It is best practice for employees to generally send mail from their own work account. This provides better accountability and communications. For example, if an email advertising a new feature or service comes from sales@acmedistributors.com, the recipient may not...
You should all have an email account provisioned for you and received an email welcoming you to your new email account. A link to your personal email address should contain your temporary password which you will need to change when you first log in. You can change...
From a web browser, there are 2 ways to access the Shared Drive: From Gmail or any other Google app, you can access the “Waffle Menu” and simply choose Drive: Or you can go to https://drive.google.com to get to the same place. You might want to bookmark this. From...
Have any of these scenarios happened to you? An employee loses their laptop or tablet, or has it stolen while working at a coffee shop or stepping out of their car at a convenience store. An employee or one of their children downloads a "neat game" on the internet...
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Google Voice is just rolling out to Canada. What is it? It's a phone service that integrates with your existing Google Workspace tools and apps. What if you could call or answer your phone from your computer, your tablet, your smartphone, and even a desk phone (if you...
As a Google Workspace user, you have up to 2 Tb of space in your Google Drive. That’s more than most people can use in a lifetime. Of course you can use this to share documents with your clients, vendors, and partners. It’s really quite easy and in this short...
Ever tried repeated searches for a specific email or file in Gmail or Drive? The results that Google returns aren’t always helpful. Wouldn’t it be nice if Google could learn from your past searches and better predict what you might want to find this time? Google...
A Tale of Two Messages I sent out two identical messages that arrived in the receiver's mailbox. The first (the one on the left) ended up in the recipient's Junk E-mail folder. When the recipient opened it using Gmail on an Android phone, they saw a very concerning...
Like many businesses, maybe yours is moving to a permanent Hybrid work environment--one where some people work from home, some out of the office, and possible some work both places or from their neighbourhood Starbucks. Your documents are on everyone's computers,...
Google Meet has a very different philosophy from the Zoom platform. Google values "Collaboration Equity." Google defines this as, "the ability for everyone to contribute regardless of location, role, experience level, language, and device preference." What does this...
Google is making massive changes to Workspace over the coming months. Google is a phenomenally innovative company when it comes to technology but seems to struggle when it comes to marketing slogans. This might explain which it chose to call this initiative "smart...