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August, 2009

Google uses billboards, we use postcards!

To get the word –excuse my pun– out, Google has started a billboard campaign for Google Apps. Google is using traditional (low tech?) marketing to entice businesses from “Going Google”. Keep Reading…

Mail delegation, another feature for the corporate world

In many large companies it is quite customary to allow a secretary access to your mailbox. Or another scenario is often that you allow a co-worker access to your mailbox during your vacation. Until today that was simply impossible with Google Mail.

Today Google announced ‘mail delegation’ as a new feature for Premier Edition users. Keep Reading…

Collaboration with Google Talk and Mail, a new Tower of Babel

Working on project with co-workers or clients that speak other languages is not a sinecure. Last time I checked, we have come a long way from the situation described in Genesis 11:1-9 “…And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech…”. Yes, I know, English is the preferred business language. Unfortunately not everybody speaks or writes it well (enough).

Google Apps can help you out in different ways. Keep Reading…

Postini MX settings and domain aliases

So you have successfully migrated your existing mail infrastructure over to Google Apps. Like so many companies you might have a number of other internet domains –typically your domain name in other TLDs– and you have added them as domain aliases.

In the (free) Standard Edition of Google Apps all your domains have identical MX records –pointers to where email should be delivered– all referring to Google’s infrastructure. Keep Reading…

Getting feedback into Google Docs

We can provide feedback in many different ways: email, response forms, meeting reports etc. However, to get an overview of received feedback and come to conclusions based on that feedback is not that simple.
In an earlier (Dutch) article on Vernieuwinginwerk.nl reader Marcel commented that forms in Google Docs spreadsheets can be very useful and they avoid a lot of bother.
Forms in Google Docs can be used for different purposes: a customer satisfaction survey on a limited scale, getting to know certain preferences from your co-workers, receive input for reports, you name it.
And as a picture means more than a thousand words, I quickly made an demo as a reaction to Marcel’s comment. Keep Reading…