Google Fanatic
Well for the past couple of days I have been using the Google Suite with a frenzy. I have been focussing on Google Reader and Google Notebook. In this post I want to give you a quick one or two paragraph description of a few of Google’s programs which I have recently started learning how to use.
Google Notebook
This is such a nice tool for bloggers and article writers on the go. Whereever you have an internet connection you will have your latest notes, ready to put together that killer article for your site. You can create multiple notebooks, and there is even a browser extension which allows you to add notes on the fly from any webpage.
Google Reader
It is still in the Google Labs but I think Google Reader is a vital resource for any respectable internet user. Using Google Reader I subscribe to all the blogs and websites which I really enjoy reading. Google then consolodates all the latest posts into one place where I can read then straight away without actually going from site to site. I even subscribe to my own blog’s comment feed as you see all the comments in one place instead of on each individual post.
The best thing about Google reader is that you can scan articles and easily tag articles for more detailed reading or investigation. This is a huge time saver as I always find myselj being distracted by the internet and ending up so far away from where I started, without a single shred of progress.You can tag articles with multiple tags so organising your subscriptions is a breeze.
Google Analytics
I have mentioned this before but I think that another honourable mension might be in order, and they have just revamped their whole site with new graphs and stats collection.
Google Analytics takes a small piece of code and asks you to place it on your website.
You can see all sorts of stats about who is spending time on your blog, what pages they visit, whether they are new unique visitors or returning visitor, How much time on average do they spend on your site, and key words used to bring them to your site.
There are many more features to Google Analytics, so sign up for free and start playing with it.
Other tools from Google
There are a few other Google tools which are fairly straight forward kind of tools like Excel and Word which are very cool online applications provided for free by Google.
I almost forgot the calendar from google. It is brilliant because your entire calendar is in there. I am trying to find a way to syncronise the google calendar to my phone but everything I tried didn’t work at all correctly.
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