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Unit 7: Cloud Services Uses

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by one of the internet giants with all its support and reliability but with an email address
personalised to your company.
And Google Mail accounts cost nothing to create.
I showed Steve how he could in one simple step have a set of email addresses and a central
Green's Cleaning Google Calendar. The email addresses and calendar could be added to
his iPhone and iPad giving him a simple mobile office. The cleaning staff could be given
read-only access to the Google Calendar on their phones too.

By splitting the main calendar into sections each van crew has their own appointment list.
Now soon as Steve enters an appointment he can give the job to a particular team. That
appointment can be viewed by the cleaning crew in that van. Great for those last minute
and emergency appointments. Steve can enter as much detail as needed and not worry
about a cleaner not writing down the instructions correctly.

Steve Green says:
Tony worked conscientiously toward turning my ideas into reality and created a system
which achieved greater autonomy within my workforce thus saving me many hours
work each week.
By using a free Google account we managed to:
1. Give instant access to new appointments to Green's Cleaning staff out on the road
2. Improve the image of Green's Cleaning with a consistent email address for customer
communications
3. Split Steve's personal and business emails so he is not carrying the office around 24
hours a day.

Many businesses can benefit from using simple solutions like this. If you own one of them
why not contact us today to discuss how Quickstep IT could help you.
Questions:

1. How can you create a Google account?
2. How is a Google account useful?
Source: http://www.quickstepit.net/greens-cleaning-google-calendar/

7.4 Summary

Cloud services with application that help to get organized—calendars, schedulers, planner,
and task management tool whether you want to keep a simple group calendar or to-do list
or need something more powerful to schedule appointments and meetings, you’re sure to
find some Web-based application.

An online scheduling application is a solution to all your scheduling and task management
problems. This web-based application takes care of scheduling your meetings, for both
large and small groups.
Google Calendar is a free time-management web application offered by Google. It is the
most popular Web-based calendar today, which undoubtedly is due to its association with
the web’s most-used search engine.
Yahoo! Calendar is a Web-based calendar service from Yahoo!. It can read calendar feeds
and events collected from sites that make use of the published Yahoo! calendar
programming interfaces.

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