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Our response to your Google Docs Product Ideas
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Posted by Teresa Wu, Community Manager
(Cross posted to the
Docs Blog
)
Recently we opened our
Product Ideas page
to gather your feedback about what you’d like to see next in Google Docs. Over a two-week period, nearly 4,000 of you participated, submitting close to 2,000 ideas and casting over 50,000 votes.
Our
request for feedback
was designed to help us better prioritize the features you want most in Google Docs. We'll be sure to let you know as we roll out new features based on your valuable input. Here are just a few of the top ideas that we’re prioritizing:
Add better header and footer functionality
Make Google Docs available offline
Create vertical merge in spreadsheets
There were many other great ideas - from making Google Docs available as attachments in Gmail to allowing the use of Google Fonts across all Google Docs tools. While we can’t get started on these requests just yet, we’ll be sure to keep them in mind for future improvements.
Thanks to all who participated in our Product Ideas page! We enjoyed reading your product suggestions and look forward to sharing our progress as we move forward with the your ideas.
Share your docs on the go with the improved Google Docs for mobile
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Posted by: Hossein Attar, Software Engineer
(Cross-posted to the
Mobile blog
and
Docs Blog
)
Google Docs is about collaboration, but as many of us know, others often rely on us even when we’re nowhere near a computer. That’s why we’re excited to bring the features you need to your tablet and mobile device’s browser. Today, we've updated the look of Google Docs for mobile browsers and added the ability to sort, narrow, and share multiple docs in your mobile docs list.
To get started, go to
docs.google.com
from your
supported device
’s browser. Press
Sort
to organize the list of docs visible in the mobile browser, or press
Narrow by
to specify the subset of docs you’d like to see.
To share from your mobile docs list, select one or more documents, press the Share button, and select
Share
,
Get the link to share
for public or unlisted docs, or
Email as attachment
. Sharing a doc in your mobile browser
works the same way
as it does on the desktop.
We’re committed to improving the experience of accessing your docs from your mobile device. We’d love to hear what you think is working and what isn’t in our
support forums
as well as in the comments of this post.
Live Webinar: Collaborating with Clients and Partners in the Cloud - Imagination’s story
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Posted by Seth Engler, EMEA Product Marketing Manager, Google Apps
Imagination is a global communications agency whose roots lie in non-traditional, live, experience marketing. Headquartered in London, Imagination has fourteen offices in nine countries, employing around 550 permanent staff worldwide and a further 450 freelance or contract-based staff.
Imagination has grown into a globally distributed organisation and existing messaging and calendar systems were unable to support its needs, in terms of scale, and collaborative and mobile working.
In November 2009, Imagination selected Google Apps to provide not just a replacement for its existing on-premise email and calendaring solution, but also additional tools to support collaboration across the organisation. The agency is now in the second phase of this deployment, rolling out Google Docs to provide real-time collaboration on documents. To date, approximately 400 of its employees are actively using Google Docs.
On 13 July, Simon King, EMEA Operations Director at Imagination will be joining us for a live webinar to provide insight into how Imagination is using Google Apps to collaborate more effectively across global teams.
Simon comments, “Google Apps for Business has helped Imagination improve the accessibility of information distributed globally between team members to maximise its effectiveness, enabling it to: strengthen relationships with current and future clients, deepen engagement amongst employees and bring more value for clients and partners.”
This live webinar will be hosted by Angela Ashenden, who is a Principal Analyst at MWD Advisors and leads their collaboration practice.
What
: Live customer webinar with Imagination
When
: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 at 14:00 BST (GMT+1)
Who
: Angela Ashenden, Principal Analyst, MWD Advisors; Simon King, EMEA Operations Director, Imagination; Matt McNeill, Google Enterprise.
Register Now!
Going Google at Gartner: 2011 Security and Risk Management Summit
Friday, July 1, 2011
Posted by Adam Swidler, Google Apps Security Team
Last week the Google Enterprise Team participated in the
Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit in Washington, D.C
. We met CIO’s and IT leaders from all types of organizations to discuss the latest trends in information security, business continuity, and risk management.
On Monday we kicked off the showroom opening with a session entitled
Why Your Data is More Secure in Google’s Cloud
, which gave attendees a glimpse into Google's policies surrounding privacy, security and infrastructure management. The session also covered how Google Apps and Postini Services leverage Google’s custom-built architecture to help deliver cloud-based products with
better reliability than on-premise systems
.
Later in the day we were joined by our customers, Chet Loveland, CISO from MeadWestvaco, Edward Krupka, CIO from Burris Logistics and Peter Tiemeyer, VP of IT from RR Donnelley, as part of an interactive panel discussion about Google Apps, why they switched and the positive results they've seen in their businesses.
We'd like to thank everyone who stopped by our booth to learn more about Google Apps for Business & Postini Services, or to simply say "hello" to the Google staff. It was great meeting you, until next year!
A booth visitor checking out our
Data Center Video Tour
.
Preview the new look of Google Apps
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Posted by Simon Smith, Google Apps User Experience lead
Google Apps, along with all of Google, will get a new look over the course of the summer to make the user interface more
focused, elastic and effortless to use
. We continuously improve and seamlessly update our products (there were over 125 new features added to Google Apps last year) and hope that these user interface updates will make features easier to find when you need them and hide them when you don't. Our goal is to give you the best possible experience across all of our apps on all of your devices.
Just like you, we rely on Google Apps every day and we know that change can take a little while to get used to. So we want to give you a heads-up before the new look becomes the default, and we’d like you to share your
feedback
along the way. These visual improvements will follow our standard
Google Apps release process
, with organizations on the Rapid Release track gaining access to the updates first, followed later by organizations on the Scheduled Release track. The first visual updates will be in Gmail and Calendar, and to start they will be
available on an opt-in/opt-out basis
, so you can continue to use the old interface and preview the changes before they become the default later this year. When you do give it a try, we hope you enjoy a cleaner, more modern look.
On the
whatsnew.googleapps.com
site, you’ll find instructions on how to
access the latest designs for Gmail and Calendar
. We’ll keep this site up-to-date with the latest information about the new look as well as a feedback form and other resources for Google Apps administrators and users.
500 reasons to consider Google Apps
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Posted by Shan Sinha, Google Apps Product Manager
Monday we shared
some thoughts
on why you might consider
going Google
. Since some of you asked for more, we invited our customers and partners to help us. After all, who knows the reasons better than they do?
We were humbled by the speed and thoughtfulness with which hundreds of people responded. Within 24 hours, we received more than 500 reasons to consider Google Apps. Thank you!
Just for fun, we put all the answers into a word cloud to offer a glimpse at what’s most important to our customers. We were pleased to see alignment with the four categories we shared Monday: pure and proven cloud, designed for teams, productive anywhere, and simple and affordable. If you’re interested,
you can see the full list of responses here
.
Word cloud based on over 500 reasons provided by our customers and partners
.
Over the course of the coming weeks we hope to share as many of these reasons as possible in a more digestible way. Feel free to share additional thoughts by completing
this form
.
Thanks again for all the kind words!
Google Earth API and StrataLogica: Changing Education
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
(Cross-posted on the
Lat Long Blog
)
Editors note:
The Google team encounters fun and new ways of using the
Google Earth and Maps API
. Here’s an example of how a century old educational map and globe publishing company realized more students wanted to learn online and transformed their teaching methods to include a program built on the Google Earth API. Don Rescigno, from Herff Jones | Nystrom, explains how students and teachers benefit from technology in the classroom with StrataLogica.
With today's technology enabling information to travel at a much more rapid rate than in the past, students feel more advanced than what many of us can remember from our own days in school. Elementary school students use a school computer, manage multiple usernames and passwords, work with spreadsheets, develop their own blogs and websites, and more. They’re tech savvy and they’re connected.
The challenge for educators is to use tools and resources that take advantage of students' advanced technological skills. Combining educational content with technology like the
Google Earth API
gave us the opportunity to foster a new and immersive experience that changes the way students see our world.
StrataLogica—combined with the
Google Earth API
—provides students with powerful tools to visualize and comprehend the ways in which geography has impacted events, politics and populations throughout human history. Students have the ability to see current events, taking place around the world, from their classroom.
Using a computer or interactive whiteboard, students uncover layers of educational content and can then drill down to
Google Earth
’s satellite imagery, see what’s actually there, and even use historical imagery to compare then and now. Recently, I had to play the role of a teacher when one of my children overheard a CNN report on Japan and asked, “Dad, what made the earthquake and tsunami?” The ability to access and interact with so many resources—aerial imagery of the earthquake, videos, and photos posted by Japanese citizens, local news stories—allowed me to teach him about the Earth’s processes and their impact. It helped to create a better understanding beyond the news story. It fostered critical thinking and a global perspective.
Like so many with children, I want to see students learning in a new way that
inspires them. It’s important for our future generation to understand how we are all connected — to think
globally and comprehend world impact. We want them to truly become global
citizens. StrataLogica and the
Google Earth API
are helping change the way students see the world; they can “fly” to any location in a matter of seconds, zoom in to imagery and see street views of historical sites that they may never have an opportunity to visit, embed videos and photos, and experience their own virtual field trips.
If you’re an educator interested in teaching geography, history, earth science and
more, visit
stratalogica.com
to learn more.
Posted by Natasha Wyatt, Google Earth and Maps Enterprise Team
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