Official Google Blog: Getting it done with Google Apps
As you might have heard recently, in addition to search and advertising, we’re focused on a third key area of innovation: powerful applications that run on the web and that let you collaborate and communicate in new ways. Not only do we offer email, calendaring, and document creation and collaboration services (and more!) for individuals, but with Google Apps, businesses, schools and other organizations can customize these tools and use them as their own internal systems.
Here at Nimble Books we use Google Apps throughout the process of publishing. the “baked-in” collaboration features are a great help.
* Contracts are negotiated using Google Docs
* Sales and royalties are tracked and shared on a daily basis using a Google spreadsheet. (Those not familiar with publishing may not realize what a huge increase in transparency this is over the normal six-months-late cryptic royalty statement).
* When authors request review copies, they use a Google Spreadsheet to enter address info (this is a great advantage over the normal e-mail with a half-complete address!)
* When we do marketing campaigns, we import .csv contact lists into Google Mail and use tags to create a “loosely structured” mailing database. Free is a much better price than commercial contact management services which start around $2,000!
If you’re interested in learning more about how we publish, see Why Publish With Us.
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