Google Apps has been the go-to platform for handling my law firm’s email, contacts, documents, and calendar for better more than 4 years. I was an early adopter of the Google Apps program, and advocated its use long before the Office 365 commotion. I like Google Apps for Business since I can store and access… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Google Apps
21 Google Calendar Tricks
One of the reasons I love Google Calendar is because I can access the program across multiple platforms. Sure, Outlook 365 or Exchange offer similar capabilities, but since I’m a fully-committed Googlephile, I love my Calendar app and website. As a side note, despite the abundant absence of entries depicted, my other, real calendar is quite full.… Continue Reading
Google Apps Vault
Today, Google announced the availability of Google Apps Vault to all Google Apps customers. According to Google, “Google Apps Vault helps protect organizations of all sizes from lawsuits by enabling organizations to find and preserve email messages that may be relevant to a particular lawsuit. That saves time, effort, and costs associated with responding to litigation or… Continue Reading
Google Discontinues Services
Users beware. Beginning January 4, 2013 (or sooner for some programs), you’ll no longer have access to some features in Google Calendar, including the popular Calendar Sync. Google will discontinue some lesser-used services in favor of more robust support for their more popular products. The one concern I have is Calendar Sync, which fortunately won’t… Continue Reading
Taking Heat for Comments on Gmail
Please, please, let me explain myself! I wrote this post on the necessity for lawyers to brand themselves using something other than joesmithlawyer@gmail.com. The concept is simple: Gmail is becoming the next AOL when you’re talking professionalism. I’m taking a lot of heat for those comments. I didn’t mean to imply that Gmail doesn’t have… Continue Reading
Google Goes Dark
October 31, 2012 at 4:41 p.m. EDT is a time that will live in the minds of everyone as the time Google shut down for 6 minutes ( I didn’t even notice because I was home preparing for a Halloween party with The Droid Tots). And hey, guess what? The world continued onward. The disruption affected… Continue Reading
10 in 10 Tips from Google and Your Business Blog
Each week during the month of October, Google and Your Business blog will be giving tips and tricks for managing solutions with Google’s products. This week, the featured Google product is Gmail. I talked about some of these, including labels, which I love. One thing I need to enable is 2-step verification. There’s added security,… Continue Reading
Google Apps or Hosted Exchange
You know I’m a fan of Google Apps. You know I’m also a fan of Microsoft. When someone asks me whether they should fully commit their contacts, calendar, and email to Google, I’ll usually say, yes. Sometimes, though not often and because I’m such a Google fan, I’ll recommend that the individual go with a… Continue Reading
Working With Gmail
One (well, two actually) of my office-mates are Apple fanboys. He’s not a tech-geek who obsesses over the latest and greatest devices and systems, he’s just mis-informed. Recently, he ranted and raved about the fact that he’s receiving two of the same emails to his iPhone. He’s integrating and using Gmail to manage his messages and… Continue Reading
Managing Multiple Email Accounts on Your Android Device
Like it or not, email is an everyday part of life for an attorney. You have to be able to deal efficiently with the email problem, and not let its stringy fingers suffocate you. For me, I prefer to manage my email using Gmail or through Google Apps for my business. I love that Google… Continue Reading