Create surveys with Google Docs A common use case for Google Docs is to create a spreadsheet and circulate the link to collect data. For instance, you might create a spreadsheet to collect your colleagues' preferred dates and topics for a guest speaker. Instead of giving everyone access to your spreadsheet, you can now create a form in your spreadsheet and send it out to anyone with an email address (not just Google Apps users). Read more at the Google Docs Blog post: http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2008/02/stop-sharing-spreadsheets-start.html.   More Docs printing options Understanding that the key to printing documents is proper formatting, and Google has added PDF-based printing to Google Docs. Go to File -> Print, select how many slides you'd like on a page (up to 12), and preview your choice. You'll see exactly what the printed version will look like in your preview window.

Google has recently announced the addition of Google Sites to Google Apps. How is this different from Google Web Pages that was previously included in Google Apps? Well, one thing to know is that it doesn't replace Google Web Pages, it exists in addition to it. However I think most of our customers will find the extra versatility of Google Sites will make using Google Web Pages a thing of the past. One of the first new features is that you can set domain-wide standards for sharing site pages just like you do for docs.  This can be a powerful feature, allowing you to truly create a secure intranet or making the site public to all or any of the other options between these two extremes shown in the screen capture above. When you create a new site within your Google Apps domain, you'll find that you have the option to set the sharing for this page. The choices you made at the corporate level will determine the options that show up when you create a new page. If you've selected the most restrictive option in the configuration, you'll see this when you create a new site: while if you selected to allow users to make the sites public,  you'll see . In addition to creating single or two column layouts based on a number of different themes, this tool also has some great Inserts that you can use to spice up your pages. Here is a screenshot of the current offerings: For those of you looking to use this as an intranet, this is probably the closest thing, so far, to getting a Gdrive for Google Apps. With 10GB of storage with all levels of of Google Apps (with an additional 500MB for each user in the premium and education versions), you've got plenty of room to post PDFs or other items to share with your users that just can't be done in the world of Google Docs. The only downside is that you are limited to no more than 10MB per file so this probably isn't the best place to be sharing your music collections with the users in your domain.   Want to get this set up on your site? You can turn this on for yourself by going to the administrative control panel found at https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/yourdomainname.com and clicking on the "Add more services" link.  Some of you may find that you already have the Google Sites icon active on your home page since recently a portion of the Google Apps setup allows you to choose to . If this was turned on for your domain, you should find that this feature is automatically enabled on your Google Apps setup. If you'd like assistance setting this up on your Google Apps, we can make the required DNS changes and turn on this feature for you if you'd like for a low one-time fee.

Check out the status of the next version of EMM. We've now successfully integrated a WYSIWYG editor into EMM. [More]

Or How I learned to love Google Page Creator... almost. I've had my first GASS clients decide they want to use this feature of Google Apps so I'm having to learn more about it. It is a nice little hosting plan with a simplified interface for editing HTML pages. Not bad for the price but not suitable for a lot of customers. In looking at this more, I ran across these links that I thought might be of interest to people. Here are some GPC links of interest to those who use this feature: Google Page Creator Tips and Tricks - http://gpc.tipstricks.googlepages.com/background.html Google Page Creator FAQ - http://rami.mawas.googlepages.com/gpcfaq Google Page Creator Help - http://rami.mawas.googlepages.com/gpc Google Page Creator Tips - http://rami.mawas.googlepages.com/gpctips Google Page Creator Guide - http://rami.mawas.googlepages.com/gpcguide Google Pages Guide Group - http://groups.google.com/group/GooglePagesGuide Unofficial Google Page Creator FAQ - http://gooappfaq.googlepages.com/pagecreator Google Page Creator - Tools for Webmasters - http://jvanbaelen.googlepages.com/gpcinfo.html

Well, we've gotten the GASS product product listed up on Google's Enterprise Solutions Gallery... and now we're proud to announce something similar for EMM... We are now listed on the ASPDotNetStorefront Marketplace page! Hopefully in the near future, we'll also have more information to share about another location where EMM will be profiled. The more people we get exposed to the application, the more we get them using it. The more we get using it, the more improvements we'll be able to offer so buy early and buy often!

plans are on for Enhanced Mail Manager (EMM) for ASPDNSF 1.0.0.1 to be released no later than the end of February (yikes, now that I've committed to this in writing, I'd better get on the stick). This next release will include the following features: Freely downloadable demonstration copy available WYSIWYG Editor support for the creation of the HTML portion of an email campaign Support for newsletter sign ups from the website. Site administrator would control the following AppConfig settings: Is newsletter sign up single or double opt in? (defaults to double opt in) Will newsletter sign ups be added as new ASPDNSF customers or as records in the external customers database? (defaults to customer records) Will sign up form force the collection of first and last names? (default is yes) If anyone has thoughts or comments on how features they'd like to see added to the EMM application, please use our Contact Us form or by leaving a comment below or by leaving your recommendation in the EMM support forum.