Bringing Google+ to work

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Bringing Google+ to work

On the Google Apps team, we wake up every day excited to work on products that are powering a fundamental shift in business technologies. Whole companies are moving into the cloud, where they rely on the same web-based applications their employees use at home: Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Drive. We call this trend “going Google.” Like Google Apps, we think Google+ can help colleagues collaborate more easily and get things done—and get to know each other along the way. Here’s how:

Private sharing for your organization
Apps users now have more control over the content they post – now, when you create a post you can mark it as restricted. Restricted posts are private to your organization and can never be re-shared with anyone outside. At the same time, when you create a post, you have the flexibility to share it with specific partners or colleagues outside the organization as well if you choose. 

Learn more: http://goo.gl/Bk3fc

Video meetings integrated with Gmail, Calendar and Docs
When you’re on Google Apps, holding a face-to-face meeting with colleagues or clients around the world doesn’t require coordinated travel schedules or expensive video conferencing technology. All you need is a device with a camera and an internet connection. Hangouts lets up to 10 people join a video meeting from their laptop, phone or tablet. 

Here’s how you can use Hangouts directly with apps you already use – Gmail, Calendar and Docs:
* Our latest upgrade to video chat in Gmail brings Hangouts-powered multi-way video chat to Gmail.
* For scheduled meetings you can add a Hangout to a Calendar event. Attendees can join the hangout directly from the invite or Calendar entry.
* Once you’re in the meeting, add a doc and edit it together using the Docs integration we added earlier this year.

Administrative Controls
To help make sure users are sharing only with the people they intend, administrators can now set company-wide defaults for post restrictions. They can also enable restricted Hangouts to facilitate private meetings within the company.

Learn more: http://goo.gl/MpX2P, http://goo.gl/hLnPp 

Just the Beginning
These latest business features for Google+ are just a start. We have a lot more planned for the coming months, including a mobile version of Google+ for enterprise users and more administrative controls.

Get started
These new Google+ features are available in full preview mode for Google Apps customers. During this preview period, organizations that have gone Google will be able to use the business features of Google+ for free through the end of 2013 while we continue to add more features and administrative controls designed for organizations. 

Bring Google+ to work: http://goo.gl/fR6hY.
Stay up-to-date on Google+ features for your organization: google.com/+GoogleEnterprise.