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Go go gadgets...in Google Sites
Friday, March 20, 2009
Thousands of developers have created gadgets since we first released the gadgets API four years ago, and millions of people use gadgets every week in Google Apps. Gadgets aggregate content from around the web and perform simple tasks like managing a to-do list. For developers, gadgets are easy to create with only basic HTML and JavaScript. Google Apps customers already use gadgets to add dynamic charts to Google Docs, and to embed rich media, retrieve feeds, or add other functionality in Google Sites.
Today, we're announcing three new features in Google Sites that will make gadgets more useful for Google Apps Premier Edition customers:
Start Page template:
Site owners can now use this page type to allow individual viewers to personalize specific areas of a site. Pages created with this template, like the one below, allow individuals to add and organize their own gadgets to customize the page. The site owner chooses "Start Page" in the page type menu, and then adds content that they want everyone to see to the top of the page. Each viewer can then customize the page to see their own personal gadgets.
This screenshot shows a corporate intranet for a fictitious produce company, Organic City. Everyone who visits the site will see the welcome message, important links, and company news gadgets. Joe, a farm manager, also sees three personal gadgets that he's added: last year's harvest data, the breakdown of the company's dairy products, and an organization chart. Joe gets not only general company information but also information that is important just to him every time he visits the intranet.
Private gadgets:
Until now, all gadgets had to be public, which meant anyone who knew the URL could view the source code. Now domain admins can upload gadgets to Google Apps, and only members of their domain will be able to see and add these gadgets to their Sites. You can find these gadgets in a directory with your company's domain name in the gadgets directory.
End-to-end security:
We've also added support for gadgets to match the security of the site itself. If a Google Site is encrypted, then your gadget data will be encrypted from the source code to the browser.
Developers can learn more about writing gadgets on
Google Code
. Domain administrators should visit the
Help Center
to find more information about setting up a private directory for their company.
Go gadgets!
Posted by Barnaby James, Software Engineer, Google Enterprise Team
Unlocking information, streamlining IT
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Editor's Note:
We are pleased to welcome Michael Cohn, CEO of
Cloud Sherpas
, as a
guest blogger
. Cloud Sherpas recently helped TechCFO, a Google Apps customer, build 3 types of Google Sites - a knowledge base, a customer workspace for collaboration, and a company intranet. For this project, Cloud Sherpas developed
the
Google Sites Bulk File Uploader
and worked out a transition plan to meet TechCFO's collaboration needs, while planning for mail migration down the road. Along with TechCFO's Neal Miller, Michael will speak at a webinar –
"How Google Apps Can Unlock Information, Increase Innovation, and Streamline IT,
" next Thursday, March 26.
As a Google Apps Authorized Reseller and enterprise deployment partner, most of
Cloud Sherpas'
work focuses on helping
clients
migrate legacy enterprise messaging environments – Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange, Novell GroupWise, and others – to Google Apps. These migrations can take a long time depending upon the number of users, amount of data to be migrated and complexity of the legacy systems.
When Neal Miller, a Partner at
TechCFO
, came to one of our Google Apps demos, he had a more pressing problem to address: how to help the firm's partners located across the country more easily share their expertise as CFOs to benefit all of their clients. This problem was concerning to them since the company's prime asset is the partners' financial knowledge – unlocking its potential would pay dividends to TechCFO. TechCFO's solution at the time was to upload documents to the public folders in their hosted Exchange server – but it was really difficult to search for information. The partners needed something that was simpler to search, simpler to access and provided better performance. Google Sites provided us with the tool to address their needs. Additionally, we developed the Google Sites Bulk File Uploader to help manage the migration of 100's of documents into a unique nested Google Site format.
Google Sites has proven to be a tool that TechCFO can use for multiple purposes. Since the firm needs to share information and collaborate on financial strategy and planning with its clients, we also created Sites they could easily use with people outside their firewall. Each client Site provides a secure "workspace" that is only shared with that client since they may post financial models or legal documents to it. We also built TechCFO a company intranet to share HR information, announcements of new team members and other company news.
Working with TechCFO opened my eyes to another way that companies interested in Google Apps can get started – through Google's collaboration apps. Using Google Sites, TechCFO saved thousands of dollars over other collaboration options – and the firm will save even more when it moves over other applications such as Gmail and Google Calendar. Google Apps has opened up a mountain of possibilities – though sometimes you need the help of a Sherpa to get you to the top.
I invite you to
join us on an online seminar exploring "How Google Apps Can Unlock Information, Increase Innovation, and Streamline IT,
" where Neal and I will be on hand to show you examples of what we built, and how we did so. We'll also be happy to answer your questions online.
How Google Apps Can Unlock Information, Increase Innovation, and Streamline IT
Thursday, March 26, 2009
1:00 PM ET / 10:00 AM PT / 5:00 PM GMT
Register here.
Michael Cohn, CEO of Cloud Sherpas
Cloud Sherpas (
www.CloudSherpas.com
) is a cloud computing systems integrator and application developer. As a leading Google Enterprise partner, Cloud Sherpas helps organizations leverage Google Apps and Google App Engine to dramatically reduce IT expenses. The company delivers deployment, change management, support and development services to commercial, enterprise and educational institutions seeking to adopt cloud computing. Cloud Sherpas is a Google Apps Authorized Reseller and enterprise deployment partner. The company also supports cloud computing solutions from EMC/Decho, TriCipher and other best-in-breed vendors.
Posted by
Serena Satyasai
, Google Apps Team
10 Gigs of Virtual Class (or Virtual Talent Show) for Free
Monday, March 16, 2009
In the past week, we've released some
cool new features
in Google Video for education in Google Apps, including captioning of audio tracks, and ability to upload videos up to 1GB in size for users with Google Gears-enabled browsers. We mentioned that both of these features may be useful for schools, and now we'd like to make them easier to try.
As of March 31st, we will be offering 10GB of Google Video free to every Google Education Edition domain. This will give each school the ability to stream up to 30 hours of content of anything they want - be it 30 hours of Physics 101 lectures, 30 hours of little league soccer practices or 30 hours of commencement keynotes – or a mix of those.
When we originally added Google Video to the Apps suite, we offered it for free for a trial period, but promised a change in our policy this March (right now). And here's that promised change. Now you can store 10GB of video and trade out old video for new, knowing that your current 30 hours is always available on our servers.
So start your video cameras and capture your professors (or your students) in the act; we'll provide the storage; the popcorn's up to you.
Posted by Cristin Frodella, Google Apps Education Edition Team
@everyone: We're on twitter
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Google Enterprise is now talking on twitter under the name
GoogleAtWork
.
GoogleAtWork
will share information on product updates,
webinars
, things happening with customers, media coverage for things that we offer or do, and other news. We're also using twitter to listen to things that people are saying about us and the organizations we want to serve.
The conversation is just getting started, and we're excited to already have a growing crowd of followers. We're sharing a picture of them here:
Thanks to
TwitterSheep
for this cool illustration, displaying the self-proclaimed attributes in the profiles of our followers.
"Twitter?," some may ask. It's the 140-character "
microblogging
" site
that's gained a huge fan base for both individuals and organizations – and we're glad to be joining the ranks. We think it will be a great community and home for the Google Enterprise team, and we hope that you'll follow us there. Here's how:
If you're already using Twitter, simply
click here
and choose "follow". If you're not using Twitter yet,
sign up here
– it's easy, and free – and then "follow"
GoogleAtWork
.
This blog won't change at all based on our use of twitter – except in one way: you can now see a stream of our twitter conversation on the right margin of this page (you may have to scroll down a bit).
If you have ideas or suggestions about how you'd like to see us use twitter, add them here – or better yet, follow us and enjoy the
new voice of
GoogleAtWork
.
Posted by Ellen
Petry
Leanse
, Google Enterprise Team
Google Video for business: now featuring larger videos and [insert caption here]
Monday, March 9, 2009
When we first launched Google Video for business in Google Apps, we aimed to apply Google's video technology to solving real business and education problems. Google itself, and Google Apps customers, have been using the product for everything from executive briefings to extending training events to its remote offices to sharing wacky office moments with coworkers. In fact, we've been using Google Video to save both time and money at Google, making most video production a self-serve process.
Since we launched Google Video back in September 2008, we've been listening to customers and working hard to make Google Video even better. Today, we're excited to announce two major new features are available right now on your domain:
Captions
We've added a new captioning feature which allows you to give viewers a deeper understanding of your video. Captions can help people who would not otherwise understand the audio track to follow along, especially those who speak other languages or who are deaf or hearing impaired.
You'll find details and administrative information here.
Larger Uploads
Starting today, users with Google Gears configured in their browser can upload videos of up to 1 GB in size, up from the 300 MB limit previously available. This is important to businesses and schools that need to host longer form or higher quality video. If you'd like to upload videos of this size, simply get
Google Gears
or
Google Chrome
to enable larger uploads today.
Check out these new features, and please keep the suggestions coming.
Posted by
Vinay
Siddavanahalli
and Jared King, Google Video Team
Everything you always wanted to know about keeping email safe...in the cloud
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
What if we told you that a 35 minute tutorial would teach you everything you needed about keeping your Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes, or other on-premise email system safe from spam, malware, and viruses? We hope that you'd believe us, and that you'd give our
new "Nuts to Bolts" on Google Message Security
, powered by Postini, a view.
Don't have 35 minutes? We know the feeling. The
topic overview (on the left)
lets you pinpoint the subjects that interest you most.
This tutorial is just one from a
growing library of information and resources in our Security and Archiving Learning Center.
Find a moment to come in and look around.
Posted by
Ellen Petry Leanse, Google Enterprise Team
Oscar Night for Enterprise Search
Monday, March 2, 2009
On the heels of the Oscars, we're proud to have been named the
best intranet search solution
of the year by Intranet Journal. It's been a year filled with hard work, as we've seen the release of brand new search appliance software, as well as nearly ten new innovations in our
Enterprise Labs
.
As those who tune in know, the Oscars aren't just about the movies – they're about
the fashion
. In some sense, the same holds true for the Google Search Appliance: It's not just about designing the best search experience possible. It's about being well put together.
Setting up an enterprise search solution has traditionally been an
"unattractive" prospect
: hordes of databases, ranks of whirring servers, blinking lights and backups disks, all strung together with a mass of twisting wires and cables. Not exactly suited to the red carpet.
At Google, our approach has been to pair simple and timeless
yellow attire
with the power to index
10 million documents
in a single box.
We're honored to have been recognized, and ultimately, we see this as being all about our users and customers. The feedback we get from you, the work of our partners and system integrators, the efforts of IT administrators who continue to push the envelope of the appliance and what search can do – none of our work is possible without you. You...complete us.
Here's looking at you GSA customers.
Posted by
Nitin Mangtani, Google Enterprise Team
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