Posted by: Chris Pirillo, Gnomedex Conference founder, video blogger and CNN.com Live technology contributorWe're pleased to welcome back Chris Pirillo for another guest post. After discussing his use of Google Docs to coordinate the Gnomedex conference in his last post, he's here again, this time to offer instructions on how to host a live poll using spreadsheets.The videos I usually record for YouTube are produced live-to-tape. I gather my audience at live.pirillo.com, with an always-on video feed (which is a free service from ustream.tv) and...
Wednesday, 30 April 2008
Friday, 25 April 2008
Posted by: Dave Young, User Experience DesignerThe last few months have been exciting for the presentations team. In January, we added shapes and "Save as PDF" and just recently launched "Save as PPT". Today, we have two new features to tell you about.1. Speaker notes for your presentationsSeasoned presenters keep their slides simple and use slides to help illustrate their points, not to present all of their information. They jot down their talking...
Posted by: Andrew Chang, Marketing ManagerOur initial offline rollout is complete. Done. Finito. You should now see an "Offline" link in the upper right hand corner of Google Docs.When we first announced offline access several weeks ago, it was limited to viewing and editing word processing documents. Now, we've added view-only offline access to spreadsheets and presentations as well.You won't need to worry about an unreliable internet connection as you walk up to the front of the room to give your next presentation. Just click on your Google Docs...
Tuesday, 22 April 2008
Posted by: Matt Doublestein, teacher and earth-friendly Google Docs userRecently, we talked to Matt Doublestein, who told us about how Google Docs helped him save huge amounts of paper, and go effortlessly green. We were impressed, and figured that there's no better way to celebrate Earth Day than by sharing his inspiring story. I am a middle school band director. I teach nearly 300 students each dayand have communication with them and their parents - nearly 1000 people inall. With Google Docs, my program has reduced its paper use by as much...
Thursday, 17 April 2008
Posted by: Chris Pirillo, Gnomedex Conference founder, video blogger and CNN.com Live technology contributorWe're happy to welcome Chris Pirillo as a guest blogger to the Google Docs blog and a featured contributor to the Google Docs Community Channel on YouTube. I founded, and host, an annual conference called Gnomedex, which brings together tech enthusiasts from across the globe, highlighting present and future trends as we see them taking shape. My wife/business partner helps produce it, and we have just hired an event manager...
Monday, 14 April 2008
Posted by: Nick Hodgson, Student, Massey University, New Zealand We welcome Nick Hodgson: creative Google Docs user, and member of the AIESEC support team at Massey University. My name is Nick Hodgson and I use Google Docs as a part of AIESEC, a student-run non-profit that develops leadership skills by running projects in which students and businesses from around the world collaborate.Both my executive team here in Palmerston North, New Zealand,...
Thursday, 10 April 2008
Posted by: Andrew Chang, Marketing ManagerOops. As many of you have noticed, yesterday I accidentally posted my personal to-do list onto this blog. I realized my mistake only when a fellow Googler IM'd me: "any idea what's going on here? Just checked the blog, and there's a new (inexplicable) post." Soon after, I unpublished the post - because I'm assuming that you, our dear readers, aren't too interested in reading about my weekend activities (cleaning...
Posted by: Meredith Whittaker, Program Manager We recently came across Jon Lin, a Canadian out of Alberta who puts Google Docs spreadsheets to work managing and cataloging his commitment to coffee, winning and statistics (great combo, no?). Says Jon, "I'm currently using Google Documents to manage my Tim Hortons [a Canadian coffee chain] Roll Up The Rim statistics for this year. Roll Up The Rim is a contest where customers purchase coffees and then roll up the cup rim to see whether or not they have won a prize. "Google Spreadsheets has...
Tuesday, 8 April 2008
Posted by: Andrew Chang, Marketing ManagerWe believe you should be able to access your presentations however and whenever you want, in whatever format you need. In that vein, today we launched "Save as PPT" which allows you to save presentations as PowerPoint. We now support PDF, PPT, and basic text as export filetypes.Of course, you can also share your presentations in several other ways: invite collaborators and viewers within Docs, publish your...
Monday, 7 April 2008
Posted by: Meredith Whittaker, Program ManagerAll of us who are Google employees use Google Docs at work, and I'm no exception. I really can't remember how I used to cope. (Email multiple copies of the same document? How old-fashioned!)Apart from work, I'm here to tell you about Google Docs in my personal life. It all started when I moved to New York from California a few months ago. I missed my friends, and I was thinking about ways (short of hopping on a plane) to connect with them. Like me, my friends Geraldine and Latas are huge music nerds...
Friday, 4 April 2008
Posted by: Neil Fraser, Flight Dynamics EngineerYou already know that Google Docs facilitates collaboration in many ways: Share a document via email, publish to the web, post to a blog. Now the latest addition is Google Airlines: make your document fly! On April 1st we released a new option to print a template, which, when folded, truly gives your document wings.Michael Arrington of TechCrunch was the first to notice. He suggested posting videos of your airplanes to YouTube. And you did! We were surprised at the variety of airplanes you produced....
Wednesday, 2 April 2008
Posted by: Regina Dinneen, Consumer User OperationsHello faithful Google Docs Blog readers -- I'm Regina, and I work in our Mountain View, California office. I'm a San Francisco native, and when I'm not at work, you can find me playing soccer (or "football") 2-3 nights per week. Another passion is travel and learning about new cultures: I've had the opportunity to live in Japan, South Africa and Ireland. And of course I'm always pushing my friends to give Google Docs a test drive. Recently I got a few of them to try out the new forms feature (big...
Posted by: Meredith Whittaker, Program ManagerSince first launching Google Docs, we've heard from many people who are passionate about using it, and have created their own resources, from help videos to user guides, to help others work smarter with Google Docs.And now, we're unveiling the Google Docs Community Channel on YouTube to showcase all the great videos you create about how to use Google Docs. What you'll see here is skill and passion expressed in video.Foreign language teacher Stephan Rinke put together an introduction to Google Docs for...
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