Quick Video Tutorials – Google Calendar Labs

by susan.cline, July 20, 2009 at 9:16 pm | No Comments

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 much [...]

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Is Google Wave the Next Big Thing?

by matt.albert, June 2, 2009 at 5:36 pm | No Comments

For the uninitiated, Google announced last week a new communication platform called Google Wave (I recommend watching the presentation here). Google Wave, in the simplest explanation, is a real time communication tool that in many ways re-imagines email and instant messaging. As many folks have said it is ” email if it were invented today”. [...]

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The World According to Twitter

by matt.albert, March 23, 2009 at 11:02 am | No Comments

I have had more then one instance over the past month or so in which several people asked me what twitter was all about and what it all means to them. With twitter’s recent push into the main stream via an ample amount of news story, the world of tweeting is the hot subject. According [...]

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Get in the know – Google Apps Status Updates

by susan.cline, March 17, 2009 at 11:07 am | No Comments

Google has released a new Apps Status Dashboard page. “This page offers performance information for Google Apps services. Unless otherwise noted, this status information applies to consumer services as well as services for organizations using Google Apps.” If you are noticing any strange or persistant errors with your Apps you should check this dashboard page [...]

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Confused about the term “Cloud Computing”?

by susan.cline, March 11, 2009 at 11:10 am | No Comments

The new hot term on the web right now is “cloud computing”.  It has quickly replaced the phrases “information superhighway”, “cyberspace” and even “web 2.0″.  The definition that makes the most sense to me:
Cloud computing is the use of a 3rd party service to perform computing needs on a publicly accessable IP basis. Cloud computing [...]

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