Google Drive arrives with a bang. It has been a full five years since we first heard claims of its imminent arrival. In all fairness, those early claims in 07 and 09 were not published by Google, but by hackers who were snooping around Google’s sites and finding sign-up pages for a service code-named “Platypus”.Read… Read more »
I know I’m going to get a lot of flack for this post. I’m sorry, I just can’t sit by watch companies throw away hundreds, or even thousands of dollars every month. I just received an announcement for a webinar on ‘SharePoint Disaster Recovery’ (DR). Forgive me, but Isn’t that an oxymoron? Google Sites, whichRead… Read more »
It seems like every month there’s a new social network. Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Foursquare, Ping.fm, MySpace and countless blogs. No sooner does one fall off the radar, such as MySpace, than another shows up, like Pinterest! Then there are the vertical social networks such as GovLoop here in DC. We are so awash inRead… Read more »
One of the more potent applications in both Office 365 and Google Apps is their intranet application. Microsoft’s offers TeamSite ─ hosted SharePoint; and Google’s, typical of their imaginative naming conventions ─ “Sites”. These apps differ fundamentally from standard web development environments in two ways. 1) In addition to text and graphics, SharePoint and SitesRead… Read more »
Microsoft Office 365 vs. Google Apps for Business Cloud Showdown – Part 2 n Part 1 of this series,Microsoft Office 365 vs. Google Apps for Business Cloud Showdown I focused our discussion on the differences between Outlook and OWA vs. Gmail. This week, we’re going to focus on the office app offerings of these twoRead… Read more »
Businesses are moving to the cloud at exponential rates; yet all the comparative reviews of the two key players, Microsoft and Google, that I’ve seen have only scratched the surface. In this series, I’m going to dive deeper into each product, highlighting the relative strengths and weaknesses in an attempt to provide a definitive answerRead… Read more »
If you’re not inundated with email, you obviously don’t own a computer. Distinguishing what needs to be acted upon immediately from what is interesting, but can be read later, from what should be deleted can be overwhelming. Most of us have been wrestling with this for some time. If, like me you have become aRead… Read more »
People hate change – it’s hard-wired into our lizard brains. Change is unpredictable, potentially life threatening. Which explains why you’re afraid to try Google Apps. You’ve spent years getting to know Outlook. GMail might kill you! Okay, so the whole life preservation thing may be a little out of proportion. But still, you like Outlook?Read… Read more »
In the coming weeks, I’m going to be pushing out Google Apps tips and tricks. There are a lot of features that you probably don’t know about that will make Google Apps not just easier to use, but will actually make it do more of your work for you. You can get to almost allRead… Read more »
You almost can’t go a day without hearing something about “The Cloud”. Yet, according to a recent survey by the NPD Group, only 22% of U.S. Consumers are familiar with the term “Cloud Computing”. So I thought I’d take this opportunity to, pardon the expression, clear the air. The Internet has come a long wayRead… Read more »