Full link for more information: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/05/introducing-people-widget.html

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In April, we launched a new version of Google documents. One feature that makes collaboration easier is improved commenting.

Connecting text to note

Comments let you make suggestions about the text in your document without modifying the document itself. When you click on a comment, the text it’s referring to is highlighted. And vice-versa — when you select highlighted text in your document, we identify the associated comment.

A detailed view of the comment box

Finally, we think the comment feature will give you flexibility to work with your notes in an intuitive and user-friendly way.

You can delete a comment by pressing the trash can icon above a comment. Or, you can respond to a comment by pressing the reply arrow, and it will show up just below the comment you’re responding to. You can hide a comment by marking the “X” button at the top of the comment.

Collaboration at the next level

The new version of Google documents is a built around collaboration, allowing you to work in real-time and to see what others are typing character by character. The new comment features makes it much easier to keep track of your ideas and notes while you work closely with others.

To try out improved commenting and other features, you’ll need to take the new preview version of Google documents for a test drive. You can opt-in by visiting the Editing tab in the Google Docs settings.

Posted by: Edgard Lindner, Software Engineer on the Google Apps Blog

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The Microsoft Office productivity suite has dominated the workplace and become the defacto standard when it comes to making documents.  Everyone has probably worked with Office at one point or another to some extent but how many have really “used” it, you know pushed it to its limits, made it do things that most don’t think are possible, things that really show the value out of your $600 purchase?  From our experience, not many.  For those of you who do – that’s great, because I can make Excel flex with some VBA myself but when it comes to getting stuff done I feel its enormously bloated.

Bloat means that it has a ton of stuff that is non-essential and a waste of time, space and mental processing.  Wait, what?  Mental processing? Yes when you are looking for that button to freeze the top row in your spread sheet and you have to wade through 3 “ribbon’s” worth of junk to find it. That’s Office wasting your brain power.

So what do we suggest?

For the VAST majority of people out there: Google Apps

From the Official Google Enterprise Blog:

By no means do we think that Google could possibly develop all the functionality that any employee might need, but at the same time, there’s real value in services that all connect to a common backbone for core systems like contacts, presence and user authentication. Businesses need specialized accounting tools, CRM systems, marketing automation capabilities, project management tools and much more. Through the Apps Marketplace and our developer tools, customers can integrate 3rd party cloud services with Google Apps and enhancements they develop themselves. The possibilities are limitless.

Google Apps doesn’t do it all, in fact it doesn’t want to do it all because most people only need to do certain things.  But I’m always going on about how powerful Google Apps is right?  That’s because it is.

Within this year Google has committed to bringing Blogger, Picasa, Reader and more to Google Apps.  That means from within the same tool you’ll have access to all of your information, the ability to share seamlessly and tie in capabilities that other products just cant match.  Google Marketplace allows you to bring in tools tailored to your specific needs for a workspace that is not bloated, but custom. (Ask us how we can help your business create a great workspace.)

The Short:

There will be people who NEED MS Office, for the rest of us its cheaper, faster, better and safer to use Google Apps Premier Edition for our daily productivity.

Ask us

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Google Campfire One is a developer conference for people working on the Google Platform. Video Below

Besides sharing with us some more of their clients and how many businesses have #GoneGoogle they released the Google Apps Marketplace. For the developers this makes it much easier to provide quality products that interoperate very very well together. For all of you users out there this means that there are a TON of great tools coming to you on your existing platform!

Here at Computer System Works, LLC we really want to help you be more flexible, productive and quality focused. We do this by helping you remove redundant work: the stuff where your eyes begin to cross, your fingers get tired and human error creeps in. This new Marketplace helps us do this even better.

We plan on going through a number of these apps, spending some quality time with them to learn more about how to properly use, or not use them. If there is a particular Google App that you would like to have reviewed let us know so we can move it up our list! In the mean time here are a couple of tools that caught our eye and we want to share:

(Please remember we’ve not yet been able to really dig into these yet. But we are working on it, so share with us your experiences!)

If you are interested in what Google Campfire One is all about: its a developer conference for people working on the Google platform to share new stuff. You can watch below:

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Here is a short video to give you a better idea:

The great thing about Tungle.Me is that it will sync with your Google Calendar automatically. You won’t have to maintain multiple schedules or check anything out. It will update your availability from whatever your true availability is (less any additional constraints you add) on your Google Calendar. As events get scheduled and accepted it’ll automagically appear in your Google Calendar for you, invitations sent and all!

Check out more at: Tungle.Me
If you want to see it in action: Tungle Aaron

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I will be adding a new post once I have a working script but my intentions are not incredibly exciting to anyone not setting up a lot of accounts.

If you found this helpful please comment or link to us!

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If your a fan of things like this also check out the book Making it All Work by David Allen. The following link will take you to a flowchart to show you what to expect: FlowChart

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