Saturday, March 3, 2012

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[G] Chrome dons a suit and heads to Washington

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 10:56 PM PST

Google Chrome Blog: Chrome dons a suit and heads to Washington

For the same reasons you might choose Chrome for your home or work computer -- speed, simplicity, security -- businesses and organizations are choosing to give Chrome to their employees. Just over a year ago we announced that Chrome would get a special set of tools for IT admins at organizations, giving them controls to easily set up, push out and manage the browser in a professional environment. Now guess what? The US Department of State made Chrome available to all employees, and just two weeks later, more than 58,000 of their employees have Chrome installed.


US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announces Chrome for employees at 35:10.

Read more from our guest blogger Chris Bronk from the US Department of State on the Google Enterprise blog, and check out the Chrome for Business website.

Posted by Glenn Wilson, Product Manager
URL: http://chrome.blogspot.com/2012/03/chrome-dons-suit-and-heads-to.html

[G] Offers.com utilizes technology and strong partnerships to increase sales by 36%

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 10:56 PM PST

Google Affiliate Network: Offers.com utilizes technology and strong partnerships to increase sales by 36%


Over the past few years, Google Affiliate Network has helped advertisers and publishers grow their businesses with the right mix of technology, service, and data insights. We're pleased to share these stories with you on the blog every few weeks. 

Offers.com is an Austin-based publisher that aggregates and promotes deals from all over the web. In 2011, as they considered their annual goals, Offers.com Vice President Howard Schaffer worked with Google Affiliate Network to grow top line revenue and better align with advertisers' brand goals.

Using Google Affiliate Network link subscriptions, product search, and product feed subscriptions, Howard and the Offers.com team culled the right information to provide their audience with the most compelling deals. Their proven results earned the Offers.com team the trust and confidence of a growing group of advertisers, assisting a number of them with their search strategy.

By coupling Google Affiliate Network technology with building strong partnerships, advertiser sales through Offers.com increased 36% YoY in 2011.

Learn more by reading the full case study.

Posted by Will Heidrich, Account Manager
URL: http://googleaffiliatenetwork-blog.blogspot.com/2012/03/offerscom-utilizes-technology-and.html

[G] Secretary Clinton Announces State Department Use of Chrome

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 10:56 PM PST

Official Google Enterprise Blog: Secretary Clinton Announces State Department Use of Chrome

Posted by Chris Bronk, Senior Advisor, IRM's Office of eDiplomacy, U.S. Department of State

Editors note: We were excited to hear that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton herself announced to State employees that they would be getting the Chrome browser. Now that they have it, we invited Chris to share some more details.

The State Department gave our employees around the world a special Valentine's Day gift as we made the Google Chrome browser available to all employees on February 14. This makes us the first U.S. cabinet department to make Chrome available department-wide.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made the announcement to a town hall meeting of State Department employees, where it was greeted with rousing applause:

State's historical approach to browsers is to test compatibility with all corporate, enterprise-level applications and remediate any issues prior to full release. We've taken a different approach with Chrome. Offering Chrome as a browser option allows us to take full advantage of Chrome's speed -- from quick startup to rapid website loading -- plus the ability to access the full range of modern websites, and will allow our employees to be more productive in their work. When a new release of Chrome is made available with enhanced functionality or added security, we can release it into production immediately, bypassing cumbersome testing.

With Chrome for Business, our Information Resources Management (IRM) team was able to deploy Chrome quickly and securely. After two weeks, it has been installed on over 58,000 PCs around the world or around 60% of our enterprise. The administrative capabilities of Chrome for Business will allow IRM to manage the browser going forward, making sure that all employees are on the same version and can take advantage of new features that are regularly made available in new Chrome releases.

We're enthusiastic to be leading the charge to bring an enhanced web browsing experience to State employees executing the critical U.S. diplomatic mission around the world!

URL: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2012/03/secretary-clinton-announces-state.html

[G] Syria approves new constitution, tornadoes ravage Mid-West, Breitbart dies age 43

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 10:56 PM PST

YouTube Blog: Syria approves new constitution, tornadoes ravage Mid-West, Breitbart dies age 43

Everyday on the CitizenTube channel (and @CitizenTube on Twitter), along with our curation partners @storyful, we look at how the top news stories are covered on YouTube. Each week we post a weekly recap of the top news stories of the week, as seen through the lens of both citizen-reported footage and professional news coverage.

Come back next week to see the news unfold on YouTube.

Olivia Ma, YouTube News and Politics, recently watched "New Worry on Global Warming: Mass Shrinkage".



URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/youtube/PKJx/~3/ywqlMoYiOhg/syria-approves-new-constitution.html

[G] Are you a brainiac? Take the YouTube EDU Pop Quiz

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 12:47 PM PST

YouTube Blog: Are you a brainiac? Take the YouTube EDU Pop Quiz


As Chris Anderson, founder of TED, said, "Tomorrow's best teachers will be global stars reaching literally millions of kids". We believe that the next generation of great teachers will come from all walks of life - they might be popular vloggers, lifelong educators, popular scientists, or journalists - and we're working hard to get them sharing their knowledge on YouTube EDU. To highlight the breadth and depth of awesome educational content we have on the site today, we worked with some of our newest YouTube EDU partners to put together an interactive game testing your smarts. 








At the end of the video you'll be asked a question which you should answer using the annotations embedded in the video. This will automatically take you on to the answer, and to the next question. The quiz has five questions in total, each from a different YouTube EDU partner, and then at the end you'll receive your score. Enough description though - go play (and learn)!

Will Houghteling, YouTube EDU, recently watched "How Web Video Powers Global Innovation".






URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/youtube/PKJx/~3/_cgdz5dqMMo/are-you-brainiac-take-youtube-edu-pop.html
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