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- [G] Better access to your content is, well, better
- [G] Mississippi floods: images and data
- [G] Live webcast: Virginia legislative agencies discuss benefits of Google Apps
- [G] Connecting educators through Google Apps Regional K-12 User Groups
- [G] Introducing our official search blog
- [G] Bringing Google Apps educators together through regional user groups
- [G] Hundreds of ways to work smarter with Google Apps
- [G] YouTube Town Hall: where your views count
| [G] Better access to your content is, well, better Posted: 19 May 2011 04:24 AM PDT Google LatLong: Better access to your content is, well, better(Cross-posted from the Google Places Blog.) Google Places makes it quick and easy for you to tell your friends, and the world, what you think about the places you visit. And since your reviews are your reviews, we figured giving you access to all this content in one convenient way might be helpful. Now, when you visit your profile on Google Places (to find it, click on your picture in the upper left of the screen), you'll find a link along the left that points to an Atom feed of all the place ratings and reviews you've created on Google. The feed address is known only to you, but you are free to share it however you want. So, go on, enjoy your data. In addition to taking your Google Places ratings and reviews with you, we also thought it'd be useful if you could more easily rate and review on Google the places you've found elsewhere in your travels or on the web. To do that, just find the URL of a public GeoRSS/Atom feed that contains place information you care about. This could be anything from a feed of your Foursquare check-ins to a My Map you may have created years ago. Paste the URL into the search box on Google Places. We'll show you place cards that line up, as best as we're able to determine, with the places in the public geo feed. Then, you can rate to your heart's content. By making it easier for you take your opinions with you and rate familiar places quickly, we hope you'll find more places you love, no matter where you may have discovered them. Posted by Juan Silveira, Software Engineer  URL: http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2011/05/better-access-to-your-content-is-well.html       |
| [G] Mississippi floods: images and data Posted: 19 May 2011 04:24 AM PDT Google LatLong: Mississippi floods: images and dataEmerging as one of the worst flooding events along the U.S. waterway in the past century, the Mississippi River floods of April and May 2011 have caused widespread destruction along the 2,300 mile river system. Historically high water levels from heavy rains and springtime snowmelt have provided no shortage of dramatic scenes -- levees breached, downtown areas completely submerged, spillways opened, and more. The Google Crisis Response team has assembled a collection of flood data including satellite imagery for impacted cities along the river from GeoEye, flood extent and crest data forecasts from the US Army Corps of Engineers (kml) and NOAA's National Weather Service (kml), and shelter locations from the American Red Cross (kml).  Opened floodgate in Morganza spillway in Louisiana on May 15, 2011. View full-size.  Cairo, Illinois on May 8, 2011. View full-size. Posted by Pete Giencke, Google Crisis Response Team  URL: http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2011/05/mississippi-floods-images-and-data.html   |
| [G] Live webcast: Virginia legislative agencies discuss benefits of Google Apps Posted: 18 May 2011 08:53 PM PDT Official Google Enterprise Blog: Live webcast: Virginia legislative agencies discuss benefits of Google AppsPosted by Wendy Wu, Google Enterprise TeamThe IT staffs of the Senate of Virginia and Division of Legislative Automated Systems (DLAS) were taxed with the responsibility of maintaining and upgrading servers and desktop clients for a legacy email system, as well as purchasing server and client licenses. As users' mail databases grew larger, so did the storage space and the amount of data to backup daily. In addition, plans were being established for continuity of operations, which their current email system environment could not easily offer. All these factors led to their migration to Google Apps. After conducting initial pilot projects using Google Apps, DLAS and the Senate officially migrated to Google Apps in 2009 and 2010, respectively. Last summer, convinced by compelling cost savings and reduced IT administrative work, 11 legislative agencies supported by DLAS made the switch, including the Division of Capitol Police, State Crime Commission, and Joint Commission on Health Care. The switch to Google Apps has enabled DLAS and the Senate to reduce IT maintenance time and dramatically increase document and email storage space -- all while saving significantly on licensing costs. Best of all, employees are more productive with Google Apps. They enjoy larger email quotas, easier access to their email on the go, and the ability to collaborate on documents in real time via Google Docs. Join us on Thursday 5/19 at 11:00am PT / 2:00pm ET for a live webcast. Presenters from DLAS and the Senate and Google partners DLT Solutions and MiCore Solutions will discuss the business drivers behind their decision to go Google and how they approached the implementation. You'll also learn how the various legislative agencies are leveraging and integrating Google Apps into existing business processes. Click here to register. We hope to see you there!  URL: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/05/live-webcast-virginia-legislative.html   |
| [G] Connecting educators through Google Apps Regional K-12 User Groups Posted: 18 May 2011 08:53 PM PDT Official Google Enterprise Blog: Connecting educators through Google Apps Regional K-12 User GroupsPosted by Dana Nguyen, Google Apps for Education Team One of the best parts of working on the Google Apps for Education team is talking with teachers and hearing the incredible ways they are using Google Apps to enhance classroom learning. Kern Kelley and Rob Dominick, teachers based in Newport, Maine, use laptop cameras and Google forms to grade math quizzes. Aida Awad, a science teacher in Park Ridge, Illinois, instructs students to use a motion chart to plot and contrast plant growth in different environments. In the UK, Ian Addison's elementary school students create impressive websites about their hometown. With millions of students and teachers moving to Google Apps, we want to make it easier for teachers around the world to connect and share these kinds of examples with each other. Today we're excited to announce eight Google Apps Regional K-12 User Groups across the United States and Canada. These groups are designed for educators to learn and collaborate through community discussion forums, shared resources, events and webinars. In addition to showcasing creative instructional uses for Google Apps, we hope these groups will help teachers and administrators to identify other schools in their region that have "gone Google." If you live in the United States or Canada, check out the list below to find and join your Google Apps Regional K-12 User Group (International user groups are coming soon, stay tuned...) States:
 URL: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/05/connecting-educators-through-google.html   |
| [G] Introducing our official search blog Posted: 18 May 2011 06:58 PM PDT Official Google Blog: Introducing our official search blog(Cross-posted from the Inside Search Blog)The thirst for knowledge is as old as humanity. It's only in the past decade that the Internet has made knowledge ubiquitous, and we want to help you find the answers you're looking for, whether it's the best price on a new microwave, where to find a great bike ride—or even information about the Internet itself. Generally, we help you answer questions by refining our algorithms, but today we're taking a slightly different approach: we're starting a blog—"Inside Search." Here you'll find regular updates on our algorithms and features, as well as stories from the people who work to improve Google every day. In the past we've published information about search on the Official Google Blog (more than 400 posts about search and more than 50 weekly wrap-ups), and webmaster-oriented posts on the Webmaster Central Blog (more than 300 posts). We also operate a help center for search and another for webmasters. That's not to mention the search help forums which have more than 50,000 discussions, and the webmaster central help forums with more than 90,000. Combine this with YouTube channels and search conferences, and it's safe to say we talk a lot about search. Even with all these channels, we still felt we were missing something. We didn't want to flood the Official Google Blog with smaller stories and announcements, and the Webmaster Central Blog is really meant for, well, webmasters. We started our series "This week in search" to provide a way to share information about some of the smaller updates we're making, but we got feedback that people wanted their search news and information as it happens, not just weekly. So, we're starting Inside Search as a place where you can find regular updates on the intricacies of search and our team. We have more engineers working on search than any other product, and each one of us has stories to tell.  A glimpse inside the weekly search "quality launches" meeting, during which we approve the roughly 500 improvements we make to search every year. On behalf of the team, welcome! Posted by Amit Singhal, Google Fellow  URL: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/introducing-our-official-search-blog.html   |
| [G] Bringing Google Apps educators together through regional user groups Posted: 18 May 2011 12:58 PM PDT Official Google Blog: Bringing Google Apps educators together through regional user groupsFrom grading math quizzes with Google forms to plotting plant growth in a motion chart, teachers around the world are constantly generating new, creative ways Google Apps can improve instruction.To make it easier for educators to share great ideas beyond their school walls, we're introducing eight Google Apps Regional K-12 User Groups across the U.S. and Canada. These groups will enable educators and administrators to learn from one another and collaborate through community discussion forums, shared resources, events and webinars. If you're an educator interested in sharing and learning new ways to use Apps in your classroom, visit the Enterprise Blog for more information and to sign up. Posted by Dana Nguyen, Google Apps for Education Team  URL: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/bringing-google-apps-educators-together.html   |
| [G] Hundreds of ways to work smarter with Google Apps Posted: 18 May 2011 10:56 AM PDT Official Google Enterprise Blog: Hundreds of ways to work smarter with Google AppsPosted by Michelle Lisowski, Google Apps TeamTalking to our small businesses customers, we see they have a passion for what they do and a drive to succeed. On the Google Apps team, we have a passion for helping small businesses succeed by providing them with access to the same technology that large enterprises often have at their disposal. Google Apps offers small businesses hundreds of ways to leverage the power of the web to work more efficiently and focus scarce time and resources on getting ahead of the competition. To celebrate National Small Business Week, we'd like to share a few of the ways that Google Apps is being used every day (we'll spare you the time of wading through hundreds). And to make it even easier to get started on tasks such as invoicing and project planning, all examples provided are based on templates from the Google Docs and Google Sites template galleries. Google Docs template gallery: #1: Letterhead - Create a professional looking template for your outgoing letters and share it with others in the company. Print letters directly from your browser with Chrome. #2: Budget planner - Easily build a 12-month budget spreadsheet that you can edit from anywhere throughout the year – no matter where your spending takes you. #3: Invoice - Save time by creating invoices in a spreadsheet – totals are automatically calculated, and you can share them with co-workers to ensure accuracy and speedy payments.  #4: Customer satisfaction survey - Get feedback from customers and visitors about your product or service with a form. Easily analyze and graph the data. #5: Business plan - Put your vision down in a doc. Share it with family, investors, banks, and others to get input and spread your ideas. #6: Project timeline - Give others in your company insight into key milestones, completion dates, and other project details. Google Sites template gallery: #7: Intranet - Build an internal website where employees can access company news, employee training information, company policies, holiday schedules, and more.  #8: Project site - Centralize project information in one place. Display a team profile and key dates, and embed project docs and spreadsheets directly in the site. #9: Team site - Create team rosters, schedule team meetings, and track progress of action items all in one place. #10: Employee profiles - Build a community by creating profile pages where your employees can post their goals, internal resume, and internal blog. The list continues but we hope this gives some idea of the range of use cases where Google Apps can help improve productivity for any small business. To learn more, check out some of our new resources including product videos and additional templates at www.google.com/apps/smb.  URL: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/05/hundreds-of-ways-to-work-smarter-with.html   |
| [G] YouTube Town Hall: where your views count Posted: 18 May 2011 06:36 AM PDT Official Google Blog: YouTube Town Hall: where your views count(Cross-posted from the YouTube Blog)How would you vote if you focused purely on the ideas needed to make our country and our world a better place, rather than on the parties putting them forward? That's a question that the new YouTube Town Hall seeks to answer. YouTube Town Hall is an online platform for members of Congress to virtually debate and discuss the most important issues of the day. You can select an issue, watch two short videos of members of Congress expressing different perspectives on how to tackle this issue, and then support the one you agree with most. The most supported videos will be tracked on the YouTube Town Hall Leaderboard. After you watch the video, you'll find out which party the representative comes from—and sometimes you might be surprised.  The first issues up for debate—budget, economy, energy, Afghanistan, education and healthcare—are those that were among the most popular on Google News and Google search over the past year. You'll also have the opportunity to ask the questions you want members of Congress to answer. Every month, members of Congress will add new videos to the site answering a selection of the top-voted questions. So if you're interested in lowering gas prices, reforming the tax system or making college more affordable, ask now! Posted by Will Houghteling, YouTube News and Politics  URL: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/youtube-town-hall-where-your-views.html   |
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