Facebook

 Facebook is a social networking site that connects people and has over 250 million users. With Facebook you can set up a company network that can be used as a local intranet. Like Google's Gmail Facebook can be accessed from any location. With Facebook you can transfer your project documents, show links to other tools, send notes, or even send videos. It is a great tool for publishing company information to employees who may be out of town or on vacation who may not have access to a company intranet. Facebook has the mobile capability that will alert you by a text message when you friend requests, wall posts, or status updates. You can also upload pictures on your cell phone to Facebook page. Like Google calendar you can display events and share them with others. With Facebook you can link your favorite blog page or integrate with other social networking sites.

Google Calendar

        Google calendar is offered to anyone who has a Gmail account free. The calendar is setup in a way much like other calendar designs like Microsoft outlook. Like other Google products, Google calendar is stored by Google so you can access it from any location. Its setup is very easy to use and it allows you to drop and drag events from day to day without editing a new page. Calendar was has an import application that allow you to import from other calendar software. Calendar is integrated with other Google sites like Gmail, iGoogle, and Google desktop. Events can be sent by email, directly to your mobile devices or as a pop-up on your computer. With Google calendar you decide who and what kind of information employees or clients get to see. With the click of a button you can add Google calendar to your toolbar. Google also supplies the user with many different help menus that can make your experience much smother.

Twitter and Blog Pages

Twitter is a social networking site that enables it's users to communicate messages up to 140 characters long. Integrating blogger into your Twitter account could allow a company extra advertising for their product. Twitter allows thousands of users and listens to enter into conversations conducted among multiple users. Twitter can be used to capture attention of others and promote yourself like you market a good. The small business can use Twitter as a channel which connects current and potential customers with your product or brand. Integrating twitter with a blog page with your ideas or product information allows that many more individuals the opportunity to view. Twitter allows the placement of links within profiles to other social networking sites or other blog pages. Twitter marketing is a task that involves two-way audience engagement which could also help clear up mistaken information about your product. Twitter can be used as a company intranet that connects employees to one another especially when working out of town or on special projects. For the small business Twitter can help with branding, receiving feedback, hiring employees, press releases, and setting up meetings. Twitter is one of a few networking sites that are becoming popular for locating jobs. There is a Twitter application TWTJOBS that will allow you to create a resume or post a job opening for a business. There are many apps that go along with Twitter. Creating a blog and installing it on Twitter could equal free advertising and that would help any business.

Manymoon Project Management Software

Manymoon is free project management software that incorporates Google Apps. The free membership entitles the user to unlimited tasks, unlimited projects, unlimited users, Google Apps integration and document uploads. Storage space is limited to 5MB; however they offer two different upgrades for small monthly fees. The easy to use web interface allows users to create projects, assign tasks and track progress. Commands and tools are housed in submenus and tabs to keep visual clutter on any given page to a minimum. Your home screen looks more like a Facebook newsfeed than the dashboard interface you might be used to from other management software. You receive updates here based on the recent activities of members on your project team. Things like the creation or completion of a task or a project, what any member is currently working on, and additions to the project team will all show up here as they occur. Manymoon has links to Twitter and Facebook along with their own pages so you can receive software upgrades. Manymoon’s tight integration with Google Docs makes adding documents to a task or project a snap. It retrieves a list of your documents and you just pick which one you want.

Google docs

Google Docs has about any kind of template you can think of for doing a project. You can sort by the most used or highest rated documents. If you still can’t find what you are looking for you can narrow down your search by type such as documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and just forms. When you select documents you can find resume, research papers, cover letters, invoices, business plan, and the list goes on and on. Once you have found the template you want just select it and it will appear on the doc’s page. From Google docs you can search your documents, upload documents, and share documents with anyone you choose. The search option found in Google Docs can search down to an individual word or name. When uploading documents they can’t be larger than 500KB, and spreadsheets not larger than 1MB. From the docs page you have all the project management tools such as calendar, gmail, reader, and all other Google sites at the touch of a mouse. The Google docs page is set up just like most email in boxes and is just that simple to use.

Project Management Scheduling

Project Management Scheduling can make a good project become a great project. Project management scheduler is a great replacement for either Microsoft Project or Microsoft Excel. Considering the free price it is without a dubt the best scheduler on the market. There are many videos on the internet to help explain the many uses of this tool.

One of the major advantages of scheduler is that it can be viewed from anywhere you have internet access. Because Google handles the server and maintains the backups you don't have to rely on the company server and your IT department. The structure of the spreadsheet is very simple to operate and distribute to other members of your organization. When operating the spreadsheet insert your task then you will have to estimate how long the task will take to complete. Next assign the department or person to the task and how much of the task has been completed. There are several other little quirks you have the option to do but most are not required.

Project scheduling is an important tool for most industrial companies who require scheduled shutdowns for the production of goods. This software enables managers to inquire about tasks or jobs without making a lot of phone calls. One major draw back to this scheduler is that it can't read people's mind so you have to update the schedule.

Google Project Management Apps

Google Project Management Apps standard edition offer Gmail, Google calendar, Google documents and Google sites for free. Also with the standard edition you can create your own web pages for free. For $10 dollars a year you can buy a domain name for your organization. This allows you to create user accounts on this domain name. There is also a premier edition which offers many other services for a small price per year. This paper will deal on with the standard edition.

Gmail and Google calendar can be accessed from mobile devices or Microsoft Outlook. Google Gmail has filters for spam and 25GB of storage per user. Google search technology helps you search for emails or messages very quick and they use Email Security to prevent data leaks. Google calendar can be used to enter meeting details and send out invitations. Share project calendars allow coworkers to edit and share events companywide or with only specific people.

Google documents allow administrators the right to control and manage employee’s rights to corporate documents. Using Google documents will allow workers to share spreadsheets and presentation remotely or internally to view. Documents also allow importing and exporting of documents with many different formats.

Google sites allow companies to share knowledge, build an intranet or build sites to share knowledge throughout the different departments. Google documents are very user friendly allowing just about anyone to display videos, slideshows, update web pages or create internal sites without expert programming skills. There are many layers of security to protect your important documentation.

One of the most important advantages of Google Apps is that Google runs the servers with a 99.9% uptime guarantee. There is no hardware or software required and data remains on Google’s infrastructure.