It has been an interesting week and really quite gratifying from several points of view. Firstly there are people who in the past have been keen social media skeptics that are now taking up the cudgels and jumping in both feet first...be there or be square!
One of my clients has had great success working the Internet to their advantage with very little budget, a good deal of tenacity and a down to earth belief that this would work for them. Bravo! Nice to work with like minds.
This week has seen a flurry of releases from Google including Google + and Swiffy (a Flash to HTML 5 convertor). Google has also defended its own online collaboration apps against Microsoft's Office 365. So the major incumbents are keeping themselves in the news at least!
Also in a month where it has been reported that Facebook has started to lose US and UK subscribers it would appear that we are still in the kindergarten stage of connectivity and the Internet. When we can all talk to each other in the same language without having to fill in a form, it may be considered mature!
As for Google Apps I have started to use them and am quite impressed by their simplicity, ease of use and the way in which they enable collaborative working. During the last few months network problems at the school where I am a Governor suggest that this may be the way forward..."put it up in the Cloud and let someone else manage it while we get on with what we are good at!" The big hump is not so much the apps but the file systems and directories, we need, dare I say it... a paradigm shift!
