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- [G] Live webinar: Chromebook innovation
- [G] Tradition meets technology: top universities using Apps for Education
- [G] Introducing faster publisher payments!
- [G] Search data reveals people turn to the Internet in crises
- [G] This week in Docs: Format painter, Google Fusion Tables, and drag & drop images
- [G] Music Tuesday: David Choi, Meklit Hadero and more
- [G] Tradition meets technology: top universities using Apps for Education
- [G] AdSense in Your City: Announcing upcoming events
- [G] Supporting Europe’s Efforts for More Cloud Adoption
- [G] Comment-only access in Google documents
| [G] Live webinar: Chromebook innovation Posted: 13 Sep 2011 11:26 PM PDT Official Google Enterprise Blog: Live webinar: Chromebook innovationPosted by Kevin Gough, Chromebooks for Business teamWith frequent updates, Chromebooks automatically get better over time. During this webinar, you'll learn about the newest business features for Chromebooks, including VPN and secure Wi-Fi (802.1X) support , as well as apps optimized for Chromebooks that make these computers even more flexible for business. With built-in Wi-Fi and 3G, it's rare for Chromebooks to be without internet access. However, we'll review new offline functionalities for our apps, including the new Gmail Offline app and offline modes for Google Docs and Google Calendar that allow Chromebook users to be productive even without connectivity. And, for employees who need access to their desktop software, we'll demo a "tech preview" of Citrix Receiver optimized for Chromebooks. If you're a Citrix customer, this app enables access to your virtualized applications right from the web browser. We'll also include time for Q&A with Chromebook product specialists on topics of your choice. What: Chromebook innovation - new features, offline apps and Citrix When: Thursday, September 15, 9am PDT / 12pm EDT / 5pm GST Preseners: Kevin Gough & Jeff Keltner, Chromebooks for Business team Register now  URL: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/09/live-webinar-chromebook-innovation.html       |
| [G] Tradition meets technology: top universities using Apps for Education Posted: 13 Sep 2011 11:26 PM PDT Official Google Enterprise Blog: Tradition meets technology: top universities using Apps for EducationPosted by Tom Mills, Director of Education(Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog) Pop quiz: What's significant about the number 61? (a) Number of points required to win a standard game of Cribbage (b) The country code to call Australia (c) Number of Top 100 universities that use Google Apps for Education As all Aussie Cribbage enthusiasts attending college in the U.S. may suspect, this is actually a trick question—all three answers are correct! Today, U.S. News and World Report released their 28th annual ranking of the top higher-education institutions across the nation. While this list of schools represents traditions of academic excellence that span centuries, these institutions also clearly recognize the importance (and value) of modern technology in academia. We're thrilled that 61 of this year's top 100 universities have chosen Google Apps for Education to help improve communication and collaboration on campus. We're proud to see such historic institutions moving to the world of 100% web. Here are just a few of the schools from this year's "Top 100" that have gone Google:
Finally, it's not just about who is using Google Apps. We're also interested in how students and staff are using Google tools to do amazing things inside and outside the classroom. Since 61 is the magic number, we've compiled 61 stories directly from students, faculty and staff at these universities: www.google.com/apps/top100schools.  These 61 schools represent just a small portion of the 14 million students, faculty and staff now using Google Apps for Education. All over the world, Google Apps is helping schools offer their communities a better way of working together, and we're honored to be a part of this new tradition.  URL: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/09/tradition-meets-technology-top.html   |
| [G] Introducing faster publisher payments! Posted: 13 Sep 2011 11:26 PM PDT Google Affiliate Network: Introducing faster publisher payments!Google Affiliate Network provides an industry-leading publisher payments system in over 40 currencies and 80 countries, with a wide variety of payment options. We're excited to announce that starting next month, Google Affiliate Network will be making publisher payments faster by eliminating 30 days from our current payment schedule. This enables publishers to be paid within 30 days or 60 days of driving a valid conversion, depending on the advertiser's schedule. Multiple benefits to our advertisers and publishers include:For advertisers:
We're continually looking for new ways to keep improving payment and delivery options in different countries. Stay tuned to the Google Affiliate Network Blog as we work to improve the payments experience for publishers around the world! For further information on payments, please visit our Help Center. Posted by Erica Sievert, Product Marketing Manager  URL: http://googleaffiliatenetwork-blog.blogspot.com/2011/09/introducing-faster-publisher-payments.html   |
| [G] Search data reveals people turn to the Internet in crises Posted: 13 Sep 2011 11:26 PM PDT Google Public Policy Blog: Search data reveals people turn to the Internet in crisesPosted by Ryan Falor, Crisis Response Product Manager(Cross-posted from the Google.org blog) People often share stories with us about the ways the Internet has helped them during natural disasters. Whether it's accessing information about the event, communicating with loved ones during a crisis or finding out how to help respond in the aftermath, the web plays a valuable role. We looked up some statistics from our search data for several natural disasters to get insights into this phenomenon. We see two consistent trends in search behavior and internet use in the affected areas: a substantial (and often dominant) proportion of searches are directly related to the crises; and people continue to search and access information online even while traffic and search levels drop temporarily during and immediately following the crises. While in some cases internet access is restricted due to infrastructure failures, generally Internet Service Providers continue to provide connectivity and users take advantage of it. The findings show just how resilient the internet can be in times of crises, compared to other infrastructure. We expect these trends will continue, and to a great extent this drives the ongoing work of the Google Crisis Response team to improve the information available on the 'net during crises. Joplin Tornado, Joplin, MO, USA, May 2011 The week of this year's tornadoes in Joplin, Missouri, searches for terms related to help, safety and recovery were significantly up from normal levels. [Disaster relief] was 2054 percent greater than normal and [FEMA], [American Red Cross], and [National Weather Service] showed increases of 400-1000%. Despite the tragedy, in which 25 percent of the town was destroyed and 75 percent damaged, we still saw search traffic at 58 percent of normal levels the day of the tornado, and an immediate recovery toward normal Internet traffic occured within a day of the event. Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, LA, USA, August 2005 During Hurricane Katrina, one of the largest U.S. disasters in recent memory, terms like [new orleans], [hurricane] and [katrina] topped search queries while search queries for resource providers like FEMA and the American Red Cross grew the fastest, according to our data. Even as 90% of the population was evacuated from New Orleans, we still saw search traffic at more than 50 percent of normal in Louisiana and 20% of normal in New Orleans, based on the previous five-day average. The Internet has proven to be an essential resource during natural disasters internationally as well. Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, Northern Coast, Japan, March, 2011 During the Japan earthquake and tsunami, searches for earthquake information and impacts including terms like [outage], [tokyo electric power] and [rolling blackouts] gew the fasted and also topped the list of most searched queries across Japan. In fact, even in the hardest hit areas, where mobile and landline communications were disrupted, Internet services were largely unaffected. During this time, people entered 620,000 records into Google Person Finder, a tool developed by the Google Crisis Response team to help people find missing friends and loved ones in the aftermath of such disasters. Chile Earthquake, Maule Chile, February 2010 Immediately following the earthquake, people searching online were actively looking for earthquake information; earthquake and news source search terms became eight of the top 10 queries. [Terremoto] was the most searched term, and two online news sources, Terra and Emol, and the National Office for Emergencies [onemi] also appeared as top keywords. While there was no search traffic for 15 minutes after the earthquake, within one day searches had recovered to 25 percent of normal traffic, and search traffic returned to pre-earthquake levels within just four days. Haiti Earthquake, Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, January 2010 The month of the Haiti earthquake, [seisme]—or "earthquake"—was the fastest-growing search term, and it continued its surface as a frequently searched term for almost two months after the earthquake. In the capital city of Port-Au-Prince, at the center of the earthquake, search traffic stopped momentarily, but did not completely disappear even when the three submarine Internet cables were cut as a result of the earthquake. As outlined by this U.S. Department of Homeland Security Communications Summary, Internet Service Providers were able to quickly reroute connections through a microwave relay wireless communication between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. This allowed traffic to return to rise within one day, and reach normal levels within a few months, despite ongoing damage to the city and country's infrastructure. We're excited about continuing our work to create and support products that make the Internet even more useful to people looking for information and communication during crises.  URL: http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2011/09/search-data-reveals-people-turn-to.html   |
| [G] This week in Docs: Format painter, Google Fusion Tables, and drag & drop images Posted: 13 Sep 2011 04:14 PM PDT Docs Blog: This week in Docs: Format painter, Google Fusion Tables, and drag & drop imagesThis week in Docs, we're introducing three new tools that put the fun in functional.Format painter in Google documents First, we've added a format painter to help you copy formatting within Google documents. The new format painter allows you to copy the style of your text, including font, size, color and other formatting options and apply it somewhere else in your document. To use the format painter, select the text for the formatting you want to copy, press the paintbrush button in your toolbar, and then select the text where you want to apply that formatting.  If you double-click on the format painter icon, you'll enter a mode that lets you select multiple sections of text so you can apply the same formatting to each section. You can also use keyboard shortcuts for format painting: Ctrl+Option+C will copy the style of your selected text and Ctrl+Option+V will apply any copied styles to whatever text you have selected. Google Fusion Tables in documents list With this week's update, we're also integrating Google Fusion Tables into your documents list. Google Fusion Tables is a data management web application that makes it easy to gather, visualize and collaborate on data online. Now you'll be able to store and share your Fusion Tables with the rest of the files in your documents list. Recently, people have used Google Fusion Tables to:
Go to Create new > Table from your documents list menu to get started visualizing or sharing tables of data in .csv, .xls or .kml files.  We're working on making Google Fusion Tables available to Google Apps customers and will let you know as soon as they are. Take a tour to learn more about Google Fusion Tables. Drag & drop images in Google drawings We also made it easier to add images from your desktop to Google drawings. If you're using the latest version of Chrome, Safari, or Firefox, you can now drag an image from your desktop and drop it directly in the drawing canvas.  Give these tools a try and let us know what you think in the comments. Posted by: Micah Lemonick, Software Engineer  URL: http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2011/09/this-week-in-docs-format-painter-google.html   |
| [G] Music Tuesday: David Choi, Meklit Hadero and more Posted: 13 Sep 2011 04:14 PM PDT YouTube Blog: Music Tuesday: David Choi, Meklit Hadero and moreLast week on youtube.com/music, we brought you a full album of vintage psychedelic music, a playlist of space-themed videos to commemorate the New Pornographers' new sci-fi offering, and eMusic's Six Degrees of Beirut playlist, which traced the band's influences. We also featured a few awesome videos we thought you should see. This week, we're ignoring the massive bunch of new releases from everybody from Lady Antebellum and Bob Seger (!) to Blitzen Trapper, Katy B, Mogwai, Neon Indian, Laura Marling, Das Racist, The Kooks and Trombone Shorty. Instead, we're taking music discovery to a whole new level.Get More Into Singer-Songwriters With David Choi David Choi has become one of YouTube's biggest stars, a singer-songwriter whose reach is equalled only by his following. This week, David put out a call to the community to help him get more into singer-songwriters on YouTube. The community responded with over a thousand suggestions. He whittled the list down to his favorites, who are featured today on the homepage and youtube.com/musictuesday. Introducing Meklit Hadero Meklit Hadero is hardly a household name, but she should be. The Ethiopian-American singer-songwriter's jazzy, soulful style has drawn enthusiastic accolades from anybody who heard 2010's On A Day Like This. (And we think more folks should hear it.) Hadero spent a good part of her time honing her sound at the Red Poppy Art House in San Francisco, a crucible for innovative musicians, and the time she put in shows. In June, she visited Google and gave a live performance, which you'll see here, paired with her debut video for "Leaving Soon." Raleigh Moncrief: Lament For Morning Debate has raged among music geeks about whether "chillwave" is a genuine phenomenon or just a term cooked up to link disparate, laptop-based artists. We won't label the work by the young Sacramento, CA-based producer Raleigh Moncrief (who recently signed to the genre-defying independent label Anticon) -- but a pop-meets-ambient vibe is certainly there. The song's basic architecture rests on Philip Glass-style repetition before wreathing itself in respectably-sized beats -- and the result is absorbing. Perhaps equally impressive is this abstract, impressionistic video, which Moncrief directed himself. Sarah Bardeen, Music Community Manager, recently watched "Shlohmo - Just Us."     URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/youtube/PKJx/~3/rrsU1hSJbwU/music-tuesday-david-choi-meklit-hadero.html   |
| [G] Tradition meets technology: top universities using Apps for Education Posted: 13 Sep 2011 11:09 AM PDT Official Google Blog: Tradition meets technology: top universities using Apps for EducationPop quiz: What's significant about the number 61? (a) Number of points required to win a standard game of CribbageAs all Aussie Cribbage enthusiasts attending college in the U.S. may suspect, this is actually a trick question—all three answers are correct! Today, U.S. News and World Report released their 28th annual ranking of the top higher-education institutions across the nation. While this list of schools represents traditions of academic excellence that span centuries, these institutions also clearly recognize the importance (and value) of modern technology in academia. We're thrilled that 61 of this year's top 100 universities have chosen Google Apps for Education to help improve communication and collaboration on campus. We're proud to see such historic institutions moving to the world of 100% web. Here are just a few of the schools from this year's "Top 100" that have gone Google:
Finally, it's not just about who is using Google Apps. We're also interested in how students and staff are using Google tools to do amazing things inside and outside the classroom. Since 61 is the magic number, we've compiled 61 stories directly from students, faculty and staff at these universities: www.google.com/apps/top100schools.  These 61 schools represent just a small portion of the 14 million students, faculty and staff now using Google Apps for Education. All over the world, Google Apps is helping schools offer their communities a better way of working together, and we're honored to be a part of this new tradition. (Cross-posted on the Enterprise Blog) Posted by Tom Mills, Director of Education  URL: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/tradition-meets-technology-top.html   |
| [G] AdSense in Your City: Announcing upcoming events Posted: 13 Sep 2011 11:09 AM PDT Inside AdSense: AdSense in Your City: Announcing upcoming eventsOur AdSense in Your City optimization team has met hundreds of our publishers over the past several months, and we're thrilled to announce our upcoming AdSense in Your City events. Soon we'll be hosting events in the following locations:
The optimization team will be at each event offering best practices and customized optimization tips. Other local publishers will also be in attendance, providing a great networking opportunity. We're working on finalizing the venues and times, but we wanted to share the cities as soon as possible. As always, our team would love to meet with all of you, but space is limited. If you'd like to attend one of the above events, please fill out our interest form. We'll do our best to accommodate as many requests as possible. Invitations and additional details will be sent to accepted publishers two weeks prior to each event. Make sure you are opted in to receive special offer email messages from the AdSense team to ensure you can receive email invites to events like these. Hope to meet you soon! Courtney Yamada, AdSense Optimization Team  URL: http://adsense.blogspot.com/2011/09/adsense-in-your-city-announcing.html   |
| [G] Supporting Europe’s Efforts for More Cloud Adoption Posted: 13 Sep 2011 11:09 AM PDT Official Google Enterprise Blog: Supporting Europe's Efforts for More Cloud AdoptionPosted by Marco Pancini, Senior Policy Counsel, EuropeIn May, the European Commission launched a Public Consultation on cloud computing to collect stakeholders' input on opportunities and barriers to the adoption of cloud computing. Ms. Neelie Kroes, the Vice President of the European Commission and European Digital Agenda Commissioner, summarised Europe's ambition quite well when she declared in a recent speech, that "the goal is to make Europe not just cloud-friendly but also cloud-active." At Google, we fully support the European Commission's efforts in this area. Cloud computing is gaining traction in Europe and elsewhere. The cloud saves users money and it creates jobs. According to a recent study from Professor Federico Etro of the University of Venice, cloud computing in the EU will contribute 0.4% of GDP and create a million jobs by 2016. Similarly, in the United States Vivek Kundra, previously the Obama administration's Chief Information Officer, recently pointed out in the New York Times that U.S. government agencies can gain significant economic benefits by moving their IT services to the cloud. And, as we said in July, the United States has reached out to industry for input. We're thrilled that governments in Europe and the United States are so enthusiastic about cloud computing. For these reasons, Google has submitted its contribution to this important debate in Europe. In particular, we have provided our point of view on what we consider key issues, namely:
 URL: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/09/supporting-europes-efforts-for-more.html   |
| [G] Comment-only access in Google documents Posted: 13 Sep 2011 11:09 AM PDT Official Google Enterprise Blog: Comment-only access in Google documentsPosted by Sarah Wu, Software Engineer(Cross-posted on the Google Docs Blog.) In the past several months, we've added new discussion and commenting features to improve collaboration in Google documents. As an engineer, I often create docs with design concepts and send them to my team to review and provide feedback, and we use the commenting features to facilitate these discussions. Sometimes, I want to let team members view and make comments without allowing them to directly edit my document. Over the next few days, we're releasing a new sharing option so that you can let people view and add comments to your documents without giving them edit access. To give comment-only access to your document, click on the Share button. From there, add in the contact you'd like to share your document with, and select Can comment.  You can also choose to give comment-only access to anyone with the link or anyone on the web by changing the sharing settings within the document. To do this, click Change in the sharing settings window and change visibility options to Public on the web or Anyone with the link, then change the access options to Can comment. Similarly, if you're using a Google Apps account, click Change in the sharing settings and select either "People at who have the link can access" or "People at can find and access." Then change access option to Can comment.  Users that have comment-only access can view your document and add comments throughout -- without being able to change the content of the document directly. We hope this latest feature in discussions helps you get the feedback you need while providing you with more control over the content in your docs. So comment away and tell us what you think -- below or in the forum.  URL: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/09/comment-only-access-in-google-documents_12.html   |
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