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10 More Suggestions for Google Apps

November 22, 2009 |  Tagged , | 1 Comment

In a previous post, I laid out ten ideas for making Google docs better. Here are ten more. Feel free to contribute to the list!google-docs-good-logo

  1. Invitations to meetings in the calendar view are too subtle. I mean really, do you expect me to see that tiny question mark?
  2. I like that you add email addresses automatically for me. That’s cool. What would be even cooler, would be to scan the message for additional address-like data (like that in most signature files), open a window in my contacts, and add that data too, allowing me to edit as needed.
  3. When you add a new document folder in Google Docs, the list should automatically refresh to reflect the new alphabetical order.
  4. There’s no way for end users to see who is in an enterprise-wide email group, so what we do is to maintain a separate Google doc which, of course, needs to be updated every time we make a group address change. We shouldn’t have to do that. Let the administrator determine who has rights to view the members of an email group.
  5. In Google Sites, you should offer a report to the site owner about dead links, and automatically fix links to other Google sites within the enterprise if and when they change.
  6. While you’re at it in Google Sites, allow the webmaster or users to tag individual pages, to then crate tag clouds.
  7. All, and I mean all, of your K-12 Google docs customers would benefit from a better calendar. Start with allowing the administrator to setup a daily schedule for the school that can be toggled on-and-off by users so they can easily schedule events by time of day or by period of day.
  8. Any color (labels, calendars, and so on) would benefit by being able to control their transparency. Solid color are not only passé, they hinder multiple calendars within the same view.
  9. Google To Do lists are lame. See Remember the Milk for some ideas about getting it better.
  10. Appreciate the fact that we can upload PDF documents into Google Docs. Now, make them editable! :-)

What’s on your mind about Google docs?


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  1.    Manish Malik on December 19, 2009 5:40 am

    One term that can is begining to take meaning is Cloud Learning Environment – examples include Google Apps for Educational Institutions. This is paperless, boundary or borderless and also the control of the learning environment is with the learners and academics.

    I have detailed my recent experiences and that of my students with Google Apps / Cloud Learning Environment here:

    http://edublend.blogspot.com/2009/12/cloud-learning-environment-what-it-is.html

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