New web clipboard for Google Docs that improves copy and paste

This new clipboard temporarily stores items you’ve copied in the cloud, then allows you to paste them with proper formatting into documents, spreadsheets and presentations.

Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner Editions

Languages included:
All languages supported by Google Docs

How to access what's new:
While editing in Google Docs, select the item that you want to copy. Use the new clipboard menu to copy the item in question. Then, go to your other document, spreadsheet or presentation, and use the clipboard menu there to paste the item into the document.

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Go beyond status messages.

It's really hard to get one step ahead in Technology, Google just introduce Google Buzz to socialize through your Gmail email service. I have no idea if the Google Buzz will be added as optional service in Google Apps Premier Edition. I will find out soon.

The Google Buzz is part of your Gmail inbox integration, so it's easy to publish ideas for your friends in "private" or share to the world in "public". You can share anything you want, your current location through your mobile device iPhone or Android phones, and other interesting stuff. To know more, continue watching the video posted below.

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Lincoln Property Company now in Google Apps

Lincoln Property is the fifth largest property manager in the United States. When I joined the company, 950 of our 3,500 employees were using Novell Groupwise for email. We were maintaining an expensive infrastructure including servers, a SAN and data center space. It was difficult to maintain our email archive. It was also tough to find IT staff skilled in Groupwise. At the same time, we were looking to outsource as many of our mission-critical applications as possible.

Evaluating our options, we first considered remaining with Groupwise or switching to Microsoft Exchange. At the prodding of one of our tech-savvy partners, we tried out Google Apps and liked what we found. We did a comprehensive TCO analysis that included licensing and maintenance, data center costs, spam protection, server, SAN, migration costs, you name it.

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