Upgraded Features in Google Spreadsheets

Google Drive is a cloud storage and Document creation system. Within Google Drive you have the ability to upload your files or to create Documents, Presentations, Spreadsheets and a lot more.

"Create new documents, spreadsheets, and presentations on your own or share and collaborate with others in real time. All your changes are saved automatically in Drive. There isn't even a save button. Open and edit Microsoft® Office documents, spreadsheets, and presentations on your phone or tablet."

Sheets or Spreadsheet has just recently been updated with a number of new / improved features;-




Learn more about Google Drive here

Hour of Code.. jump in

just an hour - get with it people.. !
Join millions of others at:  http://code.org.

.. but most importantly reach out to your local School or College or University.. tell them the future is in the Now..


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BYOD and smartphones

BYOD and smartphones in general can be a real issue from a security perspective, fortunately with a Google Apps for Business account you can track, block, and wipe lost or stolen phones.

Google say;-
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A dedicated business email address establishes your company's credibility and builds brand awareness. Learn more at www.gybo.com/friday15 Benefits of a business email address - Establish credibility.When readers see that your email address (yourname@organiccity.com) and website domain (www.organiccity.com) match, they know they're receiving an official communication from your business. - You're a team! All employees can use the same domain in their emails. - Create multiple addresses like info@organiccity.com or sales@organiccity.com to organize emails. - Raise awareness of your brand. Your company will be associated with each correspondence. The Friday 15 small business series is presented by Google's Get Your Business Online program.

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Memeonics is an approved Supplier under GCloud4

Memeonics Ltd is an approved Supplier under the GCloud Framework for Public sector bodies in the UK purchasing Software as a Service (SaaS).

To visit our custom
GCloud Demonstration site

click on the link above or on either of the graphics.




Author: Des Donnelly

Gmail - Managing that Inbox

Simple tips for managing your inbox in Gmail so it's always empty.


..more tips via the Google Apps Learning Center:

http://learn.googleapps.com/apps-in-a...


Author: Des Donnelly

Quickoffice App Free Offer Android and iOS users

Google Apps is dedicated to ensuring you can access your documents, files, and apps anytime, anywhere, and from any mobile device. With the free Quickoffice app for both Android and iOS users you can do just that. As an added bonus, if you sign in to your Google Account from the Quickoffice app by September 26th, you get 10 GB of extra storage space for 2 years. 

Get the App;-


On Google Play  |  On Apple

Author: Des Donnelly

Freshbooks App for Android

FreshBooks provide a robust, secure online invoicing solution for your small business. 

Try Freshbooks Free for a month

We are Freshbooks aficionados and work with clients on deployments and customisations so we are delighted to see the new Freshbooks App for Android just released this week

With the new Android App run your business from anywhere!

Read the full article here  |  Get the App here  |  Contact us to set up Freshbooks for you

Invoicing at your fingertips

Track time on the go

Author: Des Donnelly

Android Offline Translation

This is an old story (March 2013) but in mentioning offline translation to clients (who are on holiday) it is surprising how many do not know about offline translation for Android;-

Get the App here on Google Play 

At the time Google said;-

"Today we're launching offline language packages for Google Translate on Android (2.3 and above) with support for fifty languages, from French and Spanish to Chinese and Arabic."

Read the full article here

..taitneamh a bhaint as do laethanta saoire  :-)

Author: Des Donnelly

Essential Interview Questions ;-)

Author: Des Donnelly

Key Resources for those Going / Gone Google

When using Google Apps for Business it is useful to be aware of key resources that address current Apps Status and Known Issues. There are extensive resources to assist you and your users throughout the change management process. 

For overall performance information on Google Apps services, please see the Apps Status Dashboard. and to see what material is available for support see  Resources

From the Apps Documentation & Support  page there is a wide range of 'How To's' and 'Fix An Issue' articles.

Setup & deployment has sub-sections covering;-
 User Resources  |  Deployment Webinars  |  Change management  |  Partner Directory

For General issues & solutions  |  For Known Issues

If you are experiencing a problem related to Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Postini, Google+, or Hangouts, click the name of the product to go to the product-specific Known Issues page.

For those considering Going Google  visit the Google Enterprise site  or have a look at the  Demo page  to see what it is like to use a Google Doc - or read more about Why to go Google from Memeonics. 

Author: Des Donnelly

Grade Heaven - for Teachers that is :-)

Flubaroo is a free tool that helps you quickly grade multiple-choice or fill-in-blank assignments. Dave Abouav designed it for his own classroom, and wants to share it with other teachers... for free!

See the Overview




Googe Apps is Free for Education, if you are not using it or want to know more about it email Des Donnelly.

Author: Des Donnelly

Newly Released Google Databoard.

Google say;-
"Need some stats for a presentation? You shouldn’t have to go data mining. We’ve created this interactive tool to help you quickly find what you need from our vast archives of industry-leading research."

Read more about Google Databoard   or  Try It Now

 


Author: Des Donnelly

Happy Small Business Week

In America more than 60 percent of new jobs each year come from small businesses.

See the Happy Small Business Week page

Check out Google+ Your Business page



or if you are in San Francisco just go and have a decent coffee at PhilzCoffee  :-)

Author: Des Donnelly

Atmosphere London 2013 - Amit Singh, keynote

Hear Amit Singh, President, Google Enterprise, exploring why customers and employees are changing the way organisations work in the opening keynote.



Link to overall programme - Relive the day


Author: Des Donnelly

Ocado Goes Google

Ocado Delivers Your Groceries with Automation... and the help of Google technology

Ocado is the world's largest online only grocery store. While their primary focus is getting your groceries from your online order to your door in excellent condition, they continue to push the limits of what technology can do to automate and scale their business.



Read the full article here

happy birthday to us :-)

Memeonics.com is 13 years old today so we are wishing ourselves happy birthday :-)

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The new Google Maps

Read the full article here and request an invite

The new Google Maps draws you a tailored map for every search and click you make. So whatever you're trying to find or wherever you're trying to go, you'll always have a map highlighting the things that matter most.

Save Directly to Google Drive Button

Visitors to your website can now use the Save to Drive button to save files directly to their Google Drive folder, no doubt companies will start to enable the button on their sites;-

Try it out Bigstock and click on the Save to Drive button - http://www.bigstockphoto.com/image-35152352/stock-photo-motor-show

More
To read the full announcement on Google blog;-
http://googledevelopers.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/an-easier-way-to-save-files-to-google.html

To use the Save to Drive button’s JavaScript API, which allows programmatic and flexible control of the creation of Save to Drive buttons in your web pages see;-
https://developers.google.com/drive/savetodrive#javascript_api

Read the technical documentation;-
https://developers.google.com/drive/savetodrive

Professional email versus Amateur email in the Age of Now

We are living in The Age of Now - find almost anything on your phone or mobile device;-

• buy it
• sell it
• invoice it
• compare it
• map it
• ticket it
• pay for it !

Does your provider say you cannot access email across multiples devices or via mobile or smartphone, does your remote email look like something out of Star Trek in 1966 - really cool and advanced, for that era.

Does your business email look like  firstnameLastname77@yahoo.com  or MyCompanyName@hotmail.com 

In marketing and promotion terms amateur email does not present your business in a professional light, it also sends a message about your level of tech savvy.

There are over 400 million Google mail users worldwide and via Google Apps for Business you can have the same feature rich system for your business for $5 per user per month. 

For the one woman / one man band you get the advantage of  being able to create up to 30 aliases  e.g. sales, accounts, info - these aliases can be used to filter your email thus acting in the role of virtual assistant. You can access it with any device, you have 25gb of space, you have access to Documents, Spreadsheets, Presentations via Google Drive, plus Google Sites, Calendar and a range of other features.

The primary aspect is permanence, with your own domain and industrial grade email provision you get 99.9% uptime guarantee. When you create sales@TheNameofYourBusiness.com   it will work for you actively over time, since the address is permanent, i.e. you own it, you control it. The same address means incoming enquiries are never lost, even if they originate from old sales campaigns;-

• via advertising
• via print media
• via video ads
• business cards
• on vehicles.. 
• even just by intuition 

with prospective customers assuming
1. you Must have sales@thenameofyourbusiness.com
2. you are monitoring it for Sales :-)

Adopting the web, creating a website and using Google for your Email is not rocket science despite the number of rocket engineers out there. There are essentially 3 Elements;-

Element 1 - the domain name is or has been purchased from a Registrar

To Read more about DNS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System

Element 2 - the MX component of DNS settings control how your email is processed.

To Read more about MX records http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en-uk&hlrm=en&answer=174125

Element 3 - organise a website or web presence 

Read more about Google Sites http://www.google.com/sites/help/intl/en/overview.html

To find out more or to set up a trial  Contact Us

Enable Google Now Search App for Android/IOS

This is for Google Apps for Business customers.. Join Us :-)
Go to Dashboard / to Settings / to Mobile / tick Enable Google Now.. that's it done
Read more about Now.. now! http://www.google.com/landing/now/

10 things you can do with Gmail / Google Apps for Business

Customers are often amazed at the features Gmail and Google Apps for Business provides right out of the box, here are 10;-

1. Undo Send - undo or recall an email for up to 30 seconds. 
2. Auto translate - translate incoming messages automatically. 
3. Preview Google Docs - without leaving Gmail, e.g. contact form data. 
4. See your Calendar in the left hand navigation panel 
5. See your Quick Links (regular things you search for) in the left hand navigation panel 
6. See your most recent Google Docs in the left hand navigation panel 
7. Delegate your email to an assistant 
8. Remove bad language - even from yourself  ;-)
9. Remove prohibited attachments, e.g. mp3, or other file types on your watch list 
10. Auto forward to a colleague based on a filter 

Learn more about Gmail Features

Sign up for our monthly Newsletter  containing tips and tricks on how to get the most from your Google Apps for Business set-up or  email us directly  to learn how to implement a feature mentioned here.

Google Keep for Android

Google Keep, a new Android app to save ideas and organize to-dos the moment they happen. With Google Keep you can create notes, lists, photos and voice recordings right from your phone.

Google Keep is available on Google Play for devices running Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich and above. You can access, edit and create new notes on the web at  http://drive.google.com/keep  and in the coming weeks you'll be able to do the same directly from Google Drive.

Get it @ Play  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.keep

Google Apps - No set-up fees or charges for Start-ups, One Woman / One Man bands

Irish based Memeonics Ltd will set-up and configure Google Apps for Business for Start-ups, One Woman, One Man bands for free. We will;-

• Modify your DNS record to use Google's mail servers. (Assist & advise you with domain registration, if required)
• Configure your web domain in Google Apps dashboard
• Customise URLs for accessing your email, calendar, docs and sites. (eg docs.yoursite.com)
• Install your logo to brand the email in your company name
• Configure advanced email security SPF & DKIM
• Google sites configuration including creation of Webmaster and Analyics accounts
• 30 Day deployment support & expert advice from Memeonics 

Notifications in Apps Panel

The Alerts & Notifications box in the admin control panel has now been replaced with a new Notifications Inbox. This new feature can be accessed by clicking on the bell icon on the top right. Admins now have the ability to see the number of available notifications. They can also dismiss notifications that aren’t important.

Preview Files in Google Drive

Preview files in Google Drive by right clicking and selecting Preview - use the arrows left or right to 'scroll' from document to document or image to image in a folder and use the the mouse wheel to scroll 'down ' from page to page within a document.

Document refers to the broad range of file types you can store, access and otherwise use on Drive and can be a pdf or a Word document.

You can use Ctrl C to copy text from within documents in this preview mode and also use the zoom at the bottom right to increase or decrease the view.

This feature is available to customers on Rapid Release.


Read the full post on the Google Enterprise Blog  or read more about Viewing images, videos, documents, and other files in Drive

Gmail Search

You can use the search bar in Gmail to search just like you do using Google search;-

Gmail Search

The awesomeness of Gmail Search !



There are a wide range of operators possible with Search - view an article on Advanced Search here
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New version of the Google Docs Forms Editor

Forms allow you to create questionnaires or contact data from the web and then view the responses in a spreadsheet. A new version of the forms editor launched Jan 30th.

Availability of this update depends on whether you are on Rapid Release (over the next few days) or Scheduled Release (in the coming weeks). You can create forms directly from Google Spreadsheet or Drive, or install the Chrome Web App  for easy access from your browser.

Tips & Tricks...

Man versus The World

Brilliant video from Steve Cutts   a freelance London artist - animation, illustration & fine art. Here is his Youtube channel

It would be more palatable to be able to say 'welcome to the future' in the vain hope that our direction will change but we are already here, alas.. :-(

Go Google With Memeonics

Go Google™ with Northern Ireland based Memeonics Ltd - internet solutions for small, medium and large business.  

January Offer

No set up fees for companies / organisations of up to 100 user accounts. *Offer Valid  for 30 days, to 31/Jan/13 and does not include migration of old email.

Google Apps™ - What is The Big Deal ?  

• no more expensive servers or firewall, 
• no more upgrades, patches or licenses
• use any device, anywhere, anytime
• 1 screen for email, docs, calendar, G+ & more
• only pay for what you use 
• add & take away accounts without penalty
• ideal for start-ups & one woman bands

Act now for reduced IT costs, improved productivity and better collaboration - Send us your enquiry today

Better Productivity

Access your emails, calendar, documents and spreadsheets when travelling; via your phone, iPad, laptop or any computer with internet access. 

• Delegate access to your mailbox to your assistant. 
• Talk directly with your colleagues via hangouts on Google+
• Translate email with one click
• & dozens more time saving & collaborative features

"Bring your business to life: create a 360-degree, interactive tour."

Google Business photos are a tremendous way to attract customers to your business, be it a restaurant  hotel, bar or other retail establishment catering to the public. Memeonics will shortly be launching our business photographic service available for clients in Ireland, north and south.

To receive more information please complete our contact form.

Read more about Google Business photos

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Happy New ~Year :-)

... to all our customers and visitors!

Beannachtaí

Greetings

Salutations, 

Saludos, 

Kveðjur

问候, 

Selamlar, 

Saluti

Groeten, 

Saudações, 

Gruß,

 શુભેચ્છાઓ, 

Pozdrowienia, 

Hilsner...