Posted by Dave, March 10th, 2010 | Tagged as | No Comments »
We are constantly looking for ways to make Google Apps and other cloud services work with you and your business. There are many people who prefer to use Outlook as their client of choice. Other tools like Offisync have integrated Microsoft Office and Google Docs, and you can sync outlook with Google Mail using the tools Google themselves provide.
Harmony have recently produced a new free add on for Microsoft Outlook that neatly integrates Google Docs. We have tried it and so far it seems to work really nicely!
If you give it a try, let us know how you find it in the comments!
NZ Postal Services Group recently chose to adopt Google Apps to provide more innovative and invaluable collaboration tools for its more than 2500 staff. Hear why they decided to go Google, and how they expect Google Apps to transform the way their business operates. Learn more about bringing Google Apps to your organization at http://www.google.co.nz/appsatwork
The world’s first free and independent Google-centric barcamp* is being held in Wellington on Thursday 25th March (8:30am-4pm) and we at WaveAdept are chuffed to be amongst the plethora of local, national and international sponsors of this community run event.
Of course a Google-centric conference could probably run for a week trying to cover all aspects of the Google services so we’ll be concentrating WaveAdept’s efforts on how Google Enterprise services save costs and provide value to Kiwi companies.
We won’t, however, be using the event to push our services or Google products (that’s for the more traditional events) but trying to get into the guts of what we in New Zealand think of the Google Enterterprise services (particularly Google Apps). For instance I have popped a proposed topic of, “Support from Google, what it is, what it isn’t and what the gap is (and how to overcome it)” and Dave has just this minute added, “Biggest gaps – what is preventing wider adoption of Google Apps in your opinion, what is missing?”
We hope to not only see you all there (maximum of 150 spaces, over 80 have already been taken) but to have a good old yarn about Google which, let’s be honest, is a fascinating subject on so many levels.
* A barcamp is a normal conference with one major difference, it is run by the attendees. This truly comes into play when the conference schedule is generated by all the attendees during the registration time, so get in early and mold this conference to what you want to talk/hear about.
Posted by Mike, February 26th, 2010 | Tagged as | 1 Comment »
I attended an extremely useful and well presented talk by Brendon Lynch who is the Senior Director of Privacy Strategy at Microsoft (sorry, couldn’t find a link to Brendon) on Tuesday at the Office of the Privacy Commissioner here in the Wellington.
The issues Brendon raised are nothing new for those of us that have been working long in the “cloud” and particularly the questions that Microsoft are now starting to hear are those that Google and other early players in this way of computing.
One point I believe he made extremely well was that the “cloud” is internationally delivered whilst “privacy” is local regulated.
This isn’t an easy situation to resolve but one that requires clever brains to sit down and sort out.
He also had a delightful way of explaining what the “cloud” is to those that are new to the term. The cloud is all fluffy and a way of drawing up the “internet”. But really, when you ask about how it’s made in the real world it turns out to be rectangle made up of racks, containers and buildings.
Finally, I loved the new word “markitecture” which describes the use of “technical architecture diagrams” within marketing presentations and are so abstract as to be useless to everyone
