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7 Google Calendar tips to make the most of your day

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Time is precious especially when you’re working from home and balancing work and family. The less time you spend fussing with tasks like scheduling, searching for a meeting code or switching from app to app, the more time you can spend on things that matter.  Google Calendar is filled with intuitive tools and tightly integrated with other G Suite apps including Gmail, Meet, Drive, Contacts and Sites to help you stay on top of your day-to-day schedule. Here seven tips, tricks and features that will help you plot a course for your day. Find a meeting time that works for everyone Finding a time when everyone can meet can feel like a tricky game of Tetris when you need to consider childcare, time zone differences and other meetings. With Google Calendar, you have a helping hand to figure out when someone’s availability intersects with yours.  Here’s how to do it: In Calendar, click on Search for people on the left, type in the name of someone you want to meet with. If they’re part...

The Role Play of GOOGLE DRIVE for video uploading : Exclusive - Tech Thursday

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If your business or company uses Gsuite - You may have experienced that once you upload your videos in to the drive it will play online. Google Drive uses the YouTube engine to play uploaded videos. When playing a Google Drive video, the interface has the appearance of a slimmed down version of the YouTube player.Simply it will automatically get inter connected with youtube or vimeo once you upload videos in to your drive. A video file can be uploaded to Google Drive just as any other file would be – by selecting  New > File Upload  or by dragging and dropping one or more files into a folder.  For example, a video can be shared with just one other Google Drive user. Another sharing option is that a video or video folder can be accessed by anyone who has the link — this option is similar to the “unlisted” setting in YouTube. Uploading Video Files to Google Drive? There are several business use cases for Google Drive videos. 1. Allow others to review a ...

Email security and data privacy : [ Exclusive ]

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The topic of email security is all too frequently in the news. On September 22, 2016, the story broke that data associated with 500 million Yahoo! email accounts had been stolen in 2014. There are many reasons why hackers spend their time trying to infiltrate email servers and email clients. Sometimes it’s to steal intellectual property.  Other times it’s to steal physical property. It can even be for the purpose of influencing public opinion about a political candidate or another type of public figure. For a company that makes the decision to use a cloud-based email and data storage system such as G Suite, what are the assurances that company email and other data is not only secure from outside attackers, including those that rely on users clicking something they shouldn’t? Google has published a 23 page document called Google for Work Security and Compliance Whitepaper ( Click here to view .) Unless you’re an IT professional, the details i...

12 Reasons to Move Your Business From Free Gmail to G Suite

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Let’s say you’ve been using free Gmail accounts for your business communications. Your email addresses may resemble one or more of these: Pubudu@gmail.com Sampath@gmail.com Manjula@gmail.com Your employees may even be using assorted Yahoo Mail and cable company email addresses for business purposes. However, your business is growing and/or you want to start to use more professional looking email addresses such as: Here are twelve additional reasons to consider a move to G Suite. 1. Email Account Ownership Your company owns all employee email accounts.What if someone were to leave your company to work for a competitor or to start a competing company, but they personally own the email address that your customers use to contact them? Within G Suite administration, if someone leaves the company, you can immediately change that person’s password and forward any emails sent to their address to someone else. You can also access all of that person’s email history. 2. Fil...