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Anyone else get stuck with fixing their familys computer problems? Recently I had a family technical issue that was actually fun to solve and didnt involve removing malware. My family owns Rasmus Auctioneers, a global auctioneer company based in Alexandria, Virginia. The company uses Google Apps for their entire business workflow, so their documents, calendars, etc. are all connected. We manage...

Editor’s Note: This blog post is authored by Dito’s Steve Webster who is a Google Apps Script Top Contributor - Saurabh Gupta Ethics Disclosure Review WorkflowRecently a company who operates retail stores throughout a few states reached out to Dito. When their associates conduct business discussions with vendors or customers where monetary exchanges are involved, their Ethics Disclosure...

Update (August 2014): Try the Yet Another Mail Merge add-on for Google Sheets. Editor’s Note: This blog post is co-authored by James, Steve and Romain who are Google Apps Script top contributors. -- Ryan Boyd The Google Apps Script team is on a roll and has implemented a ton of new features in the last few months. Some of us “Top Contributors” thought it will be a useful exercise to revisit the Mail...

Editors Note: This post was written by Michael Cohn and Steve Ziegler from Cloud Sherpas, a software development and professional services company. SherpaTools™ for Google Apps extends Google Apps capabilities. We invited Cloud Sherpas to share their experiences building an application on top of Google Apps utilizing some of our APIs. Cloud Sherpas will also be participating in the Developer Sandbox at Google I/O this May where theyll be demoing their...

Crowd sourcing has been growing substantially in popularity. More and more businesses and individuals are interested in gathering data from the general public for real-time data analysis and visualization. The concept is being adopted in several fields, including journalism, public health and safety, and business development. During this election year, for example, a journalist might be interested...

On Tuesday we launched the Google Apps Marketplace at Campfire One and were joined by over 50 developers who built some great applications which are now available to the 2 million businesses and 25 million users that use Google Apps. Were just getting started and cant wait to see what other amazing apps are out there.If you already have a great web app or even just an idea for one and would like to learn more about integration with Google Apps, join us for a webinar next Wednesday. Well...

Today was another satisfying day at the conference in sunny (I did see the sun this morning) Orlando. I started the day off with 11 other agilists going for a morning run on the paths and walkways around the Disney complex followed by a great breakfast. The catering at the Dolphin has been fantastic so far.The first of two notable sessions that I attended was called "Effective Questions for an Agile Coach." The two presenters Arto and Sami from Reaktor were great and cleverly crafted the...

Editor’s Note: Guest author Jason Gordon is a co-founder of Beth Macri Designs — Arun Nagarajan Beth Macri Designs creates jewelry from the point of view of a structural engineer. The forms are designed using generative 3D software systems and materialized using 3D printing technologies. Our company understands that to make beautiful fine jewelry, 3D printing is only the first step; traditional jewelry...

Domain administrators can create new users for their domain using the control panel web UI and the Google Apps Provisioning API. Once the new users are created, editing their contact information (such as their addresses, phone numbers, etc) can be done using the Google Apps Profiles API. These profiles are shown to everybody in the organization when searching for users in GMail’s Contacts Manager...

Editor’s Note: Guest author Niels Buekers is a Google Apps consultant at Capgemini Belgium. — Arun Nagarajan During a recent Google Apps migration project, we received several requests to create custom groups of contacts so that users could more easily email frequent collaborators. Before switching to Google Apps, users created their own private distribution lists — but this approach led to overlapping...

Im a big fan of using silent brainstorming in order to generate ideas as individuals before processing those ideas as a group. "Priming" is yet another reason why using silence is important.System 1 & System 2.(Not to be confused with Thing 1 and Thing 2)Im currently reading Daniel Kahnemans book "Thinking, Fast and Slow" - a behavioural psychology and economics book that describes his research...

The Google Apps Marketplace turns one year old today. Over the last year, we’ve seen over 300 business applications join the Apps Marketplace. As a Developer Advocate on the Apps Marketplace, I’ve worked with the developers and product managers of many of these applications to help them understand our APIs and how integrations will help their users.On our first birthday, I want to share some of...

We recently added a new feature to Apps Script: the ability to interact with your Google Docs List. With this new integration, scripts can create, rename, or move files and folders in your Google Docs. In addition, scripts can now create, modify, and clear plain-text files and search through your documents for a specified query string.For instance, take a company whose website is hosted on Google...

LOOKING FORWARD!Looking forward to visit Universiti Kuala Lumpur (UniKL) on 16 December (2014), for the first time. Insya-Allah, my 1-day workshop can inspire a few (or more) UniKLs lecturers to take up the learning transformation challenge. You only need one to spark a transformation.Hmm, I am sure there are already learning transformers at UniKL, so I am also looking forward to discover a few new...