Starting now you can manually turn on Google for your organization. Once Google is turned on, your users will just need to sign up at google.com/ to get started. For customers who use Google Apps for Business or the free version of Google Apps and who have chosen to automatically enable new services, Google will automatically become available to all of your users over the next several days.* Google Apps users will have access to the same set of features that are available to every Google user, and more. In addition to sharing publicly or with your circles, you’ll also have the option to share with everyone in your organization, even if you haven’t added all of those people to a circle. (via Official Google Enterprise Blog: Google is now available with Google Apps)
While the educational side is definitely neat, huddle seems to be the only thing I’m interested in besides “ease of sharing” within the organization. I’m having trouble imagining google+ in my organization without that being a bad thing. Unless this is just phase 2 of their “google+ is an identity service”-and-now-we-will-take-over-the-job-market plan. Oh that google…
7 months ago
