Google Noticeboard is Firefox extension developed by Google India, that allow information sharing between members on communities that not really technology literate. Noticeboard usually meant for publicly accessible platform, where beside sharing information, members can posting message with text message or record voice and send it to any members. Any messages sent are viewable to all members from within Google Noticeboard, as well.
Google Noticeboard use Gmail accounts as an authorization. All emails and contacts stored in Gmail will be accessible from Google Noticeboard. One thing to note is, emails are not readable here as it was turned to HTML format, but anyhone can reply the email with text of voice. Read more about how the installations and user guide here. There is also an option to send text or voice via mobile phone, but I’ve no luck in my attempt testing it.
Google Noticeboard itself is simple application, where the only setup available is to key in your Gmail account, and set the refresh interval period. There is no setup to add new contact, hence the only place to add it, is from Gmail.
As it simple, this is not meant for technology savvy communities who can relied on different kind of communication or discussion platform such as groups, forum or even instant messeger and social media such as Facebook or MySpace.
Email receipients received the email together with the recording in .ogg format
Another small enhancement on Google Appsintroduced today. As admin, you can now set how user name format will be displayed on Gmail. Choose option that best reflects your organization
If you tick on the ‘ ‘, users can override this setup from their Google Apps dashboard. This feature open for all Google Apps version
How to access this feature:
From Google Apps dashboard, go to ‘Email’ under the ‘Service settings’. The ‘Name format’ options are available in the ‘General’ tab.
In Microsoft Outlook, there is recall feature to recall emails that you sent unintentionally, or contain mistake that you only notice afterward.
Undo Send, the new Gmail lab feature, trying to handle this incident, on slightly different way. Every time you send an email, an ‘Undo’ link will appear on top of the sent email, for 5 seconds before it is disappear. It is said 5 minutes is enough to notice and catch that email, although I feel this is only suite for short emails.
Clicking the ‘Undo’ link will bring that email back to the compose email screen where you can edit back that email. Remember, it can’t pull back email that already sent.
The next Gmail lab feature that I wish to have is, ’recall’ feature, just like what Outlook can do, or even better.
Gmail today introduce an enhancement how its handle videos and photos from Picasa, Flickr and Youtube. The new lab feature, will enable photos sent from Picasa and Flickr as well as video from Youtube to be shown within the email itself, without leaving Gmail in order to view it.
In order to enjoy this feature, yYou have to enable it from setting -> lab and enable the setup one by one.
This is how Flickr photos sent to my Gmail looks like.
Same goes to Youtube, but it works even better. You can play the video directly from within that email. So do you think this cool?
An addition to Google Docs and Google Sites, Google Apps’s Premier and Education customers can start tracking the Gmail usage in the organization using Google Analytics.
Just like usual Analytics, implementing this feature will allow administrator to view the statistic such as users’ locations, languages, length of visit, etc.
Please note that, Google Apps’s Standard edition customer as well as normal Gmail users doesn’t have this feature.
If you new to Google Apps, this is how to set it up, or read more here.
Log in to the Google Apps admin control panel at https://www.google.com/a/your_domain.com.
Click Advanced tools along the blue navigation bar.
Next to Reporting, click Set up Google Analytics. If you haven’t yet created an account for Google Analytics, click Learn more in the New to Analytics? section. You can enter your domain name as the primary URL for your Google Analytics account.
In the text field for Web Property ID, enter your Google Analytics Web Property ID. The format of the Web Property ID is like this: UA-10876-1. If you aren’t sure how to locate the Web Property ID in your Google Analytics account, click here.
Click Save changes. It takes up to 24 hours to start tracking your domain. In Google Analytics, the status will read ‘tracking not installed’ for up to 24 hours.
Education customers can start 