Google Sites To Be Merged with Google Groups + 9 Other Learnings
10 things I learned from attending the "Google in the Public Sector" session a while ago:
- Google Sites and Google Groups are set to merge - yaay!
- Google's "secret sauce" involves the number of data centres it has (700-800+)
- Google positions its advertising service as another way to connect your content with your audience
- Google Earth in a browser is a major aim of Google (ie, Google Earth merging with Google Maps). I think this might be one of those things Google has to wait for web technology to catch-up on
- Google Earth is being used (a lot) inside organisations
- There is a LOT of interest in Google's offerings
- NZ Governments issue of having to store content within NZ geographical boundary is being tackled by Google as a cost/risk exercise
- Google plays at the national level
- Most people still think Google is just a search page!?
- People use Google Apps/Docs because it is soooooooo easy
Interesting post, my comments...
ReplyDelete1. I can't see why Sites and Groups would merge - they cater for different things. Any more details on this?
2. Wow!
3. That's a nice way of looking at it.
4. There's a plugin you can install to enable this already, but I guess they are aiming for something without an additional plugin.
5. I've seen it used in a lot of government departments.
6. True dat.
7. So does that mean Google are weighing up the options of setting up a datacenter in NZ? Hope so.
8. What does 'national level' mean?
9. That's true, Gmail must be their second most well known service.
10. Yes - very easy apart from the initial DNS setup, although I believe if you register the domain through Google it's even easier.
Good post!
Top comments Stuart.
ReplyDelete1: No more info but I can see exactly how it would all fit.
2: They "neither confirm nor deny" any number of data centres - these were two numbers used
7: Nope. Definitely not (in my view). They look to make it so cheap to have it in the cloud that any organisation/government would think twice about sticking with their "have it inside our borders" argument.
8: National banks, national governments, national organisations - they are focussed on BIG things. Means NZ govt agencies are competing with Asia/Pacific governments for Google attention.