Google Moderator is a new (beta like most everything else out of Google) product from the boffins at Google Labs. This is a great tool for collecting questions or ideas and votes on questions from a group of people. True to Google?s credo of ?eating one?s own dog food? (or DogFooding), they are using this to collect ideas and votes from Apps administrators.
You?ll find a link in the left column of the Google Apps Admin Help called Suggest a Feature that will take you to their moderator app. When you sign in, you can suggest new features, view the suggestions of others and vote Yeah or Nay on them.
This is a great way to do brainstorming in your organization and to keep a permanent record of the conversation. Set up a Moderated Series and open it up to your whole company. After a set period of time to collect the best and the brightest ideas in a on online Greenlight session. You can then have the group (or a subset of the group) go back and vote on the ideas to see what gets the most traction.
Other Labs features available are Google Code Reviews and Google Short Links.
If you need assistance in setting up Google Moderator for your Google Apps account, please reach out and contact us for an appointment to set this up.
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At Over The Top and Exhibit A Communications, I've programmed solutions for Google as well as at least one other company that was later acquired by Google.
I've been CTO of an Internet SaaS company and spent my time pretty evenly between guiding the future technical strategy of the company, architecting software solutions for my dev teams, designing and running a data center to service our clients world-wide as well as being a technical evangalist/sales engineer to our media clients large and small.
I've also been Chief Photographer of the Daily Sun/Post newspaper back when it was a 5-day a week daily newspaper.
I also spent a great many years as a beach lifeguardfor the City of San Clemente as well as Jr. Lifeguard instructor and then as it's program coordinator.
Bragging rights
Private Pilot with Instrument rating and proud husband of soon to be 25 years (and counting).
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