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Getting Liberated: Easy Backups for Google Products

Byte Technology

You’re meticulous about keeping your Gmail and photos perfectly organized and up to date. You spend loads of time crafting YouTube videos. Your blog posts are works of art. You live and breathe on Google Drive. But have you been blindingly relying on the Internet behemoth to keep your data safe and sound? Never fear, Google Takeout is here.

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Google+ Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

UPDATED 1/8/12: Thanks to the launch of Google+ Pages for brands, Google+ traffic hit an all time high in December 2011 and it’s likely that the trend will continue in 2012. Set up your Google/Gmail Account and personal Google+ Profile. . When signing up for Google/Gmail, be sure to use a real first and last name.

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Why You Need a Mobile Ready Email Template

NetWits

Here’s how our messages showed up in iOS: And Gmail renders things similarly: This is no small matter. Campaign Monitor found that as of June 2011, iOS and Gmail accounted for up to 23% of email clients. So, that addresses what our readers saw when they received messages from us on their mobile devices or in Gmail.

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10 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

8) Do not use a Gmail, Yahoo, or Hotmail email address for your professional communications. Related Links: 11 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers for 2011. Always include a salutation (Hello, Dear, etc.) and closing (Thanks, Cheers, Salud, etc.). yourname@amnesty.org.

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If you’re a Salesforce user, 3 great reasons to use Google Chrome

Judi Sohn

I live in Google applications (Gmail, Google Reader, Calendar, etc.) Update 6/8/2011: Steve has already updated the extension so a 2nd click on the icon in the toolbar pulls the 18 digit ID. I’ve been using it as my default on my MacBook and iMac for quite some time now. so it’s almost a no-brainer for that reason alone.

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What if Cloud Vendors Go Out of Business or Delete Your Account?

Tech Soup

Perhaps the most famous of these was the outage of the Sony PlayStation Network that took down their cloud based service for nearly a month in the spring of 2011 and affected Sony's 70 million users. In February 2011 Google inadvertently deleted 150,000 Gmail accounts due to an internal software problem.

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Need a mobile strategy? Start with your email.

Care2

Email reading on mobile devices rose 81% from October, 2010, to April, 2011. Google Gmail. As the Campaign Monitor CSS report indicates, support for CSS features varies widely across email clients and it is important to know the differences when you’re wondering why your message looks funky in Gmail. 2000 - 2010.

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