Recently, the Google Docs team started working with Viewpath, a company dedicated to providing project management solutions. In keeping with this commitment, they recently added a Gantt chart gadget to the spreadsheets platform. Here on the Docs team, …
A quick note to point you, yet again, to an exceptional use case described in the Teaching With Technology blog. In a recent post, Mr. Kirkpatrick goes through the steps of setting up parent:teacher meetings easily using Docs. Take ins…
Don Campbell is President of Expand2Web, and dedicates his career to helping small business owners with local store-fronts connect with customers over the web. Here, he proves his tech-savvy creativity by showing us a very fun, and seasonally-appropria…
Posted by: Amit Agarwal, a professional technology blogger at Digital Inspiration and an exceptionally creative Docs userWe were first introduced to Amit Agarwal when he sent us a video, detailing how to use Docs as an RSS feed reader (check out the ac…
Posted by: Meredith Whittaker, Program ManagerReviewing and revisingMy colleague, and one of Docs’ marketing managers, Andrew Chang, emailed me the other day, thrilled to have discovered an incredibly incisive post covering a number of ways to leave fe…
Posted by: Garnet GrattonGarnet Gratton is back, and in the mood for summer. In her last post, she detailed a creative lesson plan using Docs and Mars Phoenix Lander in the news. This time, she’ll be telling us about her experience using Docs forms to …
Posted by: Meredith Whittaker, Program ManagerThe situation: My good friend Tomashi is visiting New York, and I want to map out a few places for her to visit near my work before we meet for the evening. What do I do? I use the spreadsheets map gadge…
Posted by: Michelle Lee and Dave Young, User experience designersWith all of the meeting notes, design documents, bug lists, presentations, and other files we share with our teams at Google, we create up to a dozen new documents a day. Of course, this …
Posted by: Regina Dinneen, Docs User Operations (aka Google Docs Guide 2)I recently took the plunge and bought an Eee PC to bring with me on my volunteer mission (see the Craigslist / Forms post). If there’s Internet on the island and in the schools, I…
Posted by: Meredith Whittaker, Program Manager Recently, we were introduced to Lynette Chandler through her wonderful video detailing how to create spreadsheets forms. Well, Lynette and her Docs expertise are back. This time, she’s put toge…
Posted by: Regina Dinneen, Google Docs User Operations (aka Google Docs Guide 2)In mid-July I’m headed off to volunteer with a non-profit, stationed in the South Pacific. As a result, I’m currently scrambling to tie up loose ends and organize the logis…
Posted by: Garnet GrattonFollowing her last post describing her use of forms in the classroom, Garnet Gratton is back, this time with a simple, creative lesson-plan for you teachers, involving current events, Mars and Docs’ forms, among other things.It…
Posted by: Meredith Whittaker, Program ManagerRecently, we added a notifications feature for spreadsheets, which gives you the the ability to be notified, via email, when changes are made to your spreadsheet. Docs user Bob Yang picked up on this new fe…
Posted by: Aliza Sherman, author, speaker, TV and radio producerIn the last installment of her Google Docs chronicles, Aliza Sherman shows us how how Google Docs can be useful beyond the workplace. Last time I discussed how I use Google Docs for quick …
Posted by: Paul G MattiuzziPaul G Mattiuzzi is a writer, psychologist and member of a Google Docs using family. He currently writes, works and maintains a psychology resource website in California.As the Career Development Director for the Engineering …