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Engineered for your enterprise. </div> </div> </div></div> </div> </div>  <div class='cols-wrapper loading'> <div class='col-main-wrapper'> <div class='col-main'> <div class='section' id='main'><div class='widget Blog' data-version='1' id='Blog1'> <div class='post' data-id='4589778673592576250' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/11/setting-stage-for-success-how-new-smbs.html' itemprop='url' title='Setting the stage for success: How new SMBs use the cloud'> Setting the stage for success: How new SMBs use the cloud </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Monday, November 17, 2014 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Kevin Ackhurst Managing Director, Australia and New Zealand, Google For Work</span> <br /> <br /> Starting a business requires passion, dedication, and a clear vision—and powerful tools that help entrepreneurs bring their ideas to life. In September, we <a href="http://googleforwork.blogspot.com/2014/09/small-business-big-technology-how-cloud.html" target="_blank">shared the results of a new Deloitte report</a> that showed that companies using an above-average number of cloud services grow 26% faster and drive 21% more profit than those that use no cloud tools.<br /> <br /> Now we’ve teamed up with international research agency GfK to study cloud adoption among new SMBs—those established up to three years ago—in Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan. Like their peers on the other side of the globe, these businesses are using the cloud as a tool for growth. Here are a few of the key insights we uncovered:<br /> <br /> <b>Most new SMBs are cloud users.</b> 77% of companies that participated in the study have adopted cloud services. Cloud technology tends to be easy to set up and manage, so new business owners can let their IT run itself and instead focus their time on the work that matters . <br /> <br /> <b>New SMBs that take advantage of the cloud envision a brighter future.</b> 70% of companies that use cloud services expect revenue to increase over the next 12 months, compared to 48% of businesses that don’t. Like the Deloitte study, these results point to a correlation between cloud adoption and fast growth.<br /> <br /> <b>Cloud services can help new SMBs build their brand. </b>72% of companies that adopted a custom email, like <a href="mailto:name@yourcomany.com">name@yourcomany.com</a>, saw an increase in engagement and 74% saw an uplift in sales. Small businesses rely on the use of cloud services to get up and running quickly, and professional email addresses for domains are a common first step. <br /> <br /> Getting a new business off the ground is always challenging, and building momentum in the early years can be even harder. Our latest research suggests that cloud services can help young companies build further engagement with customers, drive sales and set the business up for growth. <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTl-xr8R_vYK8C89ZsplZZwVwUhfdbnv-fQuNvQvgOgx-HcUEBEB20ZuQfVQaYvyBl_2CTNsKVn7e6n3LkgTQXqR8OWmPB-OxgG4iDtU9Z4UCDM0xKBnd4k8HndpUKT7ATPHjAvaN8L-w/s1600/140915-Google-NewBiz-ra-2-01+(1).png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTl-xr8R_vYK8C89ZsplZZwVwUhfdbnv-fQuNvQvgOgx-HcUEBEB20ZuQfVQaYvyBl_2CTNsKVn7e6n3LkgTQXqR8OWmPB-OxgG4iDtU9Z4UCDM0xKBnd4k8HndpUKT7ATPHjAvaN8L-w/s1600/140915-Google-NewBiz-ra-2-01+(1).png" width="534" /></a></div> <br /></div> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Kevin Ackhurst Managing Director, Australia and New Zealand, Google For Work</span> <br /> <br /> Starting a business requires passion, dedication, and a clear vision—and powerful tools that help entrepreneurs bring their ideas to life. In September, we <a href="http://googleforwork.blogspot.com/2014/09/small-business-big-technology-how-cloud.html" target="_blank">shared the results of a new Deloitte report</a> that showed that companies using an above-average number of cloud services grow 26% faster and drive 21% more profit than those that use no cloud tools.<br /> <br /> Now we’ve teamed up with international research agency GfK to study cloud adoption among new SMBs—those established up to three years ago—in Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan. Like their peers on the other side of the globe, these businesses are using the cloud as a tool for growth. Here are a few of the key insights we uncovered:<br /> <br /> <b>Most new SMBs are cloud users.</b> 77% of companies that participated in the study have adopted cloud services. Cloud technology tends to be easy to set up and manage, so new business owners can let their IT run itself and instead focus their time on the work that matters . <br /> <br /> <b>New SMBs that take advantage of the cloud envision a brighter future.</b> 70% of companies that use cloud services expect revenue to increase over the next 12 months, compared to 48% of businesses that don’t. Like the Deloitte study, these results point to a correlation between cloud adoption and fast growth.<br /> <br /> <b>Cloud services can help new SMBs build their brand. </b>72% of companies that adopted a custom email, like <a href="mailto:name@yourcomany.com">name@yourcomany.com</a>, saw an increase in engagement and 74% saw an uplift in sales. Small businesses rely on the use of cloud services to get up and running quickly, and professional email addresses for domains are a common first step. <br /> <br /> Getting a new business off the ground is always challenging, and building momentum in the early years can be even harder. Our latest research suggests that cloud services can help young companies build further engagement with customers, drive sales and set the business up for growth. <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTl-xr8R_vYK8C89ZsplZZwVwUhfdbnv-fQuNvQvgOgx-HcUEBEB20ZuQfVQaYvyBl_2CTNsKVn7e6n3LkgTQXqR8OWmPB-OxgG4iDtU9Z4UCDM0xKBnd4k8HndpUKT7ATPHjAvaN8L-w/s1600/140915-Google-NewBiz-ra-2-01+(1).png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTl-xr8R_vYK8C89ZsplZZwVwUhfdbnv-fQuNvQvgOgx-HcUEBEB20ZuQfVQaYvyBl_2CTNsKVn7e6n3LkgTQXqR8OWmPB-OxgG4iDtU9Z4UCDM0xKBnd4k8HndpUKT7ATPHjAvaN8L-w/s1600/140915-Google-NewBiz-ra-2-01+(1).png" width="534" /></a></div> <br /></div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/11/setting-stage-for-success-how-new-smbs.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Setting the stage for success: How new SMBs use the cloud&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/11/setting-stage-for-success-how-new-smbs.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/11/setting-stage-for-success-how-new-smbs.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='4' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/11/setting-stage-for-success-how-new-smbs.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/11/setting-stage-for-success-how-new-smbs.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2014/11/setting-stage-for-success-how-new-smbs.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Asia%20Pacific' rel='tag'> Asia Pacific </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/small%20business' rel='tag'> small business </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Small%20businesses' rel='tag'> Small businesses </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='472488645260685896' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/06/celebrating-entrepreneurship-with.html' itemprop='url' title='Celebrating entrepreneurship with Chrome business apps '> Celebrating entrepreneurship with Chrome business apps </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Tuesday, June 18, 2013 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author">Posted by Bonny Lau, Product Manager, Chrome for Business and Education</span><br /><br /><i><b>Editor's note:</b> As part of our series focused on celebrating <a href="http://www.sba.gov/nsbw/nsbw" target="_blank">National Small Business Week</a>, we are featuring stories, tools and resources that can help small businesses grow and innovate.</i><br /><br />American entrepreneurs have good reason to celebrate this week -- it’s National Small Business Week. Entrepreneurs all over the world, like you, have a knack for wearing many hats, being scrappy and spotting new opportunities. And the tools you use should be intuitive, scale quickly and easily, and offer ubiquitous accessibility. <br /><br />Luckily, many business web apps today are perfect for small and growing businesses. <a href="//www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/webstore/business-apps-manage.html?utm_source=0613entblogsmbapps&utm_medium=blog" target="_blank">Accounting apps</a> are intuitive enough to be used by someone without a CPA. <a href="//www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/webstore/business-apps-connect.html?utm_source=0613entblogsmbapps&utm_medium=blog#podio" target="_blank">Managing customers</a> comes with pricing that scales as your business grows. And your <a href="//www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/webstore/business-apps-connect.html?utm_source=0613entblogsmbapps&utm_medium=blog#hootsuite" target="_blank">social media management</a> and <a href="//www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/webstore/business-apps-connect.html?utm_source=0613entblogsmbapps&utm_medium=blog#mailchimp" target="_blank">email campaign</a> tools can work with each other via clever APIs. Best of all, you and your team can use these web apps anywhere, from any computer. <br /><br />In honor of National Small Business Week, we’re featuring a <a href="//www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/webstore/business-apps-connect.html?utm_source=0613entblogsmbapps&utm_medium=blog" target="_blank">curated list</a> of some of our favorite business apps and extensions from the Chrome Web Store. The <a href="//www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/webstore/business-apps-connect.html?utm_source=0613entblogsmbapps&utm_medium=blog#gmail" target="_blank">Gmail</a> and <a href="//www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/webstore/business-apps-create.html?utm_source=0613entblogsmbapps&utm_medium=blog#drive" target="_blank">Google Drive</a> Chrome apps let you access your mail and documents even when you’re offline. And with Chrome extensions like <a href="//www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/webstore/business-apps-connect.html?utm_source=0613entblogsmbapps&utm_medium=blog#hootsuite" target="_blank">HootSuite’s Hootlet</a> and <a href="//www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/webstore/business-apps-connect.html?utm_source=0613entblogsmbapps&utm_medium=blog#zendesk" target="_blank">Zendesk Activity Stream</a>, you can monitor your social media stream and your customer service issues at the same time, because -- well, that’s just what entrepreneurs do every day. <br /><br />You need tools that work just as hard as you do. Thanks to the web, it’s easier than ever to discover the apps that fit your specific needs. If you’re on the lookout for new ways to simplify, manage, or grow your business, check out these <a href="//www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/webstore/business-apps-connect.html?utm_source=0613entblogsmbapps&utm_medium=blog" target="_blank">business apps</a> from the Chrome Web Store. And if your team isn’t on Chrome already, learn more about the security, speed and manageability of <a href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/browser/?utm_source=0613entblogsmbapps&utm_medium=blog" target="_blank">Chrome for Business</a>. </div> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author">Posted by Bonny Lau, Product Manager, Chrome for Business and Education</span><br /><br /><i><b>Editor's note:</b> As part of our series focused on celebrating <a href="http://www.sba.gov/nsbw/nsbw" target="_blank">National Small Business Week</a>, we are featuring stories, tools and resources that can help small businesses grow and innovate.</i><br /><br />American entrepreneurs have good reason to celebrate this week -- it’s National Small Business Week. Entrepreneurs all over the world, like you, have a knack for wearing many hats, being scrappy and spotting new opportunities. And the tools you use should be intuitive, scale quickly and easily, and offer ubiquitous accessibility. <br /><br />Luckily, many business web apps today are perfect for small and growing businesses. <a href="//www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/webstore/business-apps-manage.html?utm_source=0613entblogsmbapps&utm_medium=blog" target="_blank">Accounting apps</a> are intuitive enough to be used by someone without a CPA. <a href="//www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/webstore/business-apps-connect.html?utm_source=0613entblogsmbapps&utm_medium=blog#podio" target="_blank">Managing customers</a> comes with pricing that scales as your business grows. And your <a href="//www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/webstore/business-apps-connect.html?utm_source=0613entblogsmbapps&utm_medium=blog#hootsuite" target="_blank">social media management</a> and <a href="//www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/webstore/business-apps-connect.html?utm_source=0613entblogsmbapps&utm_medium=blog#mailchimp" target="_blank">email campaign</a> tools can work with each other via clever APIs. Best of all, you and your team can use these web apps anywhere, from any computer. <br /><br />In honor of National Small Business Week, we’re featuring a <a href="//www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/webstore/business-apps-connect.html?utm_source=0613entblogsmbapps&utm_medium=blog" target="_blank">curated list</a> of some of our favorite business apps and extensions from the Chrome Web Store. The <a href="//www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/webstore/business-apps-connect.html?utm_source=0613entblogsmbapps&utm_medium=blog#gmail" target="_blank">Gmail</a> and <a href="//www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/webstore/business-apps-create.html?utm_source=0613entblogsmbapps&utm_medium=blog#drive" target="_blank">Google Drive</a> Chrome apps let you access your mail and documents even when you’re offline. And with Chrome extensions like <a href="//www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/webstore/business-apps-connect.html?utm_source=0613entblogsmbapps&utm_medium=blog#hootsuite" target="_blank">HootSuite’s Hootlet</a> and <a href="//www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/webstore/business-apps-connect.html?utm_source=0613entblogsmbapps&utm_medium=blog#zendesk" target="_blank">Zendesk Activity Stream</a>, you can monitor your social media stream and your customer service issues at the same time, because -- well, that’s just what entrepreneurs do every day. <br /><br />You need tools that work just as hard as you do. Thanks to the web, it’s easier than ever to discover the apps that fit your specific needs. If you’re on the lookout for new ways to simplify, manage, or grow your business, check out these <a href="//www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/webstore/business-apps-connect.html?utm_source=0613entblogsmbapps&utm_medium=blog" target="_blank">business apps</a> from the Chrome Web Store. And if your team isn’t on Chrome already, learn more about the security, speed and manageability of <a href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/browser/?utm_source=0613entblogsmbapps&utm_medium=blog" target="_blank">Chrome for Business</a>. </div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/06/celebrating-entrepreneurship-with.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Celebrating entrepreneurship with Chrome business apps &url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/06/celebrating-entrepreneurship-with.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/06/celebrating-entrepreneurship-with.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='1' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/06/celebrating-entrepreneurship-with.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/06/celebrating-entrepreneurship-with.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/06/celebrating-entrepreneurship-with.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Chrome%20for%20Business' rel='tag'> Chrome for Business </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/SBW2013' rel='tag'> SBW2013 </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/small%20business' rel='tag'> small business </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='2941390584951220260' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/06/happy-small-business-week.html' itemprop='url' title='Happy Small Business Week.'> Happy Small Business Week. </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Monday, June 17, 2013 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author">Posted by Lisa Gevelber, VP Marketing, Americas</span><br /><br /><i>(Cross-posted on the <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/happy-small-business-week.html" target="_blank">Official Google Blog</a>)</i> <br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Our first AdWords customer was a small business selling live mail-order lobsters. It's been a long time since then, but a majority of our customers are still small businesses, who play a vital role not only for Google, but for the American economy. More than 60 percent of new jobs each year come from small businesses. </div><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Bko9id5LdG4" width="560"></iframe> <br />This Small Business Week, we want to celebrate you. We're grateful to you for everything you do for us and our communities. Whether you fix people’s cars, offer music lessons to aspiring musicians, or make the world’s best homemade ice cream - when you do what you love, our lives get better. <br /><br />As part of the celebration, we’ll be highlighting some amazing small businesses across the country, so keep an eye on the <a href="https://plus.sandbox.google.com/+GoogleBusiness/posts" target="_blank">Google+ Your Business page</a>. And in the meantime, check out some of the <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/landing/campaign/smallbusinessweek/" target="_blank">Google tools</a> that are designed to help you take care of business. <br /><br />Happy Small Business Week. </div> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author">Posted by Lisa Gevelber, VP Marketing, Americas</span><br /><br /><i>(Cross-posted on the <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/happy-small-business-week.html" target="_blank">Official Google Blog</a>)</i> <br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Our first AdWords customer was a small business selling live mail-order lobsters. It's been a long time since then, but a majority of our customers are still small businesses, who play a vital role not only for Google, but for the American economy. More than 60 percent of new jobs each year come from small businesses. </div><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Bko9id5LdG4" width="560"></iframe> <br />This Small Business Week, we want to celebrate you. We're grateful to you for everything you do for us and our communities. Whether you fix people’s cars, offer music lessons to aspiring musicians, or make the world’s best homemade ice cream - when you do what you love, our lives get better. <br /><br />As part of the celebration, we’ll be highlighting some amazing small businesses across the country, so keep an eye on the <a href="https://plus.sandbox.google.com/+GoogleBusiness/posts" target="_blank">Google+ Your Business page</a>. And in the meantime, check out some of the <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/landing/campaign/smallbusinessweek/" target="_blank">Google tools</a> that are designed to help you take care of business. <br /><br />Happy Small Business Week. </div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/06/happy-small-business-week.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Happy Small Business Week.&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/06/happy-small-business-week.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/06/happy-small-business-week.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='0' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/06/happy-small-business-week.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/06/happy-small-business-week.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/06/happy-small-business-week.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/SBW2013' rel='tag'> SBW2013 </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/small%20business' rel='tag'> small business </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='3618876854388721984' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/04/johnny-cupcakes-has-gone-google.html' itemprop='url' title='Johnny Cupcakes has gone Google'> Johnny Cupcakes has gone Google </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Tuesday, April 9, 2013 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author">Posted by Justin Hiltz, Media Futurist at Johnny Cupcakes</span><br /><br /><i><b>Editor's note:</b> From the founding of Faneuil Hall in 1740 to the opening of Franklin Southie in 2008, Boston’s businesses have embodied an enterprising and entrepreneurial spirit. Today, we’re wicked excited to hear from Justin Hiltz, Media Futurist at <a href="http://www.johnnycupcakes.com/">Johnny Cupcakes</a>, a designer, manufacturer and retailer of unique, limited edition t-shirts founded in Boston. See what other organizations that have gone Google <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/customers.html#utm_medium=blog&utm_source=en-na-us-entblog-JohnnyCupcakes040913&utm_campaign=en_us">have to say</a>.</i><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsyd7rDFKcZB69F181qko29u3gWDGf4Qlh63nTRNAyfzC1Czrg_jXQyVUFiDzZlJQZwll9My_EueKPBOLNP4t_OVnrt_7muMjU1rIIoPS95rCf39e9gdInJtCFIHFhVnnlFBnrD6lfxKQ/s1600/jc-logo.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsyd7rDFKcZB69F181qko29u3gWDGf4Qlh63nTRNAyfzC1Czrg_jXQyVUFiDzZlJQZwll9My_EueKPBOLNP4t_OVnrt_7muMjU1rIIoPS95rCf39e9gdInJtCFIHFhVnnlFBnrD6lfxKQ/s200/jc-logo.png" width="200" /></a>We’re fans of individuality and expression at Johnny Cupcakes. Our t-shirts are specially made in small batches to help express and reflect our customer’s unique styles. This independent ethos helped propel our brand from a cult favorite in our hometown of Boston into a multi-million dollar, international business with stores in London, Los Angeles and, of course, across Massachusetts. <br /><br />We’ve grown a lot since Johnny Earle started Johnny Cupcakes in 2001, but we’ve always put a premium on staying fresh – both with our designs and the technology we work with. When I joined the company two years ago, I realized our email system was causing more harm than good, especially at the rate we were growing. I knew we needed an upgrade, I knew it didn't make sense to install a server that required constant maintenance, and I knew most employees were already using Gmail on their own. Moving to Google Apps seemed both attractive and obvious. <br /><br />Google Apps for Business makes communication a snap. We’ve grown to 50 employees, but still work at the same breakneck speed we did when it was just Johnny hustling to get the company off the ground. That’s why it’s essential to have the tools to keep up with our pace. Google Chat makes that possible. We love that we can send a quick ping to someone with a question, an idea in need of feedback or a project update without having to leave our desks. <br /><br />Google Apps saves us a lot of time and prevents a lot of headaches. Take our recent website redesign, for example. Our customers are our biggest fans, so we wanted to show them some love by highlighting a handful of them on our new site. At first, the thought of coordinating, collecting and curating that amount of content seemed daunting. I was worried we’d have to use a 3rd party questionnaire app or do everything over email and pull it all together manually (and painstakingly). Then I realized I could do it all through Google Forms. I set up a questionnaire, sent it to our customers, and saw the responses show up in real-time in a single spreadsheet. It saved me hours of work I would’ve wasted emailing, copying and pasting. <br /><br />Johnny Cupcakes is all about our customers – we love them and they love us. This connection fuels our drive to make clothes that are both exclusive and accessible. Google Apps allows us to communicate more effectively, which helps free up our time so that we can concentrate on the things that really matter: our customers. </div> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author">Posted by Justin Hiltz, Media Futurist at Johnny Cupcakes</span><br /><br /><i><b>Editor's note:</b> From the founding of Faneuil Hall in 1740 to the opening of Franklin Southie in 2008, Boston’s businesses have embodied an enterprising and entrepreneurial spirit. Today, we’re wicked excited to hear from Justin Hiltz, Media Futurist at <a href="http://www.johnnycupcakes.com/">Johnny Cupcakes</a>, a designer, manufacturer and retailer of unique, limited edition t-shirts founded in Boston. See what other organizations that have gone Google <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/customers.html#utm_medium=blog&utm_source=en-na-us-entblog-JohnnyCupcakes040913&utm_campaign=en_us">have to say</a>.</i><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsyd7rDFKcZB69F181qko29u3gWDGf4Qlh63nTRNAyfzC1Czrg_jXQyVUFiDzZlJQZwll9My_EueKPBOLNP4t_OVnrt_7muMjU1rIIoPS95rCf39e9gdInJtCFIHFhVnnlFBnrD6lfxKQ/s1600/jc-logo.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsyd7rDFKcZB69F181qko29u3gWDGf4Qlh63nTRNAyfzC1Czrg_jXQyVUFiDzZlJQZwll9My_EueKPBOLNP4t_OVnrt_7muMjU1rIIoPS95rCf39e9gdInJtCFIHFhVnnlFBnrD6lfxKQ/s200/jc-logo.png" width="200" /></a>We’re fans of individuality and expression at Johnny Cupcakes. Our t-shirts are specially made in small batches to help express and reflect our customer’s unique styles. This independent ethos helped propel our brand from a cult favorite in our hometown of Boston into a multi-million dollar, international business with stores in London, Los Angeles and, of course, across Massachusetts. <br /><br />We’ve grown a lot since Johnny Earle started Johnny Cupcakes in 2001, but we’ve always put a premium on staying fresh – both with our designs and the technology we work with. When I joined the company two years ago, I realized our email system was causing more harm than good, especially at the rate we were growing. I knew we needed an upgrade, I knew it didn't make sense to install a server that required constant maintenance, and I knew most employees were already using Gmail on their own. Moving to Google Apps seemed both attractive and obvious. <br /><br />Google Apps for Business makes communication a snap. We’ve grown to 50 employees, but still work at the same breakneck speed we did when it was just Johnny hustling to get the company off the ground. That’s why it’s essential to have the tools to keep up with our pace. Google Chat makes that possible. We love that we can send a quick ping to someone with a question, an idea in need of feedback or a project update without having to leave our desks. <br /><br />Google Apps saves us a lot of time and prevents a lot of headaches. Take our recent website redesign, for example. Our customers are our biggest fans, so we wanted to show them some love by highlighting a handful of them on our new site. At first, the thought of coordinating, collecting and curating that amount of content seemed daunting. I was worried we’d have to use a 3rd party questionnaire app or do everything over email and pull it all together manually (and painstakingly). Then I realized I could do it all through Google Forms. I set up a questionnaire, sent it to our customers, and saw the responses show up in real-time in a single spreadsheet. It saved me hours of work I would’ve wasted emailing, copying and pasting. <br /><br />Johnny Cupcakes is all about our customers – we love them and they love us. This connection fuels our drive to make clothes that are both exclusive and accessible. Google Apps allows us to communicate more effectively, which helps free up our time so that we can concentrate on the things that really matter: our customers. </div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/04/johnny-cupcakes-has-gone-google.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Johnny Cupcakes has gone Google&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/04/johnny-cupcakes-has-gone-google.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/04/johnny-cupcakes-has-gone-google.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='3' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/04/johnny-cupcakes-has-gone-google.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/04/johnny-cupcakes-has-gone-google.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/04/johnny-cupcakes-has-gone-google.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Boston' rel='tag'> Boston </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/customer%20love' rel='tag'> customer love </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Gone%20Google' rel='tag'> Gone Google </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/small%20business' rel='tag'> small business </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/SMB' rel='tag'> SMB </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/success%20story' rel='tag'> success story </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='7452352836211685705' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/04/second-city-communications-wins.html' itemprop='url' title='Second City Communications wins audiences with collaboration and Google Apps'> Second City Communications wins audiences with collaboration and Google Apps </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Tuesday, April 2, 2013 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Steve Johnston, Second City Communications</span><br /><br /><i><b>Editor's note:</b> Our guest blogger is Steve Johnston, president of <a href="http://secondcitycommunications.com/">Second City Communications</a>, the business solutions division of the legendary improv theater company, The Second City, and our partner in <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2013/03/google-apps-now-helping-you-enjoy-work.html">yesterday’s April Fools’ joke</a>. See what other organizations that have gone Google <a href="https://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/landing/campaign/gonegoogle/customers.html#utm_medium=blog&utm_source=en-na-us-entblog-SecondCity04202013&utm_campaign=en_us">have to say</a>.</i> <p>The Second City, the venerable Chicago comedy theatre known for its creative method and improvisation, is a far cry from a Silicon Valley start-up. Nonetheless, in a very real sense we’ve been in the “interactive” and “social collaboration” space for five decades. We believe in providing a great experience for our audience and are hardwired to innovate and attack convention whenever possible. <p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaRYEteE8AAX-OVeGV884cZTl_wvLtVvhyAZLVM5CKjtAFYMkEvcAHui9AXCp_SXfbNJLLQkBr_z0M_s16mXDGC8beeYJY_KBvPqTEuCjfl2IQXKoRmVYq2LYIAhzcoq4BFkhVUkpvsdE/s1600/RealBiz_SCC_LogoOnWhite_062410.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaRYEteE8AAX-OVeGV884cZTl_wvLtVvhyAZLVM5CKjtAFYMkEvcAHui9AXCp_SXfbNJLLQkBr_z0M_s16mXDGC8beeYJY_KBvPqTEuCjfl2IQXKoRmVYq2LYIAhzcoq4BFkhVUkpvsdE/s320/RealBiz_SCC_LogoOnWhite_062410.png" /></a>The Second City has been called the “Harvard of Comedy,” and our alumni list includes stars such as Alan Arkin, John Belushi, Gilda Radner, Mike Myers, Steve Carell and Tina Fey. Our business division, Second City Communications, brings the same audience-empowered approach to the boardroom, creating content marketing, entertainment and training programs for some of America’s best-known companies. You can see some of <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2013/03/google-apps-now-helping-you-enjoy-work.html">our handiwork</a> on this blog. <p>Second City Communications has been using Google Apps for over a year. Apps provides the interactive collaboration with our clients that’s necessary to co-create compelling, engaging videos that enhance companies’ training communications. We begin by using Google Docs to get multiple companies brainstorming ideas around hot corporate topics such as ethics and compliance, as well as sales effectiveness. From there, we bring our special brand of humor into the mix. We then share scripts in Google Drive to get real-time feedback from clients, helping us make sure the videos resonate with employees and reflect real challenges in the workplace. <p>Because you can’t really get the full effect of a script without hearing it, we meet with clients over Google+ Hangouts. Our actors do fun “table read” sessions so clients can listen and react while we observe it all. Our clients make sure we talk the talk of their audiences and bring a whole new level of authenticity to the creative development process. We continue to create these videos, called RealBiz Shorts, with more than 250 Fortune 1000 clients, who use them to change behavior and transform company culture through smart comedy. <p>When you look at these training videos, you see something that’s not only humorous, but also anchored in reality. RealBiz Shorts get employees more engaged with existing programs. It’s like marketing for training! <a href="http://realbizshorts.com/demo/technology/">See for yourself</a>. <p>It’s 2013, folks. New approaches for a new time. Google Apps plays a key part of our creative development process to build big ideas with our clients. It gives us vital tools to bring improv agility and nimbleness to enterprise collaboration, and helps us bridge the gap between comedy and the corporate world. <p>Funny thing is, it’s working. Beautifully. </script> <noscript> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Steve Johnston, Second City Communications</span><br /><br /><i><b>Editor's note:</b> Our guest blogger is Steve Johnston, president of <a href="http://secondcitycommunications.com/">Second City Communications</a>, the business solutions division of the legendary improv theater company, The Second City, and our partner in <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2013/03/google-apps-now-helping-you-enjoy-work.html">yesterday’s April Fools’ joke</a>. See what other organizations that have gone Google <a href="https://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/landing/campaign/gonegoogle/customers.html#utm_medium=blog&utm_source=en-na-us-entblog-SecondCity04202013&utm_campaign=en_us">have to say</a>.</i> <p>The Second City, the venerable Chicago comedy theatre known for its creative method and improvisation, is a far cry from a Silicon Valley start-up. Nonetheless, in a very real sense we’ve been in the “interactive” and “social collaboration” space for five decades. We believe in providing a great experience for our audience and are hardwired to innovate and attack convention whenever possible. <p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaRYEteE8AAX-OVeGV884cZTl_wvLtVvhyAZLVM5CKjtAFYMkEvcAHui9AXCp_SXfbNJLLQkBr_z0M_s16mXDGC8beeYJY_KBvPqTEuCjfl2IQXKoRmVYq2LYIAhzcoq4BFkhVUkpvsdE/s1600/RealBiz_SCC_LogoOnWhite_062410.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaRYEteE8AAX-OVeGV884cZTl_wvLtVvhyAZLVM5CKjtAFYMkEvcAHui9AXCp_SXfbNJLLQkBr_z0M_s16mXDGC8beeYJY_KBvPqTEuCjfl2IQXKoRmVYq2LYIAhzcoq4BFkhVUkpvsdE/s320/RealBiz_SCC_LogoOnWhite_062410.png" /></a>The Second City has been called the “Harvard of Comedy,” and our alumni list includes stars such as Alan Arkin, John Belushi, Gilda Radner, Mike Myers, Steve Carell and Tina Fey. Our business division, Second City Communications, brings the same audience-empowered approach to the boardroom, creating content marketing, entertainment and training programs for some of America’s best-known companies. You can see some of <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2013/03/google-apps-now-helping-you-enjoy-work.html">our handiwork</a> on this blog. <p>Second City Communications has been using Google Apps for over a year. Apps provides the interactive collaboration with our clients that’s necessary to co-create compelling, engaging videos that enhance companies’ training communications. We begin by using Google Docs to get multiple companies brainstorming ideas around hot corporate topics such as ethics and compliance, as well as sales effectiveness. From there, we bring our special brand of humor into the mix. We then share scripts in Google Drive to get real-time feedback from clients, helping us make sure the videos resonate with employees and reflect real challenges in the workplace. <p>Because you can’t really get the full effect of a script without hearing it, we meet with clients over Google+ Hangouts. Our actors do fun “table read” sessions so clients can listen and react while we observe it all. Our clients make sure we talk the talk of their audiences and bring a whole new level of authenticity to the creative development process. We continue to create these videos, called RealBiz Shorts, with more than 250 Fortune 1000 clients, who use them to change behavior and transform company culture through smart comedy. <p>When you look at these training videos, you see something that’s not only humorous, but also anchored in reality. RealBiz Shorts get employees more engaged with existing programs. It’s like marketing for training! <a href="http://realbizshorts.com/demo/technology/">See for yourself</a>. <p>It’s 2013, folks. New approaches for a new time. Google Apps plays a key part of our creative development process to build big ideas with our clients. It gives us vital tools to bring improv agility and nimbleness to enterprise collaboration, and helps us bridge the gap between comedy and the corporate world. <p>Funny thing is, it’s working. Beautifully. </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/04/second-city-communications-wins.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Second City Communications wins audiences with collaboration and Google Apps&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/04/second-city-communications-wins.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/04/second-city-communications-wins.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='1' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/04/second-city-communications-wins.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/04/second-city-communications-wins.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/04/second-city-communications-wins.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/customer%20love' rel='tag'> customer love </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Gone%20Google' rel='tag'> Gone Google </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/guest%20post' rel='tag'> guest post </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/small%20business' rel='tag'> small business </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/SMB' rel='tag'> SMB </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/success%20story' rel='tag'> success story </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='4896296075397341995' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/03/ghouse-has-gone-google.html' itemprop='url' title='GHouse has gone Google'> GHouse has gone Google </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Thursday, March 28, 2013 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author">Posted Tim Luckow, Founder & Owner of GHouse</span><br /><br /><i><b>Editor's note:</b> From the founding of Faneuil Hall in 1740 to the opening of Franklin Southie in 2008, Boston’s businesses have embodied an enterprising and entrepreneurial spirit. Today, we’re wicked excited to hear from Tim Luckow, founder of Boston-based <a href="http://ghouse.co/">GHouse</a>, a record label, management and promotion company. See what other organizations that have gone Google <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/customers.html#utm_medium=blog&utm_source=en-na-us-entblog-GHouse03282013&utm_campaign=en_us">have to say</a>.</i><br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVc1nWLy9OiEDMMEHY5iaUYHOD0byV52w_bJ-xUnEeG1_zd6O1bI26y3YwB7M9S5kd6nkSc8q1RYuq4VtZRJ3jKeI91756RIvvBMvaRiJ3m_NyfpIP06-9s5K7RcFJVwZloHYJYQH-yfU/s1600/Tim+Luckow.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVc1nWLy9OiEDMMEHY5iaUYHOD0byV52w_bJ-xUnEeG1_zd6O1bI26y3YwB7M9S5kd6nkSc8q1RYuq4VtZRJ3jKeI91756RIvvBMvaRiJ3m_NyfpIP06-9s5K7RcFJVwZloHYJYQH-yfU/s320/Tim+Luckow.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.8137745787389576" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>Photo by Christopher Evans, Boston Herald</i></span></span></b></td></tr></tbody></table>One of the most enduring critiques of the record industry is, as Q-Tip rhymed in 1991, "<a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRrM6tfOHds&feature=youtu.be&t=2m59s">Industry Rule No. 4,080</a>: Record company people are shady." While some things have improved since then, there are still plenty of ways the industry could be better. I started GHouse, a Boston-based music label, management and booking agency, to make that change happen. <br /><br />Transparency reigns supreme at GHouse: we’re dedicated to showing our artists what happens behind the scenes on the business side so they can focus on their music. We want them to know exactly how much they’re making from digital sales, how many people are streaming their songs online and what each venue contract really means. It’s good both for the artists and for us: we’ve doubled our profits quarter-over-quarter since the start of 2012. <br /><br />Google Apps makes that transparency - and the vision I have for my business - possible. The foundation of this clear communication sits in Google Sheets. We create, share and constantly update a spreadsheet for each of our artists that tracks performance across multiple channels, from the number of times their songs are live-streamed on certain sites to how many tickets they’re selling for upcoming shows. That way, the band can hop into the spreadsheet at any given time and know how much they can expect in royalties and sales. <br /><br />As we’ve grown, so has the geographic distribution of our bands. Thanks to Google+ Hangouts, it feels like we’re still in the same neighborhood. Instead of having to venture down the Eastern seaboard on a bus each week, we’ll catch up with them over video conferencing. That’s eight hours I spend focusing on my business rather than commuting along I-95. <br /><br />Most importantly, Google Apps has helped me prove the legitimacy of the business side of GHouse to the investors, who are an increasingly essential part of the company’s future. I track everything about the business in Sheets, including quarterly distribution and tour numbers, divided by artists and labels. The investors I’ve shared these with love how all this information is centrally located, impeccably organized, updated in real-time and accessible to the team at any time, from any device. <br /><br />Google Apps is truly the core of my business. It’s helped GHouse function as a company for four years without an office, whether we’re updating our artists’ performance spreadsheets over lattes at a coffee shop or doing last minute planning for a SXSW showcase in Austin. I’m able to run a record label like I think it should be run. To me, that’s real success. </div> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author">Posted Tim Luckow, Founder & Owner of GHouse</span><br /><br /><i><b>Editor's note:</b> From the founding of Faneuil Hall in 1740 to the opening of Franklin Southie in 2008, Boston’s businesses have embodied an enterprising and entrepreneurial spirit. Today, we’re wicked excited to hear from Tim Luckow, founder of Boston-based <a href="http://ghouse.co/">GHouse</a>, a record label, management and promotion company. See what other organizations that have gone Google <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/customers.html#utm_medium=blog&utm_source=en-na-us-entblog-GHouse03282013&utm_campaign=en_us">have to say</a>.</i><br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVc1nWLy9OiEDMMEHY5iaUYHOD0byV52w_bJ-xUnEeG1_zd6O1bI26y3YwB7M9S5kd6nkSc8q1RYuq4VtZRJ3jKeI91756RIvvBMvaRiJ3m_NyfpIP06-9s5K7RcFJVwZloHYJYQH-yfU/s1600/Tim+Luckow.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVc1nWLy9OiEDMMEHY5iaUYHOD0byV52w_bJ-xUnEeG1_zd6O1bI26y3YwB7M9S5kd6nkSc8q1RYuq4VtZRJ3jKeI91756RIvvBMvaRiJ3m_NyfpIP06-9s5K7RcFJVwZloHYJYQH-yfU/s320/Tim+Luckow.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.8137745787389576" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>Photo by Christopher Evans, Boston Herald</i></span></span></b></td></tr></tbody></table>One of the most enduring critiques of the record industry is, as Q-Tip rhymed in 1991, "<a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRrM6tfOHds&feature=youtu.be&t=2m59s">Industry Rule No. 4,080</a>: Record company people are shady." While some things have improved since then, there are still plenty of ways the industry could be better. I started GHouse, a Boston-based music label, management and booking agency, to make that change happen. <br /><br />Transparency reigns supreme at GHouse: we’re dedicated to showing our artists what happens behind the scenes on the business side so they can focus on their music. We want them to know exactly how much they’re making from digital sales, how many people are streaming their songs online and what each venue contract really means. It’s good both for the artists and for us: we’ve doubled our profits quarter-over-quarter since the start of 2012. <br /><br />Google Apps makes that transparency - and the vision I have for my business - possible. The foundation of this clear communication sits in Google Sheets. We create, share and constantly update a spreadsheet for each of our artists that tracks performance across multiple channels, from the number of times their songs are live-streamed on certain sites to how many tickets they’re selling for upcoming shows. That way, the band can hop into the spreadsheet at any given time and know how much they can expect in royalties and sales. <br /><br />As we’ve grown, so has the geographic distribution of our bands. Thanks to Google+ Hangouts, it feels like we’re still in the same neighborhood. Instead of having to venture down the Eastern seaboard on a bus each week, we’ll catch up with them over video conferencing. That’s eight hours I spend focusing on my business rather than commuting along I-95. <br /><br />Most importantly, Google Apps has helped me prove the legitimacy of the business side of GHouse to the investors, who are an increasingly essential part of the company’s future. I track everything about the business in Sheets, including quarterly distribution and tour numbers, divided by artists and labels. The investors I’ve shared these with love how all this information is centrally located, impeccably organized, updated in real-time and accessible to the team at any time, from any device. <br /><br />Google Apps is truly the core of my business. It’s helped GHouse function as a company for four years without an office, whether we’re updating our artists’ performance spreadsheets over lattes at a coffee shop or doing last minute planning for a SXSW showcase in Austin. I’m able to run a record label like I think it should be run. To me, that’s real success. </div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/03/ghouse-has-gone-google.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:GHouse has gone Google&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/03/ghouse-has-gone-google.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/03/ghouse-has-gone-google.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='1' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/03/ghouse-has-gone-google.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/03/ghouse-has-gone-google.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/03/ghouse-has-gone-google.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Boston' rel='tag'> Boston </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/customer%20love' rel='tag'> customer love </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Gone%20Google' rel='tag'> Gone Google </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/small%20business' rel='tag'> small business </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/SMB' rel='tag'> SMB </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/success%20story' rel='tag'> success story </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='1173160092159819481' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/03/daily-grommet-has-gone-google.html' itemprop='url' title='Daily Grommet has gone Google'> Daily Grommet has gone Google </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Tuesday, March 26, 2013 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author">Posted by Aimee Anderson, Vice President of Business Development at Daily Grommet</span><br /><br /><i><b>Editor's note:</b> From the founding of Faneuil Hall in 1740 to the opening of Franklin Southie in 2008, Boston’s businesses have embodied an enterprising and entrepreneurial spirit. Today, we’re wicked excited to hear from Aimee Anderson, Vice President of Business Development at <a href="http://www.dailygrommet.com/">Daily Grommet</a>, a Boston-based online marketplace for new, innovative consumer products. See what other companies that have gone Google <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/customers.html#utm_medium=blog&utm_source=en-na-us-entblog-DailyGrommet03262013&utm_campaign=en_us">have to say</a>.</i><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp1S1x7iSyRyvYYoQQ2fyLrwfTwKOnaadraW6YIRHr0BJ9jrUEY7tWNQd9_MJXSsW0K-KPKdiDInzlZLr6edMvyyLX2Npq3IoMrg4olyM8xXqBrsdrVjCgqhSeiauUCNDROqPOym-Ws7E/s1600/GoogleImages_3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp1S1x7iSyRyvYYoQQ2fyLrwfTwKOnaadraW6YIRHr0BJ9jrUEY7tWNQd9_MJXSsW0K-KPKdiDInzlZLr6edMvyyLX2Npq3IoMrg4olyM8xXqBrsdrVjCgqhSeiauUCNDROqPOym-Ws7E/s320/GoogleImages_3.JPG" width="308" /></a><span id="goog_1983514369"></span><span id="goog_1983514370"></span>At Daily Grommet, we love finding the next new thing. Since we started in 2008, our site has launched more than 1,500 products from companies with innovative consumer product ideas, including luggage, solar-powered lights, funky watches, headphones and skin care products. We’re a fast-moving company that embraces the entrepreneurial spirit, both in our own culture and in the products we help go to market. <br /><br />Building a business around a steady stream of product launches demands a strong technology platform that enables quick and constant collaboration for a team that works all sorts of hours from all over the country. Our office is in Boston, but we have remote workers in Colorado, California and Minnesota, and people often work from home or on the road. Whether it’s catching up on a project using Google Chat, firing off an email or collaborating in real-time with co-workers using Google Docs and Google Sheets, our employees are connected wherever they are. Our marketing team has even completely dumped wired phones and relies entirely on Google+ Hangouts. They may be dispersed geographically, but with video conferencing, they feel like they’re all in a room together. <br /><br />While Google+ keeps us connected, Google Sheets drives our product launch cycle. We launch something new each day at noon, so getting each product ready to go live is an intense process that requires significant coordination and collaboration across multiple teams. Every ounce of information about all of our product lines is held in a shared spreadsheet, from purchase orders to contact information, manufacturing details to photos and videos. Each spreadsheet is shared with the discovery, marketing and development teams and gets updated as every product moves through the process to launch. Releasing a new product takes a lot of coordination and our teams need to know the information they're working with is up to date and can be accessed anywhere by anyone. With Sheets, that’s never a question. <br /><br />Finding the next new thing requires a technology backbone that lets us be nimble, fast, and always connected. Google Apps does just that. Right now, we’re <a href="http://www.dailygrommet.com/products/seasonal-collections/national-craft-month">celebrating National Craft Month</a> by highlighting more than 30 cool pieces of jewelry, food, crafts tools and other amazing things our partners create. Google Apps helps us make good on our commitment to the companies we work with by giving them a springboard to build their business. That’s a commitment we take seriously and are proud to uphold.</div> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author">Posted by Aimee Anderson, Vice President of Business Development at Daily Grommet</span><br /><br /><i><b>Editor's note:</b> From the founding of Faneuil Hall in 1740 to the opening of Franklin Southie in 2008, Boston’s businesses have embodied an enterprising and entrepreneurial spirit. Today, we’re wicked excited to hear from Aimee Anderson, Vice President of Business Development at <a href="http://www.dailygrommet.com/">Daily Grommet</a>, a Boston-based online marketplace for new, innovative consumer products. See what other companies that have gone Google <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/customers.html#utm_medium=blog&utm_source=en-na-us-entblog-DailyGrommet03262013&utm_campaign=en_us">have to say</a>.</i><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp1S1x7iSyRyvYYoQQ2fyLrwfTwKOnaadraW6YIRHr0BJ9jrUEY7tWNQd9_MJXSsW0K-KPKdiDInzlZLr6edMvyyLX2Npq3IoMrg4olyM8xXqBrsdrVjCgqhSeiauUCNDROqPOym-Ws7E/s1600/GoogleImages_3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp1S1x7iSyRyvYYoQQ2fyLrwfTwKOnaadraW6YIRHr0BJ9jrUEY7tWNQd9_MJXSsW0K-KPKdiDInzlZLr6edMvyyLX2Npq3IoMrg4olyM8xXqBrsdrVjCgqhSeiauUCNDROqPOym-Ws7E/s320/GoogleImages_3.JPG" width="308" /></a><span id="goog_1983514369"></span><span id="goog_1983514370"></span>At Daily Grommet, we love finding the next new thing. Since we started in 2008, our site has launched more than 1,500 products from companies with innovative consumer product ideas, including luggage, solar-powered lights, funky watches, headphones and skin care products. We’re a fast-moving company that embraces the entrepreneurial spirit, both in our own culture and in the products we help go to market. <br /><br />Building a business around a steady stream of product launches demands a strong technology platform that enables quick and constant collaboration for a team that works all sorts of hours from all over the country. Our office is in Boston, but we have remote workers in Colorado, California and Minnesota, and people often work from home or on the road. Whether it’s catching up on a project using Google Chat, firing off an email or collaborating in real-time with co-workers using Google Docs and Google Sheets, our employees are connected wherever they are. Our marketing team has even completely dumped wired phones and relies entirely on Google+ Hangouts. They may be dispersed geographically, but with video conferencing, they feel like they’re all in a room together. <br /><br />While Google+ keeps us connected, Google Sheets drives our product launch cycle. We launch something new each day at noon, so getting each product ready to go live is an intense process that requires significant coordination and collaboration across multiple teams. Every ounce of information about all of our product lines is held in a shared spreadsheet, from purchase orders to contact information, manufacturing details to photos and videos. Each spreadsheet is shared with the discovery, marketing and development teams and gets updated as every product moves through the process to launch. Releasing a new product takes a lot of coordination and our teams need to know the information they're working with is up to date and can be accessed anywhere by anyone. With Sheets, that’s never a question. <br /><br />Finding the next new thing requires a technology backbone that lets us be nimble, fast, and always connected. Google Apps does just that. Right now, we’re <a href="http://www.dailygrommet.com/products/seasonal-collections/national-craft-month">celebrating National Craft Month</a> by highlighting more than 30 cool pieces of jewelry, food, crafts tools and other amazing things our partners create. Google Apps helps us make good on our commitment to the companies we work with by giving them a springboard to build their business. That’s a commitment we take seriously and are proud to uphold.</div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/03/daily-grommet-has-gone-google.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Daily Grommet has gone Google&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/03/daily-grommet-has-gone-google.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/03/daily-grommet-has-gone-google.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='0' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/03/daily-grommet-has-gone-google.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/03/daily-grommet-has-gone-google.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/03/daily-grommet-has-gone-google.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Boston' rel='tag'> Boston </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/customer%20love' rel='tag'> customer love </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Gone%20Google' rel='tag'> Gone Google </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/gonegoogle' rel='tag'> gonegoogle </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/small%20business' rel='tag'> small business </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/SMB' rel='tag'> SMB </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/success%20story' rel='tag'> success story </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='4373708894762637018' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/03/faneuil-hall-marketplace-has-gone-google.html' itemprop='url' title='Faneuil Hall Marketplace has gone Google'> Faneuil Hall Marketplace has gone Google </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Monday, March 11, 2013 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author">Posted by Kristin Phelan, Marketing Director at Faneuil Hall Marketplace</span><br /><br /><i><b>Editor's note:</b> Boston’s changed a bit since Paul Revere set out on his famous midnight horseback ride in 1775. Belichick and Brady hadn’t met yet, the curse of the Big Bambino had yet to be cast (then broken), and Ben and Matt hadn’t won an Oscar for “Good Will Hunting.” But one thing has stayed the same in Boston over time: the city has been driven and defined by self-starters and homegrown businesses. <br /><br />We’re wicked excited to highlight a few Boston businesses using Google Apps over the next few weeks. Today, we’ll hear from Kristin Phelan, Marketing Director at <a href="http://www.faneuilhallmarketplace.com/">Faneuil Hall Marketplace</a>, a historic Boston landmark. See what other organizations that have gone Google <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/customers.html#utm_medium=blog&utm_source=en-na-us-entblog-Faneuil03112013&utm_campaign=en_us">have to say</a>.</i><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjiY89a720rG4ckACDV4i3JxjzzYuXaazG5d0ryQ0eO_0tfiK-BG8buDExA3X32_DQHV6orkDnIuHWxp7z7X-QNN9TpnI8Y2C4WPSznnGsgGPM0dbpzidB0W7t000Y6oSF3sxQ_LcQzHc/s1600/Faneuil_Logo_@.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjiY89a720rG4ckACDV4i3JxjzzYuXaazG5d0ryQ0eO_0tfiK-BG8buDExA3X32_DQHV6orkDnIuHWxp7z7X-QNN9TpnI8Y2C4WPSznnGsgGPM0dbpzidB0W7t000Y6oSF3sxQ_LcQzHc/s200/Faneuil_Logo_@.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>It’s not every day that you get to work in the same spot where Samuel Adams brought Bostonians together on the eve of the Boston Tea Party or where George Washington toasted the United States of America on its first birthday. As the Marketing Director at Faneuil Hall Marketplace, I help carry the legacy of America’s first marketplace forward. <br /><br />Faneuil Hall is entrenched in its rich past, but part of my job is to make sure it also stays modern. We’ve recently started adding programs that reflect a new, more innovative and independent spirit: on top of the bustling retail space we’re historically known for, we’ve also hosted local musicians, NBC’s <i>The Today Show</i>, an LED light and sound show, pilates bootcamps and the Urban RAID obstacle course race. And each new day brings another new idea. <br /><br />Coordinating all these activities requires a lot of communication and organization. It also requires a reliable technology platform - something we didn’t have until we moved to Google Apps last year. I remember the night I knew we had to switch. I was working late on a project, when all of the sudden I got a notification that my mailbox was full. I’d been using Gmail for my personal email and knew it would be a better solution for our team not only for storage, but for the rest of the tools in the suite. <br /><br />Getting Apps up and running was a snap. I’m no IT expert, but setting the team up with email and teaching them how to use Calendar, Drive and Docs was simple. In our first week, we set up a shared calendar to track our street performers, visiting artists, and events, so now everyone can see what's going on and when. <br /><br />Apps doesn’t just help us stay organized – it also helps us work better together when we’re away from our desks. Just a few weeks ago, I was doing an on-site walk-through for an upcoming mural when a reporter called looking for pictures for an upcoming article. I jumped on my phone, opened the Drive app, and with just a few clicks, gave her access to the photo folder I had created for press inquiries. <br /><br />I may not be an American Revolutionary, but I still get to help bring millions of people together at one of the country’s most revered landmarks. And thanks to Google Apps, we have the tools to keep our 271-year-old building in the 21st century. </div> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author">Posted by Kristin Phelan, Marketing Director at Faneuil Hall Marketplace</span><br /><br /><i><b>Editor's note:</b> Boston’s changed a bit since Paul Revere set out on his famous midnight horseback ride in 1775. Belichick and Brady hadn’t met yet, the curse of the Big Bambino had yet to be cast (then broken), and Ben and Matt hadn’t won an Oscar for “Good Will Hunting.” But one thing has stayed the same in Boston over time: the city has been driven and defined by self-starters and homegrown businesses. <br /><br />We’re wicked excited to highlight a few Boston businesses using Google Apps over the next few weeks. Today, we’ll hear from Kristin Phelan, Marketing Director at <a href="http://www.faneuilhallmarketplace.com/">Faneuil Hall Marketplace</a>, a historic Boston landmark. See what other organizations that have gone Google <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/customers.html#utm_medium=blog&utm_source=en-na-us-entblog-Faneuil03112013&utm_campaign=en_us">have to say</a>.</i><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjiY89a720rG4ckACDV4i3JxjzzYuXaazG5d0ryQ0eO_0tfiK-BG8buDExA3X32_DQHV6orkDnIuHWxp7z7X-QNN9TpnI8Y2C4WPSznnGsgGPM0dbpzidB0W7t000Y6oSF3sxQ_LcQzHc/s1600/Faneuil_Logo_@.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjiY89a720rG4ckACDV4i3JxjzzYuXaazG5d0ryQ0eO_0tfiK-BG8buDExA3X32_DQHV6orkDnIuHWxp7z7X-QNN9TpnI8Y2C4WPSznnGsgGPM0dbpzidB0W7t000Y6oSF3sxQ_LcQzHc/s200/Faneuil_Logo_@.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>It’s not every day that you get to work in the same spot where Samuel Adams brought Bostonians together on the eve of the Boston Tea Party or where George Washington toasted the United States of America on its first birthday. As the Marketing Director at Faneuil Hall Marketplace, I help carry the legacy of America’s first marketplace forward. <br /><br />Faneuil Hall is entrenched in its rich past, but part of my job is to make sure it also stays modern. We’ve recently started adding programs that reflect a new, more innovative and independent spirit: on top of the bustling retail space we’re historically known for, we’ve also hosted local musicians, NBC’s <i>The Today Show</i>, an LED light and sound show, pilates bootcamps and the Urban RAID obstacle course race. And each new day brings another new idea. <br /><br />Coordinating all these activities requires a lot of communication and organization. It also requires a reliable technology platform - something we didn’t have until we moved to Google Apps last year. I remember the night I knew we had to switch. I was working late on a project, when all of the sudden I got a notification that my mailbox was full. I’d been using Gmail for my personal email and knew it would be a better solution for our team not only for storage, but for the rest of the tools in the suite. <br /><br />Getting Apps up and running was a snap. I’m no IT expert, but setting the team up with email and teaching them how to use Calendar, Drive and Docs was simple. In our first week, we set up a shared calendar to track our street performers, visiting artists, and events, so now everyone can see what's going on and when. <br /><br />Apps doesn’t just help us stay organized – it also helps us work better together when we’re away from our desks. Just a few weeks ago, I was doing an on-site walk-through for an upcoming mural when a reporter called looking for pictures for an upcoming article. I jumped on my phone, opened the Drive app, and with just a few clicks, gave her access to the photo folder I had created for press inquiries. <br /><br />I may not be an American Revolutionary, but I still get to help bring millions of people together at one of the country’s most revered landmarks. And thanks to Google Apps, we have the tools to keep our 271-year-old building in the 21st century. </div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/03/faneuil-hall-marketplace-has-gone-google.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Faneuil Hall Marketplace has gone Google&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/03/faneuil-hall-marketplace-has-gone-google.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/03/faneuil-hall-marketplace-has-gone-google.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='0' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/03/faneuil-hall-marketplace-has-gone-google.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/03/faneuil-hall-marketplace-has-gone-google.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/03/faneuil-hall-marketplace-has-gone-google.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Boston' rel='tag'> Boston </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/customer%20love' rel='tag'> customer love </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Gone%20Google' rel='tag'> Gone Google </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/gonegoogle' rel='tag'> gonegoogle </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/small%20business' rel='tag'> small business </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/SMB' rel='tag'> SMB </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/success%20story' rel='tag'> success story </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='4156756038150832748' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/02/google-apps-is-hit-at-classic-cinemas.html' itemprop='url' title='Google Apps Is a Hit At Classic Cinemas'> Google Apps Is a Hit At Classic Cinemas </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Wednesday, February 27, 2013 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author">Posted by Tristan Dobbs, Managing Director of IT for Classic Cinemas</span><br /><br /><i><b>Editor's note:</b> Our guest blogger this week is Tristan Dobbs, Technical Services Team Guru for <a href="http://www.classiccinemas.com/">Classic Cinemas</a>, a family-owned movie theater chain based in Downers Grove, IL. See what other organizations that have gone Google <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/customers.html#utm_medium=blog&utm_source=en-na-us-entblog-ClassicCinemas02272013&utm_campaign=en_us">have to say</a>.</i><br /><i><br /></i><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh90SEuWTe_17AsTnsGO32mWSDbo03rWCKHl-nji7gf_h3dc905BrInYVlzMrvbfHM8Y6uKiB7xiKMn8rzXk0o3CyU7MumQDDGMqqOfTkJtv2LpDpGfqsawm-gI-A-xjLdSvWMBpVVO1D4/s1600/classic-cinemas.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="111" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh90SEuWTe_17AsTnsGO32mWSDbo03rWCKHl-nji7gf_h3dc905BrInYVlzMrvbfHM8Y6uKiB7xiKMn8rzXk0o3CyU7MumQDDGMqqOfTkJtv2LpDpGfqsawm-gI-A-xjLdSvWMBpVVO1D4/s400/classic-cinemas.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Classic Cinemas has been bringing families, couples, kids and film enthusiasts together in front of the silver screen for more than thirty years – around the time Christopher Reeve donned the famous tights and cape for “Superman” in 1978. Over the years, we’ve grown to 500 employees and over 13 movie theaters in and around Chicago. We’ve also outgrown the film technology we started with. After years of using 35-millimeter film projection systems, we upgraded to 4K Ultra High-Def Digital Projectors. We’re a true 21st century cinema.<br /><br />When I joined the IT department in 2012, it was clear we were in need of another upgrade – this time, from our Microsoft Exchange server. We had ongoing issues with downtime that cost the company a lot of money and the IT team a lot of time. We looked into cloud-based systems and Google Apps was exactly what we needed – the 99.9 percent uptime sold us. <br /><br />We switched to Google Apps with the help of <a href="http://www.cloudsherpas.com/">Cloud Sherpas</a> in August 2012 and couldn’t have been in better hands. At no point did we ever have a question that they couldn't answer. Data migration? They walked us through each step along the way and made sure we didn't lose a single megabyte. Change management? They ran webinars for all of our employees about moving from Outlook to Gmail, Word to Docs and Folders to Labels. They made switching feel seamless. <br /><br />We created an employee intranet on Google Sites that houses all our necessary documents – employee schedules, upcoming screenings, movie schedules and parking lists, among others. This means everything important sits in one single place, and everyone on the team can access it. No more wild goose chases over email and no more bothering groups of people with email barrages. <br /><br />Google Apps also helped us bring our maintenance request system up to date. Before we switched over, people wrote out their problems in a Word doc and emailed them to us, then we printed them out, tracked them on a bulletin board, and took them down one by one as the maintenance team went on-site to handle each issue. With Cloud Sherpas’ help, we built a Google Form on our intranet, so now everyone submits their requests online. The Form automatically feeds into a spreadsheet, which alerts the maintenance team that work needs to be done. We’ve been able to dramatically reduce administration time and boost our productivity to a new level. We now have complete history and statistics capabilities, as well as the ability to identify trends and be more proactive. <br /><br />Just as digital technology helped us move into the modern era of film, Google Apps has helped us adapt to the future of business. It’s been a smash hit for us - just like “Superman” was back in the day. </div> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author">Posted by Tristan Dobbs, Managing Director of IT for Classic Cinemas</span><br /><br /><i><b>Editor's note:</b> Our guest blogger this week is Tristan Dobbs, Technical Services Team Guru for <a href="http://www.classiccinemas.com/">Classic Cinemas</a>, a family-owned movie theater chain based in Downers Grove, IL. See what other organizations that have gone Google <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/customers.html#utm_medium=blog&utm_source=en-na-us-entblog-ClassicCinemas02272013&utm_campaign=en_us">have to say</a>.</i><br /><i><br /></i><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh90SEuWTe_17AsTnsGO32mWSDbo03rWCKHl-nji7gf_h3dc905BrInYVlzMrvbfHM8Y6uKiB7xiKMn8rzXk0o3CyU7MumQDDGMqqOfTkJtv2LpDpGfqsawm-gI-A-xjLdSvWMBpVVO1D4/s1600/classic-cinemas.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="111" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh90SEuWTe_17AsTnsGO32mWSDbo03rWCKHl-nji7gf_h3dc905BrInYVlzMrvbfHM8Y6uKiB7xiKMn8rzXk0o3CyU7MumQDDGMqqOfTkJtv2LpDpGfqsawm-gI-A-xjLdSvWMBpVVO1D4/s400/classic-cinemas.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Classic Cinemas has been bringing families, couples, kids and film enthusiasts together in front of the silver screen for more than thirty years – around the time Christopher Reeve donned the famous tights and cape for “Superman” in 1978. Over the years, we’ve grown to 500 employees and over 13 movie theaters in and around Chicago. We’ve also outgrown the film technology we started with. After years of using 35-millimeter film projection systems, we upgraded to 4K Ultra High-Def Digital Projectors. We’re a true 21st century cinema.<br /><br />When I joined the IT department in 2012, it was clear we were in need of another upgrade – this time, from our Microsoft Exchange server. We had ongoing issues with downtime that cost the company a lot of money and the IT team a lot of time. We looked into cloud-based systems and Google Apps was exactly what we needed – the 99.9 percent uptime sold us. <br /><br />We switched to Google Apps with the help of <a href="http://www.cloudsherpas.com/">Cloud Sherpas</a> in August 2012 and couldn’t have been in better hands. At no point did we ever have a question that they couldn't answer. Data migration? They walked us through each step along the way and made sure we didn't lose a single megabyte. Change management? They ran webinars for all of our employees about moving from Outlook to Gmail, Word to Docs and Folders to Labels. They made switching feel seamless. <br /><br />We created an employee intranet on Google Sites that houses all our necessary documents – employee schedules, upcoming screenings, movie schedules and parking lists, among others. This means everything important sits in one single place, and everyone on the team can access it. No more wild goose chases over email and no more bothering groups of people with email barrages. <br /><br />Google Apps also helped us bring our maintenance request system up to date. Before we switched over, people wrote out their problems in a Word doc and emailed them to us, then we printed them out, tracked them on a bulletin board, and took them down one by one as the maintenance team went on-site to handle each issue. With Cloud Sherpas’ help, we built a Google Form on our intranet, so now everyone submits their requests online. The Form automatically feeds into a spreadsheet, which alerts the maintenance team that work needs to be done. We’ve been able to dramatically reduce administration time and boost our productivity to a new level. We now have complete history and statistics capabilities, as well as the ability to identify trends and be more proactive. <br /><br />Just as digital technology helped us move into the modern era of film, Google Apps has helped us adapt to the future of business. It’s been a smash hit for us - just like “Superman” was back in the day. </div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/02/google-apps-is-hit-at-classic-cinemas.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Google Apps Is a Hit At Classic Cinemas&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/02/google-apps-is-hit-at-classic-cinemas.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/02/google-apps-is-hit-at-classic-cinemas.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='8' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/02/google-apps-is-hit-at-classic-cinemas.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/02/google-apps-is-hit-at-classic-cinemas.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/02/google-apps-is-hit-at-classic-cinemas.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/cloud%20computing' rel='tag'> cloud computing </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/customer%20love' rel='tag'> customer love </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Customer%20testimonial' rel='tag'> Customer testimonial </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Apps' rel='tag'> Google Apps </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Apps%20Reseller' rel='tag'> Google Apps Reseller </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/partner' rel='tag'> partner </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/partners' rel='tag'> partners </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/small%20business' rel='tag'> small business </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/SMB' rel='tag'> SMB </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='4504099081988551989' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/02/icom-productions-pushes-elearning.html' itemprop='url' title='ICOM Productions pushes the eLearning envelope with Google Apps'> ICOM Productions pushes the eLearning envelope with Google Apps </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Friday, February 15, 2013 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author">Posted by Jared Tabler, Vice President of Operations at ICOM Productions</span><br /><br /><i><b>Editor's note:</b> Our guest blogger is Jared Tabler, Vice President of Operations at <a href="http://www.icomproductions.ca/">ICOM Productions</a>, a Calgary, Alberta-based eLearning company. See what other organizations that have gone Google <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/customers.html#utm_medium=blog&utm_source=en-na-us-entblog-ICOM02152013&utm_campaign=en_us">have to say</a>.</i><br /><i><br /></i> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzmrzp2YdW425_sY8fxyatXSUfMg48ekJX4z0431OsSJiklpcT6v5lbLgtfHO_V5M7-9oL3jbFOlUmZx15qqQgq02xGR-oUbsgItXVJmpPqvVWTzQw5bglN3CPxuB0wLxjoL4EWbvFOD0/s1600/ICOM+Productions.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzmrzp2YdW425_sY8fxyatXSUfMg48ekJX4z0431OsSJiklpcT6v5lbLgtfHO_V5M7-9oL3jbFOlUmZx15qqQgq02xGR-oUbsgItXVJmpPqvVWTzQw5bglN3CPxuB0wLxjoL4EWbvFOD0/s320/ICOM+Productions.jpg" /></a></div>ICOM Productions is a 100-person company focused on helping companies better engage and develop their employees by freshening up their training programs. We pride ourselves on being progressive, young and vibrant; we encourage our employees to question old habits, push the envelope and change the way we teach and learn every day. <br /><br />When I joined as VP of Operations less than a year ago, I was shocked by how our progressive mentality clashed with our old, slow and unreliable technology. We were using a piecemeal technology solution built around Microsoft® Exchange that made everyday processes disjointed and inefficient. We wanted employees from each of our three offices to be able to collaborate on projects, but the process of emailing versions back and forth and editing them in silos wasn't quite the collaboration we were looking for. We knew we needed something better, but upgrading to the newest Exchange Server would have cost us a fortune and still leave us three years behind the latest technology. <br /><br />It turned out that our forward-thinking employees were pushing the envelope with technology on the side, too: they'd started using their personal Google accounts at work. They were sharing files through Google Drive and creating project hubs with Google Sites. Over the next few months, we talked with our employees and <a href="http://www.agosto.com/">Agosto</a>, a Google Apps Reseller, and we came to a clear conclusion: moving ICOM to Google Apps was the best path forward. In the Fall of 2012, Agosto partnered with our technical team to put a migration plan in place, and 30 days later, all 100 employees were on Apps. It was the fastest IT implementation I’ve ever done. <br /><br />Google+ Hangouts have completely revolutionized our recruiting process. Instead of relying on phone screenings, which don’t really convey a candidate’s personality, or flying people to Calgary, which is expensive, we use Hangouts, which cost nothing and bring each prospect’s character to life. We like to do group interviews via Hangouts to see how people think and interact - group collaboration is huge at ICOM, and you get a good sense of that over video conference. Our candidates love that we’re using new technology and we love that we’re still getting the same valuable insight about our candidates. <br /><br />Google Apps has helped us be more efficient, more forward-thinking and more cost-effective. It’s also helped us strengthen the ICOM culture we pride ourselves on - being creative, asking thought-provoking questions and working as a team. All of this, of course, means that we’re getting better at what we do: helping other companies teach and train their employees more effectively. Just like what Apps has done for us.</div> </script> <noscript> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author">Posted by Jared Tabler, Vice President of Operations at ICOM Productions</span><br /><br /><i><b>Editor's note:</b> Our guest blogger is Jared Tabler, Vice President of Operations at <a href="http://www.icomproductions.ca/">ICOM Productions</a>, a Calgary, Alberta-based eLearning company. See what other organizations that have gone Google <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/customers.html#utm_medium=blog&utm_source=en-na-us-entblog-ICOM02152013&utm_campaign=en_us">have to say</a>.</i><br /><i><br /></i> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzmrzp2YdW425_sY8fxyatXSUfMg48ekJX4z0431OsSJiklpcT6v5lbLgtfHO_V5M7-9oL3jbFOlUmZx15qqQgq02xGR-oUbsgItXVJmpPqvVWTzQw5bglN3CPxuB0wLxjoL4EWbvFOD0/s1600/ICOM+Productions.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzmrzp2YdW425_sY8fxyatXSUfMg48ekJX4z0431OsSJiklpcT6v5lbLgtfHO_V5M7-9oL3jbFOlUmZx15qqQgq02xGR-oUbsgItXVJmpPqvVWTzQw5bglN3CPxuB0wLxjoL4EWbvFOD0/s320/ICOM+Productions.jpg" /></a></div>ICOM Productions is a 100-person company focused on helping companies better engage and develop their employees by freshening up their training programs. We pride ourselves on being progressive, young and vibrant; we encourage our employees to question old habits, push the envelope and change the way we teach and learn every day. <br /><br />When I joined as VP of Operations less than a year ago, I was shocked by how our progressive mentality clashed with our old, slow and unreliable technology. We were using a piecemeal technology solution built around Microsoft® Exchange that made everyday processes disjointed and inefficient. We wanted employees from each of our three offices to be able to collaborate on projects, but the process of emailing versions back and forth and editing them in silos wasn't quite the collaboration we were looking for. We knew we needed something better, but upgrading to the newest Exchange Server would have cost us a fortune and still leave us three years behind the latest technology. <br /><br />It turned out that our forward-thinking employees were pushing the envelope with technology on the side, too: they'd started using their personal Google accounts at work. They were sharing files through Google Drive and creating project hubs with Google Sites. Over the next few months, we talked with our employees and <a href="http://www.agosto.com/">Agosto</a>, a Google Apps Reseller, and we came to a clear conclusion: moving ICOM to Google Apps was the best path forward. In the Fall of 2012, Agosto partnered with our technical team to put a migration plan in place, and 30 days later, all 100 employees were on Apps. It was the fastest IT implementation I’ve ever done. <br /><br />Google+ Hangouts have completely revolutionized our recruiting process. Instead of relying on phone screenings, which don’t really convey a candidate’s personality, or flying people to Calgary, which is expensive, we use Hangouts, which cost nothing and bring each prospect’s character to life. We like to do group interviews via Hangouts to see how people think and interact - group collaboration is huge at ICOM, and you get a good sense of that over video conference. Our candidates love that we’re using new technology and we love that we’re still getting the same valuable insight about our candidates. <br /><br />Google Apps has helped us be more efficient, more forward-thinking and more cost-effective. It’s also helped us strengthen the ICOM culture we pride ourselves on - being creative, asking thought-provoking questions and working as a team. All of this, of course, means that we’re getting better at what we do: helping other companies teach and train their employees more effectively. Just like what Apps has done for us.</div> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/02/icom-productions-pushes-elearning.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:ICOM Productions pushes the eLearning envelope with Google Apps&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/02/icom-productions-pushes-elearning.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/02/icom-productions-pushes-elearning.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='0' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/02/icom-productions-pushes-elearning.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/02/icom-productions-pushes-elearning.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/02/icom-productions-pushes-elearning.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/customer%20love' rel='tag'> customer love </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Gone%20Google' rel='tag'> Gone Google </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/gonegoogle' rel='tag'> gonegoogle </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/small%20business' rel='tag'> small business </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/SMB' rel='tag'> SMB </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/success%20story' rel='tag'> success story </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='2832732530935733567' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/02/allrecipescom-spices-up-recipe-world.html' itemprop='url' title='Allrecipes.com spices up the recipe world with Google Apps'> Allrecipes.com spices up the recipe world with Google Apps </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Monday, February 11, 2013 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <span class="byline-author">Posted by David Gendel, Corporate IT Director at Allrecipes.com</span><br><br><i><b>Editor's note:</b> Today’s guest blogger is David Gendel, Corporate IT Director at <a href="http://www.allrecipes.com ">Allrecipes.com</a>, the world’s largest digital food brand. See what other organizations that have gone Google <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/customers.html#utm_medium=blog&utm_source=en-na-us-entblog-AllRecipes02112013&utm_campaign=en_us">have to say</a>.</i><br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKlRHz4SypA4m75R0B3xaDPeN6oe6Pc6LCXGFl5e4Q8JLWnCdxfhbNnH6991AGE1_X2F3qj6armb-YGYFv_seb_ebFuWPyvhGdCTTh9QNtEt2cYDjHCLnaWVHTKkHBhA8JZ2FzGgUbkiw/s1600/AllRecipes.com_blog+post+photo" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKlRHz4SypA4m75R0B3xaDPeN6oe6Pc6LCXGFl5e4Q8JLWnCdxfhbNnH6991AGE1_X2F3qj6armb-YGYFv_seb_ebFuWPyvhGdCTTh9QNtEt2cYDjHCLnaWVHTKkHBhA8JZ2FzGgUbkiw/s320/AllRecipes.com_blog+post+photo" width="320" /></a></div> <a href="http://allrecipes.com/">Allrecipes.com</a> started in 1997, when Tim Hunt couldn’t find his favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe online. He vowed that other cooks like him shouldn’t have to deal with the same problem, and started CookieRecipe.com. From there, he created even more recipe sites that eventually came together into the site we know today: Allrecipes.com. Fifteen years after that cookie baking epiphany, we have more than one million user-generated recipes and 30 million visitors per month. That’s a lot of people looking for more than just chocolate chip treats. <br><br>I took over as IT director for Allrecipes.com a year ago, and fixing our aging email system sat at the very top of my first to-do list. We culled our top options—Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Office 365, and Google Apps for Business—and put them through the ringer. After testing, analysis, and focus groups, Google Apps came out on top. With the help of our partner, <a href="http://www.cloudsherpas.com/">Cloud Sherpas</a>, we moved all of Allrecipes.com employees over. Changing old habits is hard, especially when it comes to technology, but after just five months, it feels like Google Apps is second nature to us. <br><br>We want all of our employees to be able to work from wherever they are, with whatever device they have with them. With Google Apps, they can do just that - we use a mixture of mobile devices and operating systems, and our teams can switch seamlessly between them. I don’t always have my laptop with me, but with the Google Drive mobile app, I just jump into a doc on my smartphone or tablet to review or edit it, whether it’s during a meeting or on the way to the airport. Needing to fix a document on the fly doesn’t mean needing a computer anymore. We move quickly. Apps moves with us. <br><br>Hangouts also help us stay connected. Our social media manager recently moved to Australia, but with Hangouts, it’s almost as if she never left. We have video conferences with her throughout the week, and you wouldn’t know she’s halfway around the world. Our technical teams also use Hangouts for off-hours maintenance. They get excited about being able to see who they’re working with as if they were both in the office, interacting as if they were in person, and sharing their screens to help expedite problem solving. We love that video conferencing is so seamlessly integrated with the entire Apps suite, and we don’t have to use or pay for a separate program. <br><br>Food is more than just food – it brings people together and creates shared experiences. At Allrecipes.com, we’re proud to provide so many people with the foundation for those experiences. Google Apps brings our company closer so we can focus on helping home cooks make magic in their kitchens, one cookie or casserole at a time. </script> <noscript> <span class="byline-author">Posted by David Gendel, Corporate IT Director at Allrecipes.com</span><br><br><i><b>Editor's note:</b> Today’s guest blogger is David Gendel, Corporate IT Director at <a href="http://www.allrecipes.com ">Allrecipes.com</a>, the world’s largest digital food brand. See what other organizations that have gone Google <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/customers.html#utm_medium=blog&utm_source=en-na-us-entblog-AllRecipes02112013&utm_campaign=en_us">have to say</a>.</i><br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKlRHz4SypA4m75R0B3xaDPeN6oe6Pc6LCXGFl5e4Q8JLWnCdxfhbNnH6991AGE1_X2F3qj6armb-YGYFv_seb_ebFuWPyvhGdCTTh9QNtEt2cYDjHCLnaWVHTKkHBhA8JZ2FzGgUbkiw/s1600/AllRecipes.com_blog+post+photo" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKlRHz4SypA4m75R0B3xaDPeN6oe6Pc6LCXGFl5e4Q8JLWnCdxfhbNnH6991AGE1_X2F3qj6armb-YGYFv_seb_ebFuWPyvhGdCTTh9QNtEt2cYDjHCLnaWVHTKkHBhA8JZ2FzGgUbkiw/s320/AllRecipes.com_blog+post+photo" width="320" /></a></div> <a href="http://allrecipes.com/">Allrecipes.com</a> started in 1997, when Tim Hunt couldn’t find his favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe online. He vowed that other cooks like him shouldn’t have to deal with the same problem, and started CookieRecipe.com. From there, he created even more recipe sites that eventually came together into the site we know today: Allrecipes.com. Fifteen years after that cookie baking epiphany, we have more than one million user-generated recipes and 30 million visitors per month. That’s a lot of people looking for more than just chocolate chip treats. <br><br>I took over as IT director for Allrecipes.com a year ago, and fixing our aging email system sat at the very top of my first to-do list. We culled our top options—Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Office 365, and Google Apps for Business—and put them through the ringer. After testing, analysis, and focus groups, Google Apps came out on top. With the help of our partner, <a href="http://www.cloudsherpas.com/">Cloud Sherpas</a>, we moved all of Allrecipes.com employees over. Changing old habits is hard, especially when it comes to technology, but after just five months, it feels like Google Apps is second nature to us. <br><br>We want all of our employees to be able to work from wherever they are, with whatever device they have with them. With Google Apps, they can do just that - we use a mixture of mobile devices and operating systems, and our teams can switch seamlessly between them. I don’t always have my laptop with me, but with the Google Drive mobile app, I just jump into a doc on my smartphone or tablet to review or edit it, whether it’s during a meeting or on the way to the airport. Needing to fix a document on the fly doesn’t mean needing a computer anymore. We move quickly. Apps moves with us. <br><br>Hangouts also help us stay connected. Our social media manager recently moved to Australia, but with Hangouts, it’s almost as if she never left. We have video conferences with her throughout the week, and you wouldn’t know she’s halfway around the world. Our technical teams also use Hangouts for off-hours maintenance. They get excited about being able to see who they’re working with as if they were both in the office, interacting as if they were in person, and sharing their screens to help expedite problem solving. We love that video conferencing is so seamlessly integrated with the entire Apps suite, and we don’t have to use or pay for a separate program. <br><br>Food is more than just food – it brings people together and creates shared experiences. At Allrecipes.com, we’re proud to provide so many people with the foundation for those experiences. Google Apps brings our company closer so we can focus on helping home cooks make magic in their kitchens, one cookie or casserole at a time. </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/02/allrecipescom-spices-up-recipe-world.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Allrecipes.com spices up the recipe world with Google Apps&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/02/allrecipescom-spices-up-recipe-world.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/02/allrecipescom-spices-up-recipe-world.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='0' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/02/allrecipescom-spices-up-recipe-world.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/02/allrecipescom-spices-up-recipe-world.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/02/allrecipescom-spices-up-recipe-world.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/customer%20love' rel='tag'> customer love </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Gone%20Google' rel='tag'> Gone Google </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/gonegoogle' rel='tag'> gonegoogle </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/guest%20post' rel='tag'> guest post </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/small%20business' rel='tag'> small business </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/SMB' rel='tag'> SMB </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/success%20story' rel='tag'> success story </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='7356711614035995379' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/01/quixote-studios-helps-hollywood-visions.html' itemprop='url' title='Quixote Studios helps Hollywood visions come alive with Google Apps'> Quixote Studios helps Hollywood visions come alive with Google Apps </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Friday, January 25, 2013 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Bill Schechtman, IT Director at Quixote Studios</span><br><br><i><b>Editor's note:</b> Our guest blogger is Bill Schechtman, IT Director at <a href="http://www.quixote.com/">Quixote Studios</a>, a Los Angeles-based company that rents stages, vehicles and production supplies for photo shoots and movie and TV productions. See what other organizations that have gone Google <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/customers.html#utm_medium=blog&utm_source=en-na-us-entblog-Quixote01252013&utm_campaign=en_us">have to say.</a></i><br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLjxiDr3-haf2__iolJ5WpGY7kKNZT6AlxmiG1FsngWgbS2GYBr7tkeKPVqZea1VKPOCl95Fzmx6_PIQK9IV_-edjlw6UQbxaWwHShOV0eblmef4g2JYgE7ZlPsoXumBEv7b673lc2FT0/s1600/Quixote+Studios.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLjxiDr3-haf2__iolJ5WpGY7kKNZT6AlxmiG1FsngWgbS2GYBr7tkeKPVqZea1VKPOCl95Fzmx6_PIQK9IV_-edjlw6UQbxaWwHShOV0eblmef4g2JYgE7ZlPsoXumBEv7b673lc2FT0/s320/Quixote+Studios.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> At Quixote Studios, we work with the bleeding edge of American pop culture. We’ve hosted <a href="http://www.smashboxstudios.com/blog/2012/08/shotsmashbox-the-madonna-archives/">pop legends like Madonna</a>, brought Jay-Z’s “<a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WM1RChZk1EU">On To The Next One</a>” to life, and stood in for countless precinct offices, crime scenes and killers’ hideouts on the CBS show “<a href="http://www.cbs.com/shows/criminal_minds/">Criminal Minds</a>.” We have more than 200 employees at six locations giving studios what they need to make movies, helping photographers and fashion houses make their clothes look stunning, and playing a part in bringing the television shows you love to the small screen every week. <br><br>We work in a forward-leaning industry, but until we moved to Google Apps for Business, we worked with painfully outdated technology. Our server was unreliable and our employees couldn’t access email from their smartphones. Fixing these and a host of other problems was my first priority when I joined Quixote Studios as IT Director two years ago. We considered Microsoft Exchange, but the storage, licensing and support costs were more than we bargained for. We also looked at Office 365, but it didn’t offer the full suite of tools we needed or the simple pricing structure Google Apps has. So, with the help of our reseller, <a href="http://www.ditoweb.com/">Dito</a>, we switched to Apps. <br><br>We started with the fundamentals: moving everyone to Gmail and setting up device syncing so people could access email from their phones and tablets. Before we knew it, we started seeing employees picking up more advanced product features on their own: shared calendars became a company standard and Docs became the norm for team meeting notes. <br><br>But Google Drive has been the real revelation. Every important document in our company is stored in Drive, from onboarding and exit forms to organizational charts, permits and checklists. It's a far cry from our old system, a complicated file server that was stuffed full of different versions of Microsoft Word and Excel files, all with their own cryptic names for versions or dates. <br><br>Drive has also dramatically improved the way we collaborate. Creating our company all-hands presentations, for example, is a team effort that involves up to ten stakeholders working together on a single document at the same time. It's powerful to see that many employees collaborating so seamlessly and efficiently. It's even more exciting to think about how much time we save by eliminating the need to send attachments back and forth or check that we're working on the most up-to-date version. <br><br>Google Apps has helped turn technology into an incredible resource for our employees – smooth, hassle-free email and an easy collaboration hub. Now we can put all of our energy into helping our clients do great things. As someone in charge of IT, it’s comforting to know those systems will grow right alongside Quixote Studios as we continue to help make Hollywood’s big ideas come to life. And Scene! </script> <noscript> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Bill Schechtman, IT Director at Quixote Studios</span><br><br><i><b>Editor's note:</b> Our guest blogger is Bill Schechtman, IT Director at <a href="http://www.quixote.com/">Quixote Studios</a>, a Los Angeles-based company that rents stages, vehicles and production supplies for photo shoots and movie and TV productions. See what other organizations that have gone Google <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/customers.html#utm_medium=blog&utm_source=en-na-us-entblog-Quixote01252013&utm_campaign=en_us">have to say.</a></i><br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLjxiDr3-haf2__iolJ5WpGY7kKNZT6AlxmiG1FsngWgbS2GYBr7tkeKPVqZea1VKPOCl95Fzmx6_PIQK9IV_-edjlw6UQbxaWwHShOV0eblmef4g2JYgE7ZlPsoXumBEv7b673lc2FT0/s1600/Quixote+Studios.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLjxiDr3-haf2__iolJ5WpGY7kKNZT6AlxmiG1FsngWgbS2GYBr7tkeKPVqZea1VKPOCl95Fzmx6_PIQK9IV_-edjlw6UQbxaWwHShOV0eblmef4g2JYgE7ZlPsoXumBEv7b673lc2FT0/s320/Quixote+Studios.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> At Quixote Studios, we work with the bleeding edge of American pop culture. We’ve hosted <a href="http://www.smashboxstudios.com/blog/2012/08/shotsmashbox-the-madonna-archives/">pop legends like Madonna</a>, brought Jay-Z’s “<a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WM1RChZk1EU">On To The Next One</a>” to life, and stood in for countless precinct offices, crime scenes and killers’ hideouts on the CBS show “<a href="http://www.cbs.com/shows/criminal_minds/">Criminal Minds</a>.” We have more than 200 employees at six locations giving studios what they need to make movies, helping photographers and fashion houses make their clothes look stunning, and playing a part in bringing the television shows you love to the small screen every week. <br><br>We work in a forward-leaning industry, but until we moved to Google Apps for Business, we worked with painfully outdated technology. Our server was unreliable and our employees couldn’t access email from their smartphones. Fixing these and a host of other problems was my first priority when I joined Quixote Studios as IT Director two years ago. We considered Microsoft Exchange, but the storage, licensing and support costs were more than we bargained for. We also looked at Office 365, but it didn’t offer the full suite of tools we needed or the simple pricing structure Google Apps has. So, with the help of our reseller, <a href="http://www.ditoweb.com/">Dito</a>, we switched to Apps. <br><br>We started with the fundamentals: moving everyone to Gmail and setting up device syncing so people could access email from their phones and tablets. Before we knew it, we started seeing employees picking up more advanced product features on their own: shared calendars became a company standard and Docs became the norm for team meeting notes. <br><br>But Google Drive has been the real revelation. Every important document in our company is stored in Drive, from onboarding and exit forms to organizational charts, permits and checklists. It's a far cry from our old system, a complicated file server that was stuffed full of different versions of Microsoft Word and Excel files, all with their own cryptic names for versions or dates. <br><br>Drive has also dramatically improved the way we collaborate. Creating our company all-hands presentations, for example, is a team effort that involves up to ten stakeholders working together on a single document at the same time. It's powerful to see that many employees collaborating so seamlessly and efficiently. It's even more exciting to think about how much time we save by eliminating the need to send attachments back and forth or check that we're working on the most up-to-date version. <br><br>Google Apps has helped turn technology into an incredible resource for our employees – smooth, hassle-free email and an easy collaboration hub. Now we can put all of our energy into helping our clients do great things. As someone in charge of IT, it’s comforting to know those systems will grow right alongside Quixote Studios as we continue to help make Hollywood’s big ideas come to life. And Scene! </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/01/quixote-studios-helps-hollywood-visions.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Quixote Studios helps Hollywood visions come alive with Google Apps&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/01/quixote-studios-helps-hollywood-visions.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/01/quixote-studios-helps-hollywood-visions.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='2' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/01/quixote-studios-helps-hollywood-visions.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/01/quixote-studios-helps-hollywood-visions.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/01/quixote-studios-helps-hollywood-visions.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/customer%20love' rel='tag'> customer love </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Gone%20Google' rel='tag'> Gone Google </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/gonegoogle' rel='tag'> gonegoogle </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/guest%20post' rel='tag'> guest post </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/small%20business' rel='tag'> small business </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/SMB' rel='tag'> SMB </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/success%20story' rel='tag'> success story </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='3017202526355451993' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/01/scranton-gillette-stays-current-across.html' itemprop='url' title='Scranton Gillette stays current across centuries with Google Apps'> Scranton Gillette stays current across centuries with Google Apps </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Wednesday, January 9, 2013 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Joel Hughes, Senior Vice President of eMedia strategy and IT at Scranton Gillette</span><br><br><i><b>Editor's note:</b> Our guest blogger this week is Joel Hughes, Senior Vice President of eMedia strategy and IT at Scranton Gillette, a media and publishing company based in Arlington Heights, Illinois. See what other organizations that have gone Google <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/customers.html#utm_medium=blog&utm_source=en-na-us-entblog-ScrantonGillette01092013&utm_campaign=en_us">have to say</a>.</i><br><br> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRNz_hOCo1B5cLOekdobI3II6C2dZGH5Bxc4BoDiuTVIvMdlmYzikzgs15vgXnZSmzwUjvqcRlf_7bv2uQebhAcZ7rN4V9blEktCpV5QEr32I4oc1snffRwFOyBeLJpVw106xZCnsP0wg/s1600/Scranton+Gillette_blog+post+photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:right; float:right; margin-left:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRNz_hOCo1B5cLOekdobI3II6C2dZGH5Bxc4BoDiuTVIvMdlmYzikzgs15vgXnZSmzwUjvqcRlf_7bv2uQebhAcZ7rN4V9blEktCpV5QEr32I4oc1snffRwFOyBeLJpVw106xZCnsP0wg/s320/Scranton+Gillette_blog+post+photo.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <a href="http://www.scrantongillette.com">Scranton Gillette</a> has been around for more than a century - we’ve lived to see the first Model T, a man walk on the moon and the birth of the Internet. We’re a media and publishing company, so you can imagine our industry has changed quite a bit since we were founded 108 years ago (typewriters, anyone?). It's not easy to keep afloat in the business world, let alone in a market that’s undergone so many massive and fundamental changes. But we've been fortunate enough not only to survive, but to thrive, and we owe much of that to our technology. <br><br> We first opened our doors in 1905 as a publisher dedicated entirely to the transportation construction industry. We’re still a publisher, and we still cover the transportation construction industry, but now we're a full-service media agency that covers a variety of verticals and helps with everything from website development to event planning. Just as we've outgrown our publisher roots, we've also outgrown the slow-moving stereotype that many associate with the publishing industry. To us, speed and technology are essential to growing our business. Technology can make or break an organization, so if our solution fails or slows us down, we won't hesitate to find something newer and better. <br><br> That’s exactly what happened over the Fourth of July weekend in 2011. Our Exchange server died during the holiday break and left us without email or access to our shared company files. We'd been considering a switch to Google Apps for a few months, so this shutdown solidified our decision. We couldn't be tied to a physical server anymore, let alone an unreliable one. We needed a more trustworthy system that would let us be more quick-moving and nimble, and we knew that meant moving to Google Apps. <br><br>By the time our employees returned to the office after their Independence Day barbeques, we’d already started our migration to Apps with the help of our reseller, <a href="http://www.cloudbakers.com/">CloudBakers</a>. We haven’t looked back since. <br><br>Apps has completely changed the way we communicate. We’re headquartered in Illinois with a satellite office in Arizona, and we want our remote workers to feel just as part of the team as everyone else. Hangouts do exactly this: they facilitate a closer connection and collaboration that conference calls just can’t match. Google Chat is equally integral to our day-to-day. It’s perfect when you’re not in the right place to hop on the phone and need a quicker response than an email typically gets. We didn’t have a dedicated chat client before we moved to Apps, and I can’t imagine going back to that way of working. <br><br>Google Drive has been the biggest eye-opener for us. Documents are our lifeblood, so it's essential for us to have a robust system around organizing and sharing them. Before, we just saved everything to our hard drives and sent files back and forth as attachments. That got messy and confusing fast. Drive gives our documents a better, safer, more accessible home. Our employees store their spreadsheets, presentations, mocks and proofs in one place and share them to the right people with just a few clicks. Our marketing team, for example, has a folder on Drive dedicated to campaign materials, knowing that everyone collaborating on those campaigns—internal and external—can access all the images, ad copy, videos and proofs they need without having to search through their mailbox. It’s comforting to know that every document we need can be found in Drive. <br><br>A company can’t survive for over 100 years without the ability to see trends before they happen and adapt based on those trends. That’s not always easy to do, so you need a technology solution that can adapt as quickly as possible. With Google Apps, we're confident we have the right tools to last us another century. </script> <noscript> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Joel Hughes, Senior Vice President of eMedia strategy and IT at Scranton Gillette</span><br><br><i><b>Editor's note:</b> Our guest blogger this week is Joel Hughes, Senior Vice President of eMedia strategy and IT at Scranton Gillette, a media and publishing company based in Arlington Heights, Illinois. See what other organizations that have gone Google <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/customers.html#utm_medium=blog&utm_source=en-na-us-entblog-ScrantonGillette01092013&utm_campaign=en_us">have to say</a>.</i><br><br> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRNz_hOCo1B5cLOekdobI3II6C2dZGH5Bxc4BoDiuTVIvMdlmYzikzgs15vgXnZSmzwUjvqcRlf_7bv2uQebhAcZ7rN4V9blEktCpV5QEr32I4oc1snffRwFOyBeLJpVw106xZCnsP0wg/s1600/Scranton+Gillette_blog+post+photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:right; float:right; margin-left:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRNz_hOCo1B5cLOekdobI3II6C2dZGH5Bxc4BoDiuTVIvMdlmYzikzgs15vgXnZSmzwUjvqcRlf_7bv2uQebhAcZ7rN4V9blEktCpV5QEr32I4oc1snffRwFOyBeLJpVw106xZCnsP0wg/s320/Scranton+Gillette_blog+post+photo.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <a href="http://www.scrantongillette.com">Scranton Gillette</a> has been around for more than a century - we’ve lived to see the first Model T, a man walk on the moon and the birth of the Internet. We’re a media and publishing company, so you can imagine our industry has changed quite a bit since we were founded 108 years ago (typewriters, anyone?). It's not easy to keep afloat in the business world, let alone in a market that’s undergone so many massive and fundamental changes. But we've been fortunate enough not only to survive, but to thrive, and we owe much of that to our technology. <br><br> We first opened our doors in 1905 as a publisher dedicated entirely to the transportation construction industry. We’re still a publisher, and we still cover the transportation construction industry, but now we're a full-service media agency that covers a variety of verticals and helps with everything from website development to event planning. Just as we've outgrown our publisher roots, we've also outgrown the slow-moving stereotype that many associate with the publishing industry. To us, speed and technology are essential to growing our business. Technology can make or break an organization, so if our solution fails or slows us down, we won't hesitate to find something newer and better. <br><br> That’s exactly what happened over the Fourth of July weekend in 2011. Our Exchange server died during the holiday break and left us without email or access to our shared company files. We'd been considering a switch to Google Apps for a few months, so this shutdown solidified our decision. We couldn't be tied to a physical server anymore, let alone an unreliable one. We needed a more trustworthy system that would let us be more quick-moving and nimble, and we knew that meant moving to Google Apps. <br><br>By the time our employees returned to the office after their Independence Day barbeques, we’d already started our migration to Apps with the help of our reseller, <a href="http://www.cloudbakers.com/">CloudBakers</a>. We haven’t looked back since. <br><br>Apps has completely changed the way we communicate. We’re headquartered in Illinois with a satellite office in Arizona, and we want our remote workers to feel just as part of the team as everyone else. Hangouts do exactly this: they facilitate a closer connection and collaboration that conference calls just can’t match. Google Chat is equally integral to our day-to-day. It’s perfect when you’re not in the right place to hop on the phone and need a quicker response than an email typically gets. We didn’t have a dedicated chat client before we moved to Apps, and I can’t imagine going back to that way of working. <br><br>Google Drive has been the biggest eye-opener for us. Documents are our lifeblood, so it's essential for us to have a robust system around organizing and sharing them. Before, we just saved everything to our hard drives and sent files back and forth as attachments. That got messy and confusing fast. Drive gives our documents a better, safer, more accessible home. Our employees store their spreadsheets, presentations, mocks and proofs in one place and share them to the right people with just a few clicks. Our marketing team, for example, has a folder on Drive dedicated to campaign materials, knowing that everyone collaborating on those campaigns—internal and external—can access all the images, ad copy, videos and proofs they need without having to search through their mailbox. It’s comforting to know that every document we need can be found in Drive. <br><br>A company can’t survive for over 100 years without the ability to see trends before they happen and adapt based on those trends. That’s not always easy to do, so you need a technology solution that can adapt as quickly as possible. With Google Apps, we're confident we have the right tools to last us another century. </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/01/scranton-gillette-stays-current-across.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Scranton Gillette stays current across centuries with Google Apps&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/01/scranton-gillette-stays-current-across.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/01/scranton-gillette-stays-current-across.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='0' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/01/scranton-gillette-stays-current-across.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/01/scranton-gillette-stays-current-across.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2013/01/scranton-gillette-stays-current-across.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/customer%20love' rel='tag'> customer love </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Gone%20Google' rel='tag'> Gone Google </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/gonegoogle' rel='tag'> gonegoogle </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Apps' rel='tag'> Google Apps </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/small%20business' rel='tag'> small business </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/SMB' rel='tag'> SMB </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/success%20story' rel='tag'> success story </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='6979330419606862700' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/10/helping-smbs-save-money-with-cloud.html' itemprop='url' title='Helping SMBs save money with the cloud'> Helping SMBs save money with the cloud </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Friday, October 26, 2012 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Rich Rao, Director of Sales and Operations, Google Enterprise</span><br><br>Working with Google and <a href="http://www.analysisgroup.com/">Analysis Group</a>, MIT research scientist <a href="http://andrewmcafee.org/about/">Andrew McAfee</a> recently conducted a <a href="http://policybythenumbers.blogspot.com/2012/10/modeling-costs-of-cloud-vs-on-premise.html">study</a> to understand the comparative costs of a business moving to the cloud versus remaining with a traditional on-premise IT system. In this comparative cost model, McAfee finds that the typical small- to medium-business (SMB) will significantly reduce its IT costs by doing away with its on-premise technology and moving to the cloud. <br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="//2.bp.blogspot.com/-Cqe_GwUXmU4/UIrEQNtl5bI/AAAAAAAAArw/3VTIvrjNH2w/s1600/mcafee_cloud.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="291" src="//2.bp.blogspot.com/-Cqe_GwUXmU4/UIrEQNtl5bI/AAAAAAAAArw/3VTIvrjNH2w/s400/mcafee_cloud.png" width="400"></a></div><br>For example, a business with 16-100 computers can expect to save 37% by moving to the cloud – even if there’s no IT labor reduction. With savings achieved by moving to the cloud, these businesses are able to invest in areas that help expand or strengthen their business, whether it’s opening a new branch, starting a new product line, or hiring more people. <br><br>Bill Hipsher, Director of Business Development at <a href="http://www.usstoragesearch.com/">USstoragesearch.com</a> confirms, "Over a one-year period, Google Apps cost one-quarter of what we were spending on our on-premise IT before moving to the cloud – and over our business lifetime, it drops to just one-tenth of the cost. The hardware, software and time savings helped us expand our call center, which led to the creation of more than 30 new jobs this year." <br><br>In his study, McAfee also notes that SMBs' technology use is a strong indicator for the future of IT. Because SMBs are more flexible in their decision-making and aren't bogged down by legacy costs, they're able to choose an IT system that best suits their business. Thus, moving to the cloud frees up money for SMBs to drive business and job growth, and can set a precedent for how large businesses adopt cloud technology. <br><br>At Google, we’re proud to work with <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/search/label/small%20business">SMBs across the country</a> to help them save money and move to the cloud. Visit <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/landing/campaign/smb/#carousel=tiger-lily&utm_campaign=en&utm_source=en-redirect-na-smb&utm_medium=redirect&utm_term=smb">our website</a> to learn more about moving your business to Google Apps and <a href="https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjFVAaH_U6vidG9EdFNrN3FyYTFhMWJERG03MERuX2c#gid=32">explore McAfee’s comparative cost model</a> in Google Sheets to adjust and tailor the model to your business. </script> <noscript> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Rich Rao, Director of Sales and Operations, Google Enterprise</span><br><br>Working with Google and <a href="http://www.analysisgroup.com/">Analysis Group</a>, MIT research scientist <a href="http://andrewmcafee.org/about/">Andrew McAfee</a> recently conducted a <a href="http://policybythenumbers.blogspot.com/2012/10/modeling-costs-of-cloud-vs-on-premise.html">study</a> to understand the comparative costs of a business moving to the cloud versus remaining with a traditional on-premise IT system. In this comparative cost model, McAfee finds that the typical small- to medium-business (SMB) will significantly reduce its IT costs by doing away with its on-premise technology and moving to the cloud. <br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="//2.bp.blogspot.com/-Cqe_GwUXmU4/UIrEQNtl5bI/AAAAAAAAArw/3VTIvrjNH2w/s1600/mcafee_cloud.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="291" src="//2.bp.blogspot.com/-Cqe_GwUXmU4/UIrEQNtl5bI/AAAAAAAAArw/3VTIvrjNH2w/s400/mcafee_cloud.png" width="400"></a></div><br>For example, a business with 16-100 computers can expect to save 37% by moving to the cloud – even if there’s no IT labor reduction. With savings achieved by moving to the cloud, these businesses are able to invest in areas that help expand or strengthen their business, whether it’s opening a new branch, starting a new product line, or hiring more people. <br><br>Bill Hipsher, Director of Business Development at <a href="http://www.usstoragesearch.com/">USstoragesearch.com</a> confirms, "Over a one-year period, Google Apps cost one-quarter of what we were spending on our on-premise IT before moving to the cloud – and over our business lifetime, it drops to just one-tenth of the cost. The hardware, software and time savings helped us expand our call center, which led to the creation of more than 30 new jobs this year." <br><br>In his study, McAfee also notes that SMBs' technology use is a strong indicator for the future of IT. Because SMBs are more flexible in their decision-making and aren't bogged down by legacy costs, they're able to choose an IT system that best suits their business. Thus, moving to the cloud frees up money for SMBs to drive business and job growth, and can set a precedent for how large businesses adopt cloud technology. <br><br>At Google, we’re proud to work with <a href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/search/label/small%20business">SMBs across the country</a> to help them save money and move to the cloud. Visit <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/landing/campaign/smb/#carousel=tiger-lily&utm_campaign=en&utm_source=en-redirect-na-smb&utm_medium=redirect&utm_term=smb">our website</a> to learn more about moving your business to Google Apps and <a href="https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjFVAaH_U6vidG9EdFNrN3FyYTFhMWJERG03MERuX2c#gid=32">explore McAfee’s comparative cost model</a> in Google Sheets to adjust and tailor the model to your business. </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/10/helping-smbs-save-money-with-cloud.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Helping SMBs save money with the cloud&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/10/helping-smbs-save-money-with-cloud.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/10/helping-smbs-save-money-with-cloud.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='1' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/10/helping-smbs-save-money-with-cloud.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/10/helping-smbs-save-money-with-cloud.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/10/helping-smbs-save-money-with-cloud.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/cloud%20computing' rel='tag'> cloud computing </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Apps' rel='tag'> Google Apps </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/small%20business' rel='tag'> small business </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='6556733830828965398' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/10/handsome-coffee-brews-its-way-to.html' itemprop='url' title='Handsome Coffee brews its way to success with Google Apps for Business'> Handsome Coffee brews its way to success with Google Apps for Business </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Monday, October 1, 2012 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Mike Hudson, Creative Director of Handsome Coffee Roasters</span> <br><br><i><b>Editors note:</b> To celebrate National Coffee Day, today’s guest blogger is Mike Hudson, Creative Director of <a href="http://www.handsomecoffee.com/">Handsome Coffee</a> Roasters, an artisan coffee company headquartered in Los Angeles, CA. See what <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/landing/campaign/smb/#carousel=philz&utm_campaign=en&utm_source=en-redirect-na-smb&utm_medium=redirect&utm_term=smb">another coffee company that has gone Google has to say</a>.</i><br><br>I have a passion for coffee – a passion so strong that, while working at a digital marketing agency, I spent my weekends working part-time as a barista at a legendary coffee shop in Los Angeles. It was there that a few co-workers and I sat down and hatched a plucky business plan: to roast our own coffee. In 2011, with little more than our gumption, a Twitter handle, a <a href="http://www.handsomecoffee.com/">webpage</a>, and 1956 Ford Falcon van that carried a mobile coffee cart we aptly named the Handsome Traveler, Handsome Coffee Roasters was born. <br><br>We took the Handsome Traveler to big events and festivals in Los Angeles, and began to cultivate a large and dedicated following along the way. And we grew with them: in just one year, our company went from the original founders to 18 full-time employees. We recently opened our flagship retail coffee bar in the Arts District of downtown Los Angeles, and have plans to expand to New York City next year. <br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="//2.bp.blogspot.com/-4HuNVjqRVTg/UGnBl-T7gxI/AAAAAAAAAow/9ghL2Hoe7v4/s1600/Handsome%2BCoffee.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="266" src="//2.bp.blogspot.com/-4HuNVjqRVTg/UGnBl-T7gxI/AAAAAAAAAow/9ghL2Hoe7v4/s400/Handsome%2BCoffee.jpeg" width="400"></a></div><br>Put simply, we couldn't have grown this quickly without Google Apps for Business. We’re small but global – we have a coffee bar in Los Angeles and a travel schedule that takes us to Nicaragua, Norway and everywhere in between, and Google Apps is a tool that caters to our on-the-move team. With Google Apps, we know we can share travel and employee schedules with Google Calendar, communicate across time zones with Google Chat, and access our permits, notes and updated sales figures from Google Drive. We can do everything on the go, from any device, whenever we need to. We even hold rigorous strategy sessions on Google+ Hangouts with various participants playing along on their mobiles. <br><br>Starting a business couldn’t be any easier with Google Apps. We can manage a Herculean amount of data, documents and communications without getting bogged down and wasting hours fiddling with antiquated technology. Thanks to Google's tools, we get to focus on what we really love: roasting and serving amazing coffee. </script> <noscript> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Mike Hudson, Creative Director of Handsome Coffee Roasters</span> <br><br><i><b>Editors note:</b> To celebrate National Coffee Day, today’s guest blogger is Mike Hudson, Creative Director of <a href="http://www.handsomecoffee.com/">Handsome Coffee</a> Roasters, an artisan coffee company headquartered in Los Angeles, CA. See what <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/landing/campaign/smb/#carousel=philz&utm_campaign=en&utm_source=en-redirect-na-smb&utm_medium=redirect&utm_term=smb">another coffee company that has gone Google has to say</a>.</i><br><br>I have a passion for coffee – a passion so strong that, while working at a digital marketing agency, I spent my weekends working part-time as a barista at a legendary coffee shop in Los Angeles. It was there that a few co-workers and I sat down and hatched a plucky business plan: to roast our own coffee. In 2011, with little more than our gumption, a Twitter handle, a <a href="http://www.handsomecoffee.com/">webpage</a>, and 1956 Ford Falcon van that carried a mobile coffee cart we aptly named the Handsome Traveler, Handsome Coffee Roasters was born. <br><br>We took the Handsome Traveler to big events and festivals in Los Angeles, and began to cultivate a large and dedicated following along the way. And we grew with them: in just one year, our company went from the original founders to 18 full-time employees. We recently opened our flagship retail coffee bar in the Arts District of downtown Los Angeles, and have plans to expand to New York City next year. <br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="//2.bp.blogspot.com/-4HuNVjqRVTg/UGnBl-T7gxI/AAAAAAAAAow/9ghL2Hoe7v4/s1600/Handsome%2BCoffee.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="266" src="//2.bp.blogspot.com/-4HuNVjqRVTg/UGnBl-T7gxI/AAAAAAAAAow/9ghL2Hoe7v4/s400/Handsome%2BCoffee.jpeg" width="400"></a></div><br>Put simply, we couldn't have grown this quickly without Google Apps for Business. We’re small but global – we have a coffee bar in Los Angeles and a travel schedule that takes us to Nicaragua, Norway and everywhere in between, and Google Apps is a tool that caters to our on-the-move team. With Google Apps, we know we can share travel and employee schedules with Google Calendar, communicate across time zones with Google Chat, and access our permits, notes and updated sales figures from Google Drive. We can do everything on the go, from any device, whenever we need to. We even hold rigorous strategy sessions on Google+ Hangouts with various participants playing along on their mobiles. <br><br>Starting a business couldn’t be any easier with Google Apps. We can manage a Herculean amount of data, documents and communications without getting bogged down and wasting hours fiddling with antiquated technology. Thanks to Google's tools, we get to focus on what we really love: roasting and serving amazing coffee. </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/10/handsome-coffee-brews-its-way-to.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Handsome Coffee brews its way to success with Google Apps for Business&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/10/handsome-coffee-brews-its-way-to.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/10/handsome-coffee-brews-its-way-to.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='1' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/10/handsome-coffee-brews-its-way-to.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/10/handsome-coffee-brews-its-way-to.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/10/handsome-coffee-brews-its-way-to.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/customer%20love' rel='tag'> customer love </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Apps' rel='tag'> Google Apps </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/small%20business' rel='tag'> small business </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/success%20story' rel='tag'> success story </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='2263167266837410191' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/09/perry-ellis-international-brings-their.html' itemprop='url' title='Perry Ellis International brings their global team together with Google Apps'> Perry Ellis International brings their global team together with Google Apps </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Thursday, September 20, 2012 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Ronen Lapidot, Senior Vice President of Information Technology, Perry Ellis International</span><br><br><i><b>Editors note:</b> Today’s guest blogger is Ronen Lapidot, Senior Vice President of Information Technology at Perry Ellis International, a designer, distributor and licensor of apparel and accessories for men and women. Perry Ellis International joins other retail organizations in going Google. <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/landing/campaign/retail/index.html#utm_campaign=BTS&utm_source=en-entblog-na-us-PerryEllis_92012&utm_medium=entblog&carousel=Spyder">See what they have to say</a>.</i><br><br>Far from a typical fashion house, our apparel spans a variety of categories including men’s and women’s clothing, accessories, children’s apparel, even evening gowns for the red carpet. In total, we manage a portfolio of some of the best known brands in fashion, including Perry Ellis®, Original Penguin®, Jantzen®, Laundry by Shelli Segal®, Nike® Swim, Callaway® and more. With 2,600 associates spanning across 65 store locations and 30 offices worldwide, we rely on technology to stay connected. <br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="//2.bp.blogspot.com/-DwBb08TQQdY/UFtzGpw6nPI/AAAAAAAAAmo/HNbwBDid278/s1600/Perry%2BEllis%2BFinal%2B%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="255" src="//2.bp.blogspot.com/-DwBb08TQQdY/UFtzGpw6nPI/AAAAAAAAAmo/HNbwBDid278/s400/Perry%2BEllis%2BFinal%2B%25281%2529.jpg" width="400"></a></div><br>The increasingly fast-paced global economy of the past several years has made it even more important to be able to work together efficiently, act quickly and share information across the company to help us all understand the state of the business and act as one global team. We were using a popular, premise based email solution, but with so many offices around the world, we knew the only way to keep our brand fresh and our business agile was to move to the cloud. <br><br>With the help of <a href="http://www.cloudsherpas.com/">Cloud Sherpas</a>, we moved the entire company to Google Apps. Now our global teams are able to connect through Gmail’s video chat feature to meet “face to face” about upcoming projects, designs and merchandise. With so many offices in different time zones, it’s great to be able to give our associates the option to work where they’re comfortable, even if it’s just going home to have dinner with their families before a jumping on a video chat with colleagues in China or Indonesia. This has been especially helpful for offices with eight or ten hour time differences between them and has made us feel more like one cohesive team instead of siloed offices. <br><br>Being able to work together easily across offices not only brings the team closer together, it also saves significant time and costs. We recently opened two international offices in Indonesia and Bangladesh. Usually I travel to each location for weeks at a time to interview and hire employees and oversee the regional office openings. With Google Apps, we were able to interview job candidates via video chat and work with regional managers on important policies and resources that needed to be in place for these new offices and associates. I was elated to discover that what normally takes significant travel time and costs could be done right from my desk. I sat there amazed as I watched documents fill in with information from my colleagues across the world. I think that’s when I realized we were all going to be able to do things very differently, now that we were in the cloud. </script> <noscript> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Ronen Lapidot, Senior Vice President of Information Technology, Perry Ellis International</span><br><br><i><b>Editors note:</b> Today’s guest blogger is Ronen Lapidot, Senior Vice President of Information Technology at Perry Ellis International, a designer, distributor and licensor of apparel and accessories for men and women. Perry Ellis International joins other retail organizations in going Google. <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/landing/campaign/retail/index.html#utm_campaign=BTS&utm_source=en-entblog-na-us-PerryEllis_92012&utm_medium=entblog&carousel=Spyder">See what they have to say</a>.</i><br><br>Far from a typical fashion house, our apparel spans a variety of categories including men’s and women’s clothing, accessories, children’s apparel, even evening gowns for the red carpet. In total, we manage a portfolio of some of the best known brands in fashion, including Perry Ellis®, Original Penguin®, Jantzen®, Laundry by Shelli Segal®, Nike® Swim, Callaway® and more. With 2,600 associates spanning across 65 store locations and 30 offices worldwide, we rely on technology to stay connected. <br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="//2.bp.blogspot.com/-DwBb08TQQdY/UFtzGpw6nPI/AAAAAAAAAmo/HNbwBDid278/s1600/Perry%2BEllis%2BFinal%2B%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="255" src="//2.bp.blogspot.com/-DwBb08TQQdY/UFtzGpw6nPI/AAAAAAAAAmo/HNbwBDid278/s400/Perry%2BEllis%2BFinal%2B%25281%2529.jpg" width="400"></a></div><br>The increasingly fast-paced global economy of the past several years has made it even more important to be able to work together efficiently, act quickly and share information across the company to help us all understand the state of the business and act as one global team. We were using a popular, premise based email solution, but with so many offices around the world, we knew the only way to keep our brand fresh and our business agile was to move to the cloud. <br><br>With the help of <a href="http://www.cloudsherpas.com/">Cloud Sherpas</a>, we moved the entire company to Google Apps. Now our global teams are able to connect through Gmail’s video chat feature to meet “face to face” about upcoming projects, designs and merchandise. With so many offices in different time zones, it’s great to be able to give our associates the option to work where they’re comfortable, even if it’s just going home to have dinner with their families before a jumping on a video chat with colleagues in China or Indonesia. This has been especially helpful for offices with eight or ten hour time differences between them and has made us feel more like one cohesive team instead of siloed offices. <br><br>Being able to work together easily across offices not only brings the team closer together, it also saves significant time and costs. We recently opened two international offices in Indonesia and Bangladesh. Usually I travel to each location for weeks at a time to interview and hire employees and oversee the regional office openings. With Google Apps, we were able to interview job candidates via video chat and work with regional managers on important policies and resources that needed to be in place for these new offices and associates. I was elated to discover that what normally takes significant travel time and costs could be done right from my desk. I sat there amazed as I watched documents fill in with information from my colleagues across the world. I think that’s when I realized we were all going to be able to do things very differently, now that we were in the cloud. </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/09/perry-ellis-international-brings-their.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Perry Ellis International brings their global team together with Google Apps&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/09/perry-ellis-international-brings-their.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/09/perry-ellis-international-brings-their.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='1' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/09/perry-ellis-international-brings-their.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/09/perry-ellis-international-brings-their.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/09/perry-ellis-international-brings-their.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/cloud%20computing' rel='tag'> cloud computing </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/customer%20love' rel='tag'> customer love </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Gone%20Google' rel='tag'> Gone Google </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/gonegoogle' rel='tag'> gonegoogle </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Apps' rel='tag'> Google Apps </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/small%20business' rel='tag'> small business </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/success%20story' rel='tag'> success story </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='938406950650680203' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/08/summer-camp-20-camping-moves-to-web.html' itemprop='url' title='Summer Camp 2.0 - camping moves to the web'> Summer Camp 2.0 - camping moves to the web </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Tuesday, August 28, 2012 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Anna Agishtein, Google Apps Team</span><br><br>Summer vacation is heading into the final stretch, but summer camps are still going strong. At the end of the summers that I spent as a camper, I always came home with new friendships and a renewed sense of confidence – not to mention a lifetime of memories. Here are three summer camps that use technology to make camp more accessible to more kids and create a memorable experience for their campers. <br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="//1.bp.blogspot.com/-OAntFCitMc0/UDv7fQ7ys0I/AAAAAAAAAg8/BNrhe87GE0c/s1600/Supercamp%2Blogo.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="76" src="//1.bp.blogspot.com/-OAntFCitMc0/UDv7fQ7ys0I/AAAAAAAAAg8/BNrhe87GE0c/s400/Supercamp%2Blogo.png" width="400"></a></div> <br>While outdoor adventures are fun, they’re not for everyone. <a href="http://www.supercamp.com/">SuperCamp</a> is a camp that's more focused on the classroom, with programs for middle and high school students to increase their grades, confidence and motivation. While living on some of the nation’s most known university campuses like Stanford, Brown and Wake Forest, campers can improve their test taking and studying techniques, practice their writing, develop their communication skills, and more. Starting in 2001, founder Bobbi DePorter wanted to reach more parents whose kids who would benefit from their summer programs, so she turned to her husband Joe, who found that Google AdWords could do just that. Since using AdWords, Joe and Bobbi have seen a 37% increase in camp enrollment, translating to an average return of $14 from every $1 spent on AdWords. By transitioning from traditional marketing techniques to web tools, Bobbi and Joe have grown SuperCamp into a comprehensive program that spans four continents. <br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="//4.bp.blogspot.com/-YGQwfn9UwAE/UDvnK3X3z1I/AAAAAAAAAgo/krSvREtf8pY/s1600/ideaventions%2Blogo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="95" src="//4.bp.blogspot.com/-YGQwfn9UwAE/UDvnK3X3z1I/AAAAAAAAAgo/krSvREtf8pY/s320/ideaventions%2Blogo.jpg" width="320"></a></div> <br>For younger kids interested in science and technology, there is a summer camp designed just for them. <a href="http://www.ideaventions.com/">Ideaventions</a> is a science and technology program in Virginia for kids ages three to thirteen. Husband and wife duo Ryan and Juliana Heitz founded the program in 2010 to encourage kids to pursue their passion for all-things science in a hands-on environment. As the couple personally invested in getting the camp up and running, they needed a cost-effective communications solution, which they found with Google Apps for Business. By choosing Google Apps, Ryan and Juliana save money on computer software, and they’re quickly and easily able to share lesson plans with employees through Google Docs. Managing everything in the cloud means that campers aren’t tied to a particular computer, so they can go back to their projects at any point in time. And parents like that they are able to login and engage with the content their kids are reading. Google Apps allows the Heitz’s to reallocate the time spent on back office work to working side-by-side with the kids. <br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="//2.bp.blogspot.com/-y7Bsn1iKQD4/UDvFZ2ltmnI/AAAAAAAAAgU/oka-8WEeMRM/s1600/062812_MakerCampVectorPoster_AK01%2Bcopy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="320" src="//2.bp.blogspot.com/-y7Bsn1iKQD4/UDvFZ2ltmnI/AAAAAAAAAgU/oka-8WEeMRM/s320/062812_MakerCampVectorPoster_AK01%2Bcopy.jpg" width="226"></a></div><br> <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/maker-camp-on-google-will-be-blast.html">MAKE magazine’s Maker Camp</a> brought summer camp to the web this summer with a free, virtual DIY camp for teens. This online “summer camp” on Google+ encouraged 13- to 18-year-olds (as well as their parents and teachers) to get creative with up to 30 different types of fun projects themed around creativity and “the art of making.” From junk art robots to potato cannons, Maker camp counselors posted projects on the <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/109780686446922422512/posts ">MAKE Google+ page</a> and hosted Hangouts On Air with campers to review the day’s project and chat about tips and tricks. On Field Trip Fridays, participants get behind the scenes access at locations like the research and innovation lab at <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/111717275116289870961/posts">+Ford</a> and <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/109600806421917664383/posts">+National Geographic</a>. It was a wonderful way to connect with fellow campers around the world and to get inspiration for new project ideas. <br><br>Google tools give these summer camps new ways to communicate, collaborate, grow and stay focused on what matters the most: the campers. See you around the campfire! </script> <noscript> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Anna Agishtein, Google Apps Team</span><br><br>Summer vacation is heading into the final stretch, but summer camps are still going strong. At the end of the summers that I spent as a camper, I always came home with new friendships and a renewed sense of confidence – not to mention a lifetime of memories. Here are three summer camps that use technology to make camp more accessible to more kids and create a memorable experience for their campers. <br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="//1.bp.blogspot.com/-OAntFCitMc0/UDv7fQ7ys0I/AAAAAAAAAg8/BNrhe87GE0c/s1600/Supercamp%2Blogo.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="76" src="//1.bp.blogspot.com/-OAntFCitMc0/UDv7fQ7ys0I/AAAAAAAAAg8/BNrhe87GE0c/s400/Supercamp%2Blogo.png" width="400"></a></div> <br>While outdoor adventures are fun, they’re not for everyone. <a href="http://www.supercamp.com/">SuperCamp</a> is a camp that's more focused on the classroom, with programs for middle and high school students to increase their grades, confidence and motivation. While living on some of the nation’s most known university campuses like Stanford, Brown and Wake Forest, campers can improve their test taking and studying techniques, practice their writing, develop their communication skills, and more. Starting in 2001, founder Bobbi DePorter wanted to reach more parents whose kids who would benefit from their summer programs, so she turned to her husband Joe, who found that Google AdWords could do just that. Since using AdWords, Joe and Bobbi have seen a 37% increase in camp enrollment, translating to an average return of $14 from every $1 spent on AdWords. By transitioning from traditional marketing techniques to web tools, Bobbi and Joe have grown SuperCamp into a comprehensive program that spans four continents. <br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="//4.bp.blogspot.com/-YGQwfn9UwAE/UDvnK3X3z1I/AAAAAAAAAgo/krSvREtf8pY/s1600/ideaventions%2Blogo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="95" src="//4.bp.blogspot.com/-YGQwfn9UwAE/UDvnK3X3z1I/AAAAAAAAAgo/krSvREtf8pY/s320/ideaventions%2Blogo.jpg" width="320"></a></div> <br>For younger kids interested in science and technology, there is a summer camp designed just for them. <a href="http://www.ideaventions.com/">Ideaventions</a> is a science and technology program in Virginia for kids ages three to thirteen. Husband and wife duo Ryan and Juliana Heitz founded the program in 2010 to encourage kids to pursue their passion for all-things science in a hands-on environment. As the couple personally invested in getting the camp up and running, they needed a cost-effective communications solution, which they found with Google Apps for Business. By choosing Google Apps, Ryan and Juliana save money on computer software, and they’re quickly and easily able to share lesson plans with employees through Google Docs. Managing everything in the cloud means that campers aren’t tied to a particular computer, so they can go back to their projects at any point in time. And parents like that they are able to login and engage with the content their kids are reading. Google Apps allows the Heitz’s to reallocate the time spent on back office work to working side-by-side with the kids. <br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="//2.bp.blogspot.com/-y7Bsn1iKQD4/UDvFZ2ltmnI/AAAAAAAAAgU/oka-8WEeMRM/s1600/062812_MakerCampVectorPoster_AK01%2Bcopy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="320" src="//2.bp.blogspot.com/-y7Bsn1iKQD4/UDvFZ2ltmnI/AAAAAAAAAgU/oka-8WEeMRM/s320/062812_MakerCampVectorPoster_AK01%2Bcopy.jpg" width="226"></a></div><br> <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/maker-camp-on-google-will-be-blast.html">MAKE magazine’s Maker Camp</a> brought summer camp to the web this summer with a free, virtual DIY camp for teens. This online “summer camp” on Google+ encouraged 13- to 18-year-olds (as well as their parents and teachers) to get creative with up to 30 different types of fun projects themed around creativity and “the art of making.” From junk art robots to potato cannons, Maker camp counselors posted projects on the <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/109780686446922422512/posts ">MAKE Google+ page</a> and hosted Hangouts On Air with campers to review the day’s project and chat about tips and tricks. On Field Trip Fridays, participants get behind the scenes access at locations like the research and innovation lab at <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/111717275116289870961/posts">+Ford</a> and <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/109600806421917664383/posts">+National Geographic</a>. It was a wonderful way to connect with fellow campers around the world and to get inspiration for new project ideas. <br><br>Google tools give these summer camps new ways to communicate, collaborate, grow and stay focused on what matters the most: the campers. See you around the campfire! </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/08/summer-camp-20-camping-moves-to-web.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Summer Camp 2.0 - camping moves to the web&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/08/summer-camp-20-camping-moves-to-web.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/08/summer-camp-20-camping-moves-to-web.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='0' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/08/summer-camp-20-camping-moves-to-web.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/08/summer-camp-20-camping-moves-to-web.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/08/summer-camp-20-camping-moves-to-web.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/customer%20love' rel='tag'> customer love </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Gone%20Google' rel='tag'> Gone Google </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/gonegoogle' rel='tag'> gonegoogle </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Apps' rel='tag'> Google Apps </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/google%2B' rel='tag'> google+ </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/small%20business' rel='tag'> small business </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='5239716782327600104' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/07/google-earth-pro-helps-rockware.html' itemprop='url' title='Google Earth Pro helps Rockware geologists uncover the layers of the Earth'> Google Earth Pro helps Rockware geologists uncover the layers of the Earth </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Tuesday, July 17, 2012 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Jim Reed, geologist and R&D director, RockWare Inc.</span><br><br><i><b>Editors note:</b> RockWare is a geological software company based in Golden, Colorado. Founded in 1983, RockWare develops a suite of earth science and mapping applications used across several industries and fields, including civil, environmental and geotechnical engineering. </i><br><br> As the early morning sun rises, we head into the Rocky Mountains’ Front Range to take some field measurements. The scenery is breathtaking: rusty-hued sandstone formations tilting at dramatic angles from the ground below. Studying the Earth’s natural history and uncovering the mysteries that lie beneath its surface is just another day as a RockWare geologist. <br><br> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="//2.bp.blogspot.com/-cNDO6loL54U/UAWPh4Mr2EI/AAAAAAAAELw/HUhfQdZvWGE/s1600/ColoFilming_004.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="260" src="//2.bp.blogspot.com/-cNDO6loL54U/UAWPh4Mr2EI/AAAAAAAAELw/HUhfQdZvWGE/s320/ColoFilming_004.jpeg" width="480"></a></div> <br><br>Using a GPS device and a few specialty tools, we move around the site and record the tilt of the rock formations. These data points don’t make much sense to the untrained eye. However, by plotting our data on a map, we can gain an intuitive three-dimensional understanding of the rocks and their orientation.<br><br> When we return to the office, we quickly import the data we recorded in the field into <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/earthmaps/earthpro.html?utm_source=enterprise&utm_medium=blog%2Bpost&utm_campaign=rockware%2Bblog%2Bpost">Google Earth Pro</a>. The software produces interactive 3D visuals, which we can easily share with customers. At RockWare, we make extensive use of the <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/earthmaps/earthpro-features.html?utm_source=enterprise&utm_medium=blog%2Bpost&utm_campaign=rockware%2Bblog%2Bpost">Movie Maker</a> feature, which allows us to animate complex events over time. For example, if a toxic spill is leaking into the water table, we can model the spread and speed of contamination. These animations help our clients understand the impact of these geological events and act accordingly.<br><br> We’ve seen a positive impact on sales and marketing, too. Google Earth Pro, in conjunction with RockWare’s software, gives us the tools to tell a client’s story through video, rather than just creating static maps and reports. With more dynamic ways to showcase our work, we’ve been able to advertise in a way we’ve never been able to do before. As a result, we’ve seen growth in our customer base via referrals and word-of-mouth. <br><br> Many of our customers already use Google Earth Pro in the office, which streamlines my job as a consultant. Instead of spending extensive time on product training, we can dive right into the project. Google has essentially created an environment where it's easy for RockWare and our clients to collaborate on geological projects, which simplifies the decision-making process. <br><br> Google Earth Pro brings our projects to life. It has not only contributed to RockWare’s business growth, it’s also reinforced my love for geology. Going out in the field, taking measurements, and actually being able see what I’m mapping makes my job that much more incredible. <br><br> <iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/YD5Tr4PQOWk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> </script> <noscript> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Jim Reed, geologist and R&D director, RockWare Inc.</span><br><br><i><b>Editors note:</b> RockWare is a geological software company based in Golden, Colorado. Founded in 1983, RockWare develops a suite of earth science and mapping applications used across several industries and fields, including civil, environmental and geotechnical engineering. </i><br><br> As the early morning sun rises, we head into the Rocky Mountains’ Front Range to take some field measurements. The scenery is breathtaking: rusty-hued sandstone formations tilting at dramatic angles from the ground below. Studying the Earth’s natural history and uncovering the mysteries that lie beneath its surface is just another day as a RockWare geologist. <br><br> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="//2.bp.blogspot.com/-cNDO6loL54U/UAWPh4Mr2EI/AAAAAAAAELw/HUhfQdZvWGE/s1600/ColoFilming_004.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="260" src="//2.bp.blogspot.com/-cNDO6loL54U/UAWPh4Mr2EI/AAAAAAAAELw/HUhfQdZvWGE/s320/ColoFilming_004.jpeg" width="480"></a></div> <br><br>Using a GPS device and a few specialty tools, we move around the site and record the tilt of the rock formations. These data points don’t make much sense to the untrained eye. However, by plotting our data on a map, we can gain an intuitive three-dimensional understanding of the rocks and their orientation.<br><br> When we return to the office, we quickly import the data we recorded in the field into <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/earthmaps/earthpro.html?utm_source=enterprise&utm_medium=blog%2Bpost&utm_campaign=rockware%2Bblog%2Bpost">Google Earth Pro</a>. The software produces interactive 3D visuals, which we can easily share with customers. At RockWare, we make extensive use of the <a href="//www.google.com/enterprise/earthmaps/earthpro-features.html?utm_source=enterprise&utm_medium=blog%2Bpost&utm_campaign=rockware%2Bblog%2Bpost">Movie Maker</a> feature, which allows us to animate complex events over time. For example, if a toxic spill is leaking into the water table, we can model the spread and speed of contamination. These animations help our clients understand the impact of these geological events and act accordingly.<br><br> We’ve seen a positive impact on sales and marketing, too. Google Earth Pro, in conjunction with RockWare’s software, gives us the tools to tell a client’s story through video, rather than just creating static maps and reports. With more dynamic ways to showcase our work, we’ve been able to advertise in a way we’ve never been able to do before. As a result, we’ve seen growth in our customer base via referrals and word-of-mouth. <br><br> Many of our customers already use Google Earth Pro in the office, which streamlines my job as a consultant. Instead of spending extensive time on product training, we can dive right into the project. Google has essentially created an environment where it's easy for RockWare and our clients to collaborate on geological projects, which simplifies the decision-making process. <br><br> Google Earth Pro brings our projects to life. It has not only contributed to RockWare’s business growth, it’s also reinforced my love for geology. Going out in the field, taking measurements, and actually being able see what I’m mapping makes my job that much more incredible. <br><br> <iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/YD5Tr4PQOWk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/07/google-earth-pro-helps-rockware.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Google Earth Pro helps Rockware geologists uncover the layers of the Earth&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/07/google-earth-pro-helps-rockware.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/07/google-earth-pro-helps-rockware.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='4' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/07/google-earth-pro-helps-rockware.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/07/google-earth-pro-helps-rockware.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/07/google-earth-pro-helps-rockware.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/customer%20love' rel='tag'> customer love </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/earth%20and%20maps' rel='tag'> earth and maps </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Earth%20Pro' rel='tag'> Google Earth Pro </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/guest%20post' rel='tag'> guest post </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/small%20business' rel='tag'> small business </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/success%20story' rel='tag'> success story </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='75641192566333125' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/06/school-of-rock-tops-charts-with-google.html' itemprop='url' title='School of Rock tops the charts with Google Apps for Business and Chromebooks'> School of Rock tops the charts with Google Apps for Business and Chromebooks </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Wednesday, June 20, 2012 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Evan Trent, Vice President of Digital Strategy and Technology, School of Rock</span><br><br><i><b>Editors note:</b> Today’s guest blogger is Evan Trent, Vice President of Digital Strategy and Technology at School of Rock, a national music program headquartered in Burr Ridge, Illinois. <a href="//www.google.com/apps/intl/en/landing/choosegoogle/index.html#utm_medium=blog&utm_source=en-na-us-entblog-SchoolofRock06202012&utm_campaign=en_us">See what other organizations that have gone Google have to say</a>.</i><br><br><a href="//2.bp.blogspot.com/-unuIBUlUNG4/T-IK1oRj8zI/AAAAAAAAAUs/Ju0GOroWtyQ/s1600/School%2Bof%2BRock%2B4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="267" src="//2.bp.blogspot.com/-unuIBUlUNG4/T-IK1oRj8zI/AAAAAAAAAUs/Ju0GOroWtyQ/s400/School%2Bof%2BRock%2B4.jpg" width="400"></a><br><br>For more than a decade, School of Rock has been inspiring kids to rock on stage and in life. We offer music lessons on guitar, bass, piano, vocals and drums in a performance-based environment at over 90 company-owned and franchised schools in the U.S. and Mexico. Our goal is to inspire our students to learn, motivate them to excel, and, as a result, help them to gain confidence. <br><br>We’ve been growing rapidly in recent years, primarily been through franchising. We ran Microsoft® Exchange for years, but as the number of franchise schools continued to grow, we found it more and more difficult to offer a simple start-up process and manage and deliver remote support. We needed to move to a web-based solution that didn’t require multiple installations, software updates, and desktop support. After researching a few different options, we found Google Apps for Business had the tools we needed to rock on. We also found that many of our franchisees were already big fans of Google products and were using them outside of School of Rock. <br><br><a href="//1.bp.blogspot.com/-UvuMwLYzKj4/T-ILZcz_nYI/AAAAAAAAAVE/J5xkcrnEOgA/s1600/School%2Bof%2BRock%2B3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:right; float:right; margin-left:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="214" src="//1.bp.blogspot.com/-UvuMwLYzKj4/T-ILZcz_nYI/AAAAAAAAAVE/J5xkcrnEOgA/s320/School%2Bof%2BRock%2B3.jpg" width="320"></a> We began the transition to Google Apps in January 2012 through our implementation partner, <a href="http://www.cloudsherpas.com/">Cloud Sherpas</a>. The migration was straightforward, and Cloud Sherpas offered training sessions for our employees and franchise partners to ensure a seamless transition. Google Apps completely transformed how we work with our franchisees and how each location works together as a team. Sharing information with students, faculty and parents has become much easier with Google Docs and Google Groups. We also find Google’s mobile-friendly approach in tune with our younger and more mobile employees. <br><br>Since we struck an amazing chord with Google Apps, we also decided to rethink our PC-based culture. We no longer wanted to deal with the administrative overhead and the security and reliability issues that came with traditional PCs. So in March, we deployed Google <a href="//www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/devices/#utm_campaign=newchromedevices&utm_source=en-na-us-entblog-chromedevices&utm_medium=blog">Chromebooks</a> to about one quarter of our locations, and we’ve been rolling them out to increasingly more schools. We use them for just about everything, from accounting to video conferencing to putting on shows. The Chromebooks are extremely fast, require zero support, are easy to manage across multiple remote locations, and they cost only a few hundred dollars each. They’ve also been incredibly helpful for those of us who travel often since the battery life often lasts much longer than our previous PCs and they have built-in 3G access. <br><br>Google Apps for Business and Chromebooks have greatly reduced the time, money and energy our franchisees need to invest in technology, and that’s music to our ears. </script> <noscript> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Evan Trent, Vice President of Digital Strategy and Technology, School of Rock</span><br><br><i><b>Editors note:</b> Today’s guest blogger is Evan Trent, Vice President of Digital Strategy and Technology at School of Rock, a national music program headquartered in Burr Ridge, Illinois. <a href="//www.google.com/apps/intl/en/landing/choosegoogle/index.html#utm_medium=blog&utm_source=en-na-us-entblog-SchoolofRock06202012&utm_campaign=en_us">See what other organizations that have gone Google have to say</a>.</i><br><br><a href="//2.bp.blogspot.com/-unuIBUlUNG4/T-IK1oRj8zI/AAAAAAAAAUs/Ju0GOroWtyQ/s1600/School%2Bof%2BRock%2B4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="267" src="//2.bp.blogspot.com/-unuIBUlUNG4/T-IK1oRj8zI/AAAAAAAAAUs/Ju0GOroWtyQ/s400/School%2Bof%2BRock%2B4.jpg" width="400"></a><br><br>For more than a decade, School of Rock has been inspiring kids to rock on stage and in life. We offer music lessons on guitar, bass, piano, vocals and drums in a performance-based environment at over 90 company-owned and franchised schools in the U.S. and Mexico. Our goal is to inspire our students to learn, motivate them to excel, and, as a result, help them to gain confidence. <br><br>We’ve been growing rapidly in recent years, primarily been through franchising. We ran Microsoft® Exchange for years, but as the number of franchise schools continued to grow, we found it more and more difficult to offer a simple start-up process and manage and deliver remote support. We needed to move to a web-based solution that didn’t require multiple installations, software updates, and desktop support. After researching a few different options, we found Google Apps for Business had the tools we needed to rock on. We also found that many of our franchisees were already big fans of Google products and were using them outside of School of Rock. <br><br><a href="//1.bp.blogspot.com/-UvuMwLYzKj4/T-ILZcz_nYI/AAAAAAAAAVE/J5xkcrnEOgA/s1600/School%2Bof%2BRock%2B3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:right; float:right; margin-left:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="214" src="//1.bp.blogspot.com/-UvuMwLYzKj4/T-ILZcz_nYI/AAAAAAAAAVE/J5xkcrnEOgA/s320/School%2Bof%2BRock%2B3.jpg" width="320"></a> We began the transition to Google Apps in January 2012 through our implementation partner, <a href="http://www.cloudsherpas.com/">Cloud Sherpas</a>. The migration was straightforward, and Cloud Sherpas offered training sessions for our employees and franchise partners to ensure a seamless transition. Google Apps completely transformed how we work with our franchisees and how each location works together as a team. Sharing information with students, faculty and parents has become much easier with Google Docs and Google Groups. We also find Google’s mobile-friendly approach in tune with our younger and more mobile employees. <br><br>Since we struck an amazing chord with Google Apps, we also decided to rethink our PC-based culture. We no longer wanted to deal with the administrative overhead and the security and reliability issues that came with traditional PCs. So in March, we deployed Google <a href="//www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/devices/#utm_campaign=newchromedevices&utm_source=en-na-us-entblog-chromedevices&utm_medium=blog">Chromebooks</a> to about one quarter of our locations, and we’ve been rolling them out to increasingly more schools. We use them for just about everything, from accounting to video conferencing to putting on shows. The Chromebooks are extremely fast, require zero support, are easy to manage across multiple remote locations, and they cost only a few hundred dollars each. They’ve also been incredibly helpful for those of us who travel often since the battery life often lasts much longer than our previous PCs and they have built-in 3G access. <br><br>Google Apps for Business and Chromebooks have greatly reduced the time, money and energy our franchisees need to invest in technology, and that’s music to our ears. </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/06/school-of-rock-tops-charts-with-google.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:School of Rock tops the charts with Google Apps for Business and Chromebooks&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/06/school-of-rock-tops-charts-with-google.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/06/school-of-rock-tops-charts-with-google.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> <div class='comment-container'> <i class='comment-img material-icons'>  </i> <span class='cmt_count_iframe_holder' data-count='38' data-onclick='' data-post-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/06/school-of-rock-tops-charts-with-google.html' data-url='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/06/school-of-rock-tops-charts-with-google.html' style='color: #4184F3;'></span> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='cmt_iframe_holder' data-href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/06/school-of-rock-tops-charts-with-google.html' data-viewtype='FILTERED_POSTMOD'></div> <a href='https://plus.google.com/112374322230920073195' rel='author' style='display:none;'> Google </a> <div class='label-footer'> <span class='labels-caption'> Labels: </span> <span class='labels'> <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/customer%20love' rel='tag'> customer love </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/Google%20Apps' rel='tag'> Google Apps </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/partner' rel='tag'> partner </a> , <a class='label' href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/search/label/small%20business' rel='tag'> small business </a> </span> </div> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='2489093829899871821' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/06/winemakers-sip-their-way-to-success.html' itemprop='url' title='Winemakers sip their way to success with Google Apps for Business'> Winemakers sip their way to success with Google Apps for Business </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> Tuesday, June 12, 2012 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Ella Kim, Google Enterprise team</span> <br><br>From growing the fruit and sending it off to the crushpad to bottling that first blend, winemakers are working from sunrise to sunset. When you see how much work goes into creating the perfect bottle, it’s apparent that a strong passion for wine is the driving force behind each company’s success. Here’s how three Californians with a love for wine turned to Google Apps for Business to help them start their own wine labels. <br><br><a href="//4.bp.blogspot.com/-q1U3SKQ5wsU/T9ZroGi7J0I/AAAAAAAAATo/yEnnWbymZts/s1600/Banshee_Wines_MyersPhoto_017T_450x600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="200" src="//4.bp.blogspot.com/-q1U3SKQ5wsU/T9ZroGi7J0I/AAAAAAAAATo/yEnnWbymZts/s200/Banshee_Wines_MyersPhoto_017T_450x600.jpg" width="150"></a> When longtime friends Noah Dorrance, Baron Ziegler and Steve Graf started Banshee Wines, all three still had day jobs. While they wanted to fulfill their dreams of opening a winery, they worked and lived in different areas of Northern California, and it was tough to get started. Without a physical office to work from, they turned to Google Apps for Business to create a virtual one. Today, they’re able to keep track of sales information, manage employees who are spread out across the country, and be accessible at any time on their mobile devices. Google Apps continues to provide them with a platform that helps them stay connected and work together. <br><br> <a href="//2.bp.blogspot.com/-FIZEZoO480E/T9ZrstIXQEI/AAAAAAAAAT0/aQKkcOtCVTY/s1600/Cairdean%2BWinery.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear:right; float:right; margin-left:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="150" src="//2.bp.blogspot.com/-FIZEZoO480E/T9ZrstIXQEI/AAAAAAAAAT0/aQKkcOtCVTY/s200/Cairdean%2BWinery.JPG" width="200"></a> Like the founders of Banshee Wines, Stacia Williams had another career for years, but was never able to ignore her passion for wine. In 2010, she started Cairdean Winery with her husband, Edwin Williams. They both knew starting a winery would be far from the typical desk job, and they needed the technology to keep them connected while they were constantly on the go. The mobility of Google Apps for Business was particularly beneficial for the duo who purchased a vineyard in one location but are building a new facility in another. They can send email, see calendars, and share documents whether they are checking on their grapes in the field or working on their new winery and tasting room in St. Helena, California. No matter where they are during the day, Google Apps helps keep their business running smoothly. <br><br><a href="//3.bp.blogspot.com/-2uqEbDpYY6g/T9eHfLjpr0I/AAAAAAAAAUE/d6wE3bK0XOo/s1600/Pithy%2BLittle%2BWine%2BCompany.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="200" src="//3.bp.blogspot.com/-2uqEbDpYY6g/T9eHfLjpr0I/AAAAAAAAAUE/d6wE3bK0XOo/s200/Pithy%2BLittle%2BWine%2BCompany.jpeg" width="111"></a> Husband and wife team Jeff Munsey and Felicia Alvarez established Pithy Little Wine Company in 2009. Their vision is as simple as their name: create good wine with no frills. The pair needed technology that matched their philosophy, and Google Apps provided just that. By choosing Google Apps for Business, the founders have a platform that allows them to stay organized, work together, and communicate with their customers – all in a cost-effective way. From using Gmail to communicate with customers, to using Google Forms to give managers better visibility in the workplace, Google Apps helps manage project workflow seamlessly. With Google Apps, they’ve been able to turn their dream of owning a winery into a reality. <br><br>What these three companies have in common are founders who share an intense passion for what they do. With a lot of hard work, they’ve brought their wineries to life, and we’re happy Google Apps made things a little bit easier. </script> <noscript> <span class="byline-author">Posted by Ella Kim, Google Enterprise team</span> <br><br>From growing the fruit and sending it off to the crushpad to bottling that first blend, winemakers are working from sunrise to sunset. When you see how much work goes into creating the perfect bottle, it’s apparent that a strong passion for wine is the driving force behind each company’s success. Here’s how three Californians with a love for wine turned to Google Apps for Business to help them start their own wine labels. <br><br><a href="//4.bp.blogspot.com/-q1U3SKQ5wsU/T9ZroGi7J0I/AAAAAAAAATo/yEnnWbymZts/s1600/Banshee_Wines_MyersPhoto_017T_450x600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="200" src="//4.bp.blogspot.com/-q1U3SKQ5wsU/T9ZroGi7J0I/AAAAAAAAATo/yEnnWbymZts/s200/Banshee_Wines_MyersPhoto_017T_450x600.jpg" width="150"></a> When longtime friends Noah Dorrance, Baron Ziegler and Steve Graf started Banshee Wines, all three still had day jobs. While they wanted to fulfill their dreams of opening a winery, they worked and lived in different areas of Northern California, and it was tough to get started. Without a physical office to work from, they turned to Google Apps for Business to create a virtual one. Today, they’re able to keep track of sales information, manage employees who are spread out across the country, and be accessible at any time on their mobile devices. Google Apps continues to provide them with a platform that helps them stay connected and work together. <br><br> <a href="//2.bp.blogspot.com/-FIZEZoO480E/T9ZrstIXQEI/AAAAAAAAAT0/aQKkcOtCVTY/s1600/Cairdean%2BWinery.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear:right; float:right; margin-left:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="150" src="//2.bp.blogspot.com/-FIZEZoO480E/T9ZrstIXQEI/AAAAAAAAAT0/aQKkcOtCVTY/s200/Cairdean%2BWinery.JPG" width="200"></a> Like the founders of Banshee Wines, Stacia Williams had another career for years, but was never able to ignore her passion for wine. In 2010, she started Cairdean Winery with her husband, Edwin Williams. They both knew starting a winery would be far from the typical desk job, and they needed the technology to keep them connected while they were constantly on the go. The mobility of Google Apps for Business was particularly beneficial for the duo who purchased a vineyard in one location but are building a new facility in another. They can send email, see calendars, and share documents whether they are checking on their grapes in the field or working on their new winery and tasting room in St. Helena, California. No matter where they are during the day, Google Apps helps keep their business running smoothly. <br><br><a href="//3.bp.blogspot.com/-2uqEbDpYY6g/T9eHfLjpr0I/AAAAAAAAAUE/d6wE3bK0XOo/s1600/Pithy%2BLittle%2BWine%2BCompany.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="200" src="//3.bp.blogspot.com/-2uqEbDpYY6g/T9eHfLjpr0I/AAAAAAAAAUE/d6wE3bK0XOo/s200/Pithy%2BLittle%2BWine%2BCompany.jpeg" width="111"></a> Husband and wife team Jeff Munsey and Felicia Alvarez established Pithy Little Wine Company in 2009. Their vision is as simple as their name: create good wine with no frills. The pair needed technology that matched their philosophy, and Google Apps provided just that. By choosing Google Apps for Business, the founders have a platform that allows them to stay organized, work together, and communicate with their customers – all in a cost-effective way. From using Gmail to communicate with customers, to using Google Forms to give managers better visibility in the workplace, Google Apps helps manage project workflow seamlessly. With Google Apps, they’ve been able to turn their dream of owning a winery into a reality. <br><br>What these three companies have in common are founders who share an intense passion for what they do. With a lot of hard work, they’ve brought their wineries to life, and we’re happy Google Apps made things a little bit easier. </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='gplus-share social-wrapper' data-href='https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/06/winemakers-sip-their-way-to-success.html'> <img alt='Share on Google+' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/branding/google_plus/2x/ic_w_post_gplus_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Google Cloud Blog:Winemakers sip their way to success with Google Apps for Business&url=https://cloud.googleblog.com/2012/06/winemakers-sip-their-way-to-success.html&via=gsuite'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' 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