Jul
13
Google Love
Filed Under Blog Posts, Google
This is just a little note expressing how useful the various Google features have been for me in both my personal and professional life. I have been using many of them since we learned about them in class and thought I would do just a little spotlight on how they’ve helped me.
Docs:
- truly a lifesaver
- Use this for class documents, saving them on Google rather than on a zip drive that may end up who knows where or in an email
- Use them at work for my boss and I to keep track of our on-call nanny schedules (we have about 500 on-call nanny hours per month and we use this to track which nanny is with which family when and to verify billing; since families are constantly scheduling new dates this is a great way for us to both have the most up-to-date schedule)
Reader:
- personal and professional
- I read a lot and this has saved me so much time! I don’t have to check blogs or sites for new articles, it just comes straight to me
Calendar:
- You can upload your Outlook calendar and view it from home! This is great for me because I always forget what’s on my work calendar when I’m at home
- I can also have both work and personal in one calendar
- I can make work event public so my boss can see when I have meetings and/or class – this is helpful if she’s scheduling a meeting for me, I’m not currently available, and she needs to know when to schedule.
Shopping:
- sort of wish I had never learned about this as I’m tempted by it all the time now
- It’s been really helpful as I’m price shopping for several items for the house like a bookshelf and end-of-bed storage bench
- I don’t have time to drive around and compare prices or how things look – in fact most of the shopping I do is online since I can’t do it during the work day and we travel a lot on the weekends
Gmail:
- Have been a Gmail user for years now – I love how it saves replies as conversations all together
Groups:
- I set one of these up for the bridesmaids for the wedding I’m in this summer…it’s been really helpful for planning.
To sum things up, thank you Google…and thank you Tom for showing me how to use Google more than just to search!
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