Tutorial Thursday

There have been plenty of occasions where I have been left wondering if I had lost everything in my Gmail account. If you don’t know about any of those situations that I’m talking about, just view all of the past occurrences that we have written about. People have lost every email in their account numerous times, and how do you know that you’re not going

A lot of people are always skeptical about storing information on the Internet because of privacy concerns, and that is perfectly understandable. But we’re constantly being told that our data is safe like with this statement in the Google Docs help section:

Rest assured that your documents and spreadsheets will remain private unless you publish them to the Web or invite collaborators and/or viewers.

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When I think of YouTube, I certainly don’t picture it in the corporate scene, however, that’s where it’s heading. Google is transforming YouTube into a new “corporate” version that will be available to the thousands of businesses currently using Google Apps. According to Business Week, this new version could be used to “create videos for training and employee communications.”

Mashable pointed out some areas where this new corporate version would make sense:

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Google had Google Apps (among other things) in mind when they went after Postini to acquire them. The acquisition for Postini, a communications security and compliance company was announced today for $625 million.

The announcement mentioned that more than 1,000 small businesses sign up for Google apps daily, (wow!) but that larger businesses and enterprises are often times hesitant or unable to sign-up for the service because they have security needs that

Today Google announced a whole list of new features for Google Apps which is used by both small and large businesses alike.  Out of the list, one of them stood out more than the others. The very last item listed under the changes was “Google Docs & Spreadsheets refresh – Soon we’ll complete a visual overhaul of Docs & Spreadsheets that will make it much easier for users with dozens or even hundreds of documents

ReadWriteWeb has put together a quick comparison of five different online office suites to see how they stack up to each other, and so I thought that I would give my take on Zoho vs. Google Docs & Spreadsheets. Google and Zoho have both been leaders in the online office suite arena, and each are great for different reasons.

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The new fad these days is collaboration via video conferencing, instant messengers, or just by sharing files over the Internet. Google Docs has been known to embrace that by offering a collaboration feature on both their document or spreadsheet service, where sharing the information is as simple as entering in the user’s email address.

When sharing a document with people, you can choose whether they are a collaborator who can make changes to