Google is much more than search. The web service offers a huge suite of online productivity tools that can dramatically improve your workflow, and transform how you communicate and collaborate online with colleagues and clients. It's also an online marketing channel that can be used to promote your accounting practice and even generate revenue from your website or blog. Most of the tools are free or nearly free, easy to use, a snap to apply, huge time and money savers, super convenient, available around the clock from any web-connected computer, and literally right under your fingertips. Why wouldn't you want to learn more? This seminar will provide participants with the knowledge and skills they need to use a wide range of Google productivity applications and be more efficient online.

Who Should Attend
Practitioners at all levels who use the Internet (and who doesn’t?). The seminar is especially relevant for practitioners who use e-mail, calendars, to do lists, spreadsheets, forms, word processing, presentation tools, web publishing software, instant messaging, videos, maps, photos and mobile devices (and who isn’t?). Google offers its own versions of this software that is not only free but also superior to Microsoft Office in many respects. Google delivers more and better accessibility, file backup, spam filters, data synchronization across devices, product upgrades, and online collaboration (did you know up to 50 people can edit a Google spreadsheet simultaneously in real time?).

Topics Covered

• Why use Google apps?
• Google Apps pros and cons
• Setting up a Google account
• Google office suite (Gmail, Google Calendar, Documents, Spreadsheets, Presentations, and Forms)
• Google web publishing and work spaces (Google Sites, Groups, Blogger, Picasa Web Albums)
• Google presence (Google Profile, Dashboard, Local Business Centre, Adwords)
• Google location awareness (Google Maps, Earth, Latitude, Mobile)
• Google communications (Google Voice, Wave)
• Google assistance (Google Help, Blog Directory)

Learning Objectives

• Manage your Google presence and set up a free Google profile, dashboard and business listing
• Use Google’s Gmail service and its key folder, label, task, filter, archive, chat and mobile phone sync features
• Create, edit, share and embed Google calendars and use its daily notification, event reminder and mobile calendar sync features
• Create, edit, share, embed, publish, import and export spreadsheets, forms, documents and presentations
• Create and publish customized websites, intranets, blogs, groups, photo galleries and online workspaces with no programming knowledge
• Adjust permission settings that let you designate owners, viewers and collaborators (meaning they can edit pages) for online documents and work spaces you create
• Create, edit, share, publish and embed custom online maps
• Use Google location awareness tools to keep track of your physical location, visualize your location history, and alert you when friends are nearby
• Create and publish a targeted text ad that appears in Google search engine results
• Get expert help on using Google products from Google engineers
• Improve your online workflow, communications and productivity

Level
Basic

Format
Live webcast

Instructional Method
Group: Internet-based

NASBA Field of Study
Specialized Knowledge and Applications (4 hours)

Program Prerequisites
None

Advance Preparation
None

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