Post – Google Docs Security

October 30, 2009

in Security, google docs

Today is the second to last day of National Cyber Security Awareness Month. I know, I know, it seems to come quicker every year, right?


The Google Docs blog has a really clear and well written post about Docs Security. I recommend taking a look and sharing with others.



Does anyone else still think the term “cyber” is funny?

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Google Docs in the News – September 21, 2009

September 22, 2009

in News, google docs

Big News Story: Google Docs that you have “Published” will now appear in Google search results.  Don’t freak out, just “unpublish” Docs that you don’t wanted shared with the whole world.  Instead of marking the Docs as “published” just share them with specific people you mark as viewers or editors.

Google Docs Adds Features Including Making Many Crawlable By …
Search Engine Roundtable (blog)
Googler, Marie in the Google Docs Help forum announced a major ‘feature’ coming to Google Docs that will make your documents more discoverable in Google’s …
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Google Docs Goes Public, Will Appear in Search Results
Zikkir World (blog)
A post on the Google Docs help forum by Google employee Marie F. has announced that Google will begin to crawl and index all public Google Docs that are …
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Opinion: Google Docs vs. Microsoft Office: It’s a matter of trust
Computerworld
By Preston Gralla Computerworld – For years, Microsoft had no competition when it came to productivity suites. The vast majority of people and enterprises …
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Google Docs items to show up in search
ZDNet UK
Google plans to make all publicly published Google Docs documents, presentations and spreadsheets available for search on the web. The company announced the …
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Google Blogs Alert for: “google docs”

Google to Start Crawling Google Docs Documents | WebProNews
By Chris Crum
Google has quietly announced that Google Docs documents that are published will soon be crawlable. This means if you have published documents as web pages, or used the publish/embed option for a document, and it has been linked to on …
WebProNews – Search – http://www.webpronews.com/taxonomy/term/12/0
Google Docs Adds Features Including Making Many Crawlable By …
By admin
Googler, Marie in the Google Docs Help forum announced a major ‘feature’ coming to Google Docs that will make your documents more discoverable in Google’s.
Web Situs Network – http://websitus.net/
Speedy B » Your Google docs: Soon in search results?
By Speedy B
Your Google docs: Soon in search results? September 21, 2009. Users of Google Docs and Spreadsheets accustomed to publicly publishing their documents might want to rethink exactly how publicly available they want to them to be. …
Speedy B – http://www.speedy-b.com/
Brent Sordyl’s blog » Simple Org Charts In Google Docs
By BrentSordyl
Simple Org Charts In Google Docs. … Daily links to e-Learning and Web Technology resources. Home · About. Switcher. Home > Uncategorized > Simple Org Charts In Google Docs. Simple Org Charts In Google Docs. September 21st, 2009 …
Brent Sordyl’s Blog – http://www.sordyl.info/
Google Docs ’soon to be crawlable’
By DG
Google said that “in about two weeks, we’ll be launching a change for published Google Docs. The change’ll allow published docs that’re linked to from a public Web site to be crawled and indexed, which means they can appear in search …
D’ Technology Weblog – http://www.ditii.com/

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Google Docs in the News – September 15, 2009

September 16, 2009

in News, google docs


Big Story of the Day: Google to create a Government Cloud with Google Apps


Google to Create Government Cloud With Google Apps
eWeek
Google in 2010 will launch a government cloud, which will include Gmail, Google Docs, and other products Google hosts on its servers and provisions to …
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Macworld

Awesome Note 1.6
Macworld
Awesome Note can organize notes by folders, export and import from Google Docs, and search notes. The app also offers a quick memo option—separate from …
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Reportlinker Adds Cloud Computing: an Assessment
Reuters
… Citrix Diomede ebay Facebook Flickr Free Software Foundation General Electric Google Apps Google Docs Gmail gotomypc HP IBM Intuit Microsoft Microsoft . …
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Give Google A Piece of Your Mind – Submit Docs Ideas

September 15, 2009

Desperate for more customizable layouts or tables for your Docs?  Wishing you could easily use Google Docs for Mail Merge?  Well now is the time to let Google know what features and updates you would to see in Google Docs.

Submit Your Product Ideas to Google and vote on the other ideas that have been submitted.  [...]

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Google Docs in the News – September 14th, 2009

September 14, 2009

Big Story – Google Docs now part of Google’s “data liberation” project.  Set your Docs free!

Google unlocks data restrictions, announces Data Liberation efforts
ZDNet
The company has already liberated about half of its products – from Blogger to Gmail – and has plans to liberate Google Sites and Google Docs, …
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You can now Share Calendar and Docs with Google Group Email Addresses

August 20, 2009

From the Official Google Enterprise Blog:
“In Google Calendar, you can share a calendar with a group by navigating to ‘Share this calendar’, and then entering a group’s email address where you normally enter an individual’s. The calendar will be shared with everyone in the group, and will automatically adjust to any membership changes over time. [...]

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Quick Video Tutorials – Google Calendar Labs

July 20, 2009

Last week Google added “Labs” to Google Calendar.  Labs are experimental features of Google Apps that can expand the functionality Google Mail and Google Calendar.

The Calendar Labs include the ability add a background image to your calendar, display the next upcoming meeting, a gadget to quickly jump forward or backward to a specific date, and [...]

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