How to Measure Site usage statistics for Google Sites

Google Sites now provides a simple way to track site usage, by integrating with Google Analytics. This is available to Standard, Premier, Education and Team Editions using Language US English (New features are first released to US English)

Here is how to access this new feature:

• Sign in to Google Sites
• Open the site which you want to track
• Click 'Site Settings'
• Navigate to the settings page for 'Other stuff'
• Check the box for 'Statistics' and paste your Google Analytics account ID in the box, and click 'Save changes'.
  

To get a Google Analytics account ID you'll need to sign in to your Google Analytics account with the site details.

Gmail adds support for 8 new languages

Keeping up with its continuous development approach Google Apps mail has now added 8 new languages. This is available to Standard, Premier, Education and Partner Editions

New Languages
Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Tamil and Telugu

Gmail now supports following languages

Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Norwegian, Oriya, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, UK English, US English, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.

To access what's new - Sign in to Gmail, click 'Settings', and select the interface language you prefer.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/gmail.html

Google Apps Tip: Google Docs Color-coded comments

When reviewing your co-workers online documents, you can insert color-coded comments to differentiate from the rest of the text.

How to insert color coded comments in a Google Document?

Place your cursor where you'd like your comment to appear, and click the 'Insert' tab along the top of the page. Select the 'Comment' icon from the displayed toolbar and let the ideas flow.

Using menu takes a lot of time. Is there are shortcut for inserting color-coded comments in a Google Document?

You can also use the keyboard shortcut, Ctrl-M, to insert a comment.

Google Apps Small Business Customer Success: Boshak

Boshak is a a unique tourist destination one and a half hours drive from Perth, Western Australia. Boshack has been featured on Getaway, and is a popular destination for travellers wanting to experience the Australian outback, see a working wheat/sheep farm, eat bush tucker, see native Australian wildlife and learn about the Aboriginal dreamtime.

Boshak has recently switched to Google Apps for their email, documents, calendering needs and are very happy with the experience. Following are excerpts from their experience published in http://om4.com.au a leading online marketing portal for business.

Link: http://om4.com.au/moving-email-google-apps/

Challenge

• Multiple email ids - difficult to manage
• Wanted to collrobate while working on mails, documents
• Maintain corporate identity
• Wanted an easy to use solution as users were not very conversant in using technology

Solution

• Switched to Google Apps Standard Edition
  
• Low cost to switch - Free Google Apps / Low cost service provider
• Extensive user support by vendor to overcome any initial hiccups
  

Business benefits

• Access from anywhere
  
• Spam controlled
• Consolidations - time saver
• Collarobation on documents

"We moved to Google Docs about 6 months ago and this is also an amazing program as we run our business from 4 different locations with 3 different people needing to access emails and spreadsheets. We now have one log in each for all of this with our email included."

Deryck Brockhurst is the Managing Director of Boshak,

• Easy to us

"The way to go for simplicity, accessibility and especially if you need to share docs emails"

Deryck Brockhurst is the Managing Director of Boshak,

Note: These excerpts are from http://om4.com.au/moving-email-google-apps/ and all rights are with om4.com.au