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August, 2010

More than 7 million students use Google Apps for Education

The upcoming start of the new school year offers new challenges to school administrations in our rapid changing new world: better and more open communication to parents, budgetary restrictions, students that grow up with Facebook and expect location-independent access to their information. And software vendors that have started battle against each other because they understand that the students of today will be the end users of tomorrow.

Microsoft and Google offer schools interesting solutions. But as a school where and how do you start?

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Another realtor has “Gone Google”

Another business powered by Google AppsReal estate agents really understand the advantages of Google Apps Premier Edition. It guarantees them access on the go to their email and calendar without any headaches. Besides that, they no longer have to make backups, update software or mess with calendars.

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Google Message Discovery, how to restore mail from archives

ArchivesGoogle Message Discovery is an archiving service for mail that allows you to quickly search them. Your organization get unlimited storage of all mail and attachments for a retention period of 1 to 10 years.

A case from last week made me decide to –for the first time– make a short screencast on how to restore mail from the Google/Postini archives.

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Google Apps Script: Swiss army knife of Google Apps

Swiss army knifeThe Swiss army knife is popular because of its different uses: it shears, uncorks bottles, slices and does a lot more. Google Apps also has its own Swiss army knife: Google Apps Script.

Simply great for your endless list of little things you want to automate fast without much effort.

Need an example? How about sending a ‘Google Apps tip of the day’ to pilot Apps users for a week?

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Migrating to the cloud: pilot or Big Bang?

Migrating to the cloud: pilot or Big Bang?

I recently had a discussion about the best approach for going to the cloud. Is the best approach doing a pilot or a Big Bang?

I keep repeating myself over and over: people don’t like change. Even if it turns out to be a positive experience over time.

Michael Sampson, Sharepoint specialist, summarizes this as follows: what is the biggest complaint about collaborative solutions? No one uses them!

Does doing a pilot prevent this, or not?

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