The Kansas City region has a rich ecosystem of Google Apps partners serving a wide range of businesses, governments, schools and nonprofits from 1 to 100,000+ employees. This week we took the opportunity to all get together for the first time. It was great to see so many companies participate. These companies have moved more than 1 million people to Google Apps for Business, Government, Education and Nonprofit.
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Now you can Share your files with others directly from the Google Drive desktop app. Just right click on the file you want to share, look for Google Drive and select Share. The familiar Sharing Settings dialoge box appears given you the option to share with as many or as few people as you'd like.
Read MoreHangouts are one of our favorite features in Google Apps for Business, they allow for simultaneous video chat with up to 14 other people. You can also do much more than video chat; including: screen share; realtime collaborative notes, documents, presentations, forms, or spreadsheets; and you can also add additional applications to bring additional functionality into Hangouts. Now you can also provide desktop support via Hangouts.
Read MoreGmail will now recognize dates and times within emails and lightly underline the content; clicking on the date and time will allow you to schedule the meeting or event on your Google Calendar.
Read MoreGoogle is rolling out a new Administrator Control Panel. We'll be sharing more information, but in the mean time here's an excellent introduction from the Google Enterprise team.
Read MoreGoogle's Whitney Lemon gave an excellent presentation this morning at Sporting Park, home of the excellent Sporting Kansas City, as part of Google's Get Your Business Online event series. Whitney talked about Google Apps for Business, Government and Education/Nonprofit. Google Apps is a cloud-based productivity suite that helps you and your team connect and get work done from anywhere on any device. Google Apps provides organizations with some of the basic applications they need to run their business; ideally their online, mobile and social business!
Read MoreGmail is the core of our communications both internally and externally. Right Inbox brings some great additional features to Gmail.
Read MoreStarting tomorrow the new Gmail Compose experience will be the default for all domains. The new compose experience offers several advantages.
When you move your company to Google Apps, you're moving to a platform that is continuously improving. Many of these improvements are incremental, but others deliver entirely new functionality into your organization. Over the past week, Google has made Quickoffice Pro available, for free, to all Google Apps for Business customers.
Read MoreGmail turns 9 years old today. Google initially launched the world's most popular email service, with 425 million active users, on April 1st, 2004.
Many people thought Gmail was a prank, it offered a massive 1 GB when services like Hotmail offered 2 to 4 MB on average. Google is notorious for taking April Fools Day very seriously. Even today, Gmail for Business offers inboxes 50 times larger than the industry average.
Well, should you download Drive? As always, it depends. If we do "Download Drive for Mac or Windows" we're downloading local software that will run on that specific computer. Downloading Drive doesn't affect our web-based version, it just gives us another access point to our Drive.
Google Drive is a platform. It can run on the Web, on the desktop and on your mobile devices all at the same time.
Read More"Time is money" as the saying goes, but time is worth much more. Time is the scarcest of all resources. Most people would agree that data entry is not an effective use of their time. If you feel the same, WriteThat.name is worth a look.
Read MoreIf you have a Google Apps account, you have a Google Voice account. Google Voice is tremendously useful and much more powerful than most people realize.
Read MoreGoogle Forms let you easily create questionnaires and automatically collect responses in a spreadsheet. Google recently launched a new version, rebuilt to bring you a faster, cleaner, and more collaborative experience.
Read MoreChrome Remote Desktop allows users to remotely access another computer through Chrome browser or a Chromebook. Computers can be made available on an short-term basis for scenarios such as ad hoc remote support, or on a more long-term basis for remote access to your applications and files. All connections are fully secured.
Chrome Remote Desktop is fully cross-platform. Provide remote assistance to Windows, Mac and Linux users, or access your Windows (XP and above) and Mac (OS X 10.6 and above) desktops at any time, all from the Chrome browser on virtually any device, including Chromebooks.Read More
Umzuzu is very excited to have joined the Box team as a member of their Partner Program. Let's talk about Content Management.
The mission of Box is simple, literally. The Box team is working to make sharing, accessing and managing content ridiculously easy. We think that's a great mission. Simplicity is tremendously underrated.
Read MoreOnly need apps and not professional services? No problem. We'll have you ready to go in minutes.
