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A recent example of the use of Google Sites for Government Institutions is for Washington DC. The have recently made a Google site public for their upcoming job fair:https://sites.google.com/a/dc.gov/octo-jobs/Home Full story

When it came time for Washington, D.C., to create a new intranet for city employees, spending US$4 million on a site based on proprietary portal software just didn't seem like a good idea to CTO Vivek Kundra. But using Google Apps did.Google Apps is not replacing Microsoft Office entirely for the 38,000 municipal employees in Washington D.C. However, more and more government employees ... Full story

IBM has launched online services for business collaboration based on lotus platform. This makes them a key challenger to Google (Google Apps), and Cisco (webex). IBM has tied together parts of its Lotus, Rational, and Tivoli software to appeal to Small and Mid size Business and departments in larger corporations, because of the minimal up-front costs and maintenance.This is a "cloud-services initiative" of ... Full story

As an avid user of Google Apps and Google Docs I have always wondered about when the Google spreadsheet will be more closer to the MS office Excel Spreadsheet in terms of its usability, navigation and features. For a detailed description of the new interface you can go to the already updated Google Docs help page.Here are some key changes:... Full story

It seems another educational institution is moving to Google Apps - Virginia techhttp://david.carter-tod.com/wp/2008/09/21/moving-to-google-apps-for-education/ Full story

This is off topic. Google has completed 10 years and have put a webpage for celebrating 10th birthday which is worth having a look:http://www.google.com/tenthbirthday/They have also lauched a new project called Project 10100 (pronounced "Project 10 to the 100th")... Full story

A lot of noice is being made on internet about most of Google products being in "beta". It all started with an article by Web Monitoring company Pingdon in their article where they questioned why out of 49 of Google products 49 are in beta?They indicated that some of notable products which are stim in beta are Google Docs, Google Gmail and Google ... Full story

Dr. Helen Barrett of Washington, United States is an educationist and have recently retired from the faculty of the College of Education at the University of Alaska Anchorage. She has this very impressive Site created using Google Sites.http://sites.helenbarrett.net/portfolio/HomeWithin this Google Site she has a section on "Creating an Interactive Portfolio with Google Sites" which may be helpful to readers.... Full story

What is Google Apps?Google Apps are a set of online applications (also know as Software as a Service - SaaS applications) which enable collaboration among your your enterprise users.What services are included in Google Apps?Google Apps services include - Google Mail, Google Talk, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Sites, Google Start Page (additional ... Full story

Google has recently launched some more administrative features in Google Apps which will help administrators of large companies in managing users easily.In a small businesses who use Google Apps, it is easy for administrators to help employees configure user settings account-by-account. But this approach was not appropriate for larger companies having users in excess of hundres. I have seen difficulty my clients are ... Full story