New Holiday templates in Google Docs to keep you organized this Holiday season

You can save time and money with the Google Docs template gallery for documents, spreadsheets and presentations. The templates are useful for every one from a small business owner or the chief holiday organizer. The gallery includes a few special templates designed to help you manage holidays this season better. Here are some of the useful templates:

• Survey form to update mailing list
• Holiday Postcard
• Mailing Labels
• Gift Tags
• Video Cards
• Newsletter
• Gift certificates
• invitation cards
• RSVP capture to Party
• Budget Tracker

It's easy to get started with any of these tips.

Click File -> New -> From Template to be taken to the main template gallery where you click the "Holiday" category to see just the holiday templates, or you can tab through to filter results by product. Pick the design you like and edit it for your needs.

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Wesleyan University goes for Google Apps

Wesleyan University's (http://www.wesleyan.edu) WSA-ITS Committee has announced announce that the transition to Google Apps for Education has been approved and will go online for the start of the spring semester.

Google Apps will give students many new options in their digital lifestyle, including expanded e-mail capacity, calendaring, and digital collaboration.

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Webinar: Achieve Success on Enterprise-class Google Apps Deployments

Registration is required to join this event.

Date and time: Thursday, December 4, 2008 10:00 am
Pacific Standard Time (GMT -08:00, San Francisco)
Program: Google Apps Webinars
Duration: 1 hour
Description: Achieve Success on Enterprise-class Google Apps Deployments
Topic: Achieve Success on Enterprise-class Google Apps Deployments
Speaker: Customer, (speaker TBD)
Intended Audience: 1000+; IT professionals; Health care; manufacturing, media, retail

Short description: A large pharmaceutical company, Genentech (http://www.gene.com/gene) has recently implemented Google Apps. Learn how Google Apps is used at this leading pharmaceutical company with 12,000 distributed employees. Hear from one of the chief project leads on the people, process and technology considerations that made the deployment a success.

Learn how this leading pharmaceutical maximized the chances for the deployment's success by:

* Phasing in usage of each Google Apps to ensure adoption
* Providing top-notch training materials to educate users
* Identifying "Google Guides" to help train users
* Using marketing tools to create enthusiasm

More and more companies are moving away from traditional/legacy infrastructure and migrating towards a SaaS approach, I really think this webinar will be educational and informational, in terms of gleaming insights and experience from a company that is definitely way ahead of the game when it comes to technology adoption.

To register click here

Google has launched a new Desktop gadget for Gmail

Google has launched a new Desktop gadget that you can use to monitor your Gmail Inbox, read messages, and compose new emails. Check out the announcement on the Gmail blog.

Google released Google Desktop in 2004. Google Desktop is designed to make searching a PC as easy as searching the Web. It provides full-text search over e-mail, files, music, photos, chats, Gmail and Web pages viewed, according to Google. The application includes other gadgets that allow users to be shown new e-mail, weather updates, photos and personalized news.

Here are some of the ways you can use this new Gmail Desktop gadget:

* It doesn't take up much space in your sidebar or desktop, and you can also resize it to show as few or as many messages as you'd like.
* You can also keep two instances of the gadget open - one logged into your personal Gmail account and the other set to Your Google Apps account for work-related stuff. Instead of getting lost in a sea of tabs or browser windows, you can bring up the gadgets in an instant.

Download this Gadget from here