Google+ AdWords Social Extensions
Google’s early gaffe of not adequately addressing the demand for brand pages for Google+ has quietly given way to several new business-oriented Google+ features for in-house marketers to utilize. Brand pages, social extensions and a trusted verification process are all features in-house marketers should immediately engage with to increase their Google+ counts and brand profiles.
Survey on Cloud Computing in 2011
Article written by Rick Blaisdell. Here we are, at that time of the year when we look back and analyze how things went, decide what should be improved and hoping for the best in the following year. Looking back to 2011, from a professional perspective, I find it easy to say that this was a [...]
Gmail vs. Outlook: The Real Question is Cost
How do you compare Gmail and Outlook? In some surveys, Gmail trounced Outlook with a whopping 70% of the vote. Outlook had 19% while 11% of voters declared the two email solutions equal. Whatever your preference, let’s compare the two in terms of cost.
Roche Agrees to Migrate 90,000 Employees to Google Apps
Health care and pharmaceutical company Roche Group will standardize its email and calendaring system on Google Apps for about 90,000 employees worldwide, the companies announced on Thursday. Roche has had two different email and calendaring platforms for the past two and a half years, a situation that has created “interoperability issues” that have harmed collaboration, [...]
Install Spotify on Linux (Ubuntu or Debian)
This is a preview build of Spotify for Linux. As a preview release this version is still unsupported, but we’re running it ourselves and will try to make sure it keeps pace with its Mac and Windows siblings, there are issues regarding decoding of local music on the Linux platform so we haven’t included support [...]
Why Your Business Needs a Mobile Website Right Now
First, the good news: If you have a website, then you have a site that can be accessed by any mobile device with a browser. Now, the bad: Chances are, that site looks pretty terrible on a mobile device. If you’re worried about this, you’re not alone. Just as companies realized, circa 1996, that they [...]
More options for your Gmail
We are releasing several new inbox styles to help you manage your mail. You can now choose from the following: – Classic – the default inbox style with messages ordered chronologically – Priority Inbox – important and unread messages appear at the top, then starred messages, then everything else – Important first – important mail [...]
Top ten reasons why customers trust Google Apps with their business data
Over three million businesses have moved to Google Apps, and several factors have driven this transition. While improved productivity and cost savings have long been at the top of the list, more and more customers are choosing Apps for its security and reliability benefits. Our pure and proven cloud is designed to protect our users’ [...]
Tool to help you schedule meetings: Tungle.me
Calendars Tungle syncs with your existing calendar. Supported calendars include: Outlook Google Calendar Entourage MobileMe (beta) Lotus Notes BlackBerry Windows Live Yahoo! Plancast TripIt Facebook
Free Web Conference Tool: AnyMeeting
The beta version of AnyMeeting was originally launched in October 2009, under the name Freebinar. Since then, we have been busy gathering feedback from our growing user base in order to help us improve the AnyMeeting web conferencing experience.
Offline Mode: Gmail, Calendar and Docs without an internet connection
Offline access to Gmail, Calendar and Docs has recently been made available to Google Apps domains Gmail: Gmail Offline is a Chrome Web Store app based on the Gmail web app for tablets. Calendar: When offline, you can view events and RSVP to appointments. Docs: You can view documents and spreadsheets offline.
Google Contacts Improvement
Organizing your Gmail contacts into groups can save you time when you’re writing messages to multiple people at once. For example, if you create a “Family” group, instead of addressing an email to your mom, dad, sister and brother, you can just start typing “Family” and Gmail will complete the rest. Today we’re making two improvements to [...]
New Features in MailChimp
New Features Added v6.3 is now live across all MailChimp accounts. – 21 more beautiful new email templates (9 of which are super for non-profits) – Email Beamer: Send MailChimp campaigns from your mobile device or any email app (like Outlook, Gmail, etc) via private email address that we give each of your lists. – [...]
Adobe Acquires Typekit
Easy Cloud Solutions uses Typekit to render fonts on some of our in-house custom themes. Here is a note from their CEO– Adobe’s CTO Kevin Lynch recently took the stage at their annual MAX conference and explained the company’s Creative Cloud strategy. Part of that announcement is very big news for us: Typekit has been [...]
Google+ Now Available for Google Apps
Google Apps administrators can manually turn on Google+ for their organization. Once Google+ is turned on, users will need to sign up at google.com/+ to get started. For customers who use Google Apps for Business or the free version of Google Apps and who have chosen to automatically enable new services, Google+ will automatically become [...]
Security Whitepaper 2011: Google Apps Addresses Cloud Security Concerns
Everyone’s main concern with cloud computing is security. Google addresses security concerns through this independent security whitepaper. To read, download whitepaper.
New Feature: Adding Unbilled Time on a Freshbooks Invoice
Do you log hours in FreshBooks and then turn them into an invoice (or want to start)? Now you can do it in less steps! Add un-billed time directly to any invoice.
Free voice calls feature added to Google+ Hangouts video
Today, it began offering free voice calls in the United States and Canada from inside its Google+ Hangouts video conference service. Now, Google+ users can dial anyone in those two countries and have them join a Hangout, even if they’re not online. Even though Oikarinen posted his note publically, Google isn’t making the service easy [...]
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