Here is a bit of a tip for you.
www.google.com/a Google Apps.
Watch video presentation on google apps now.
http://internetinstructionmanual.com
This will power your company and put everyone on one page. Streamline your office email accounts and consolodate all domain names and emails into one master account.
If you need someone to set it up for you and get your company started or add extra company gadgets to your site to enable better communications that are custom to your office please contact me for assistance and a price quote for setup. After setup you will be able to administer your own email and more on your own and never depend on a tech again. Google.com gives this service to you for free.
Example of a working start page...
http://partnerpage.google.com/ciragent.com
You can have this too. It is free but set up can cost a few if you cannot do it yourself.
Here is the information direct from Google.
Google Apps has what you need to power up your organization
Google Apps brings together essential services to help your business, school, group or family communicate and collaborate more effectively. These services are powerful, easy to set up, require no maintenance, and you can get them for free. Everything is unified by the Start Page, a central place for your users to preview their inboxes and calendars, access your essential content, and search the web. Administrators can choose to deploy a mix of the communication and collaboration products listed below.
Communicate and connect
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Gmail -- Offer custom email addresses to your organization with up to 25 gigabytes of storage for each account, search tools to help people find information fast, plus instant messaging and calendar tools built right into the email interface. Learn more |
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Google Talk -- Your users can call or send instant messages to their contacts for free -- anytime, anywhere in the world. File sharing and voicemail is included, too. Learn more |
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Google Calendar -- Your users can organize their schedules and share events, meetings and entire calendars with others. Your organization can also publish calendars and events on the web. Learn more |
Collaborate and publish
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Google Docs -- Co-workers can create documents, spreadsheets and presentations and share online files without having to keep track of multiple versions of the same attachment. Learn more |
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The Start Page -- A central place for your users to preview their inboxes and calendars, access your essential content, and search the web. Learn more |
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Google Sites -- Work together to keep related documents, web content and other information in one place, on one site. Learn more |
that's really interesting, it seems as though google does everything!!! Does this come with the google cappuccino feature as well? LoL. very neat post, thank you for the update.
Google does doe everything. I just buried my blackberry...you talk about simplifying my life!
Excellent heads up!
Bob Mitchell
ValueList Real Estate Services, Inc.
Great info. We currently use Google Docs and Applications for everything we do and has been essential for working in a team environment.
Very good thing to have...
Let's put this into perspective.
You have 10 computers running Microsoft office. Upgrades cost how much per year? On each one?
With google docs. No more upgrade fees and everyone has access to the system in your company. No one has to shell out hundreds of dollars for software. All have the same system, all are compatible and all can be shared and worked on together.
Not to mention... What happens when you fire your IT person or company? Who admins your email now? You should be doing that in the first place. With Google Apps.
Here is a link to setting up the mail on your office computers.
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=76147
Very easy and complete instructions.
If you have questions please post them here.
Here is another example of this system running for a different real estate company in Southern Idaho.
visit. http://start.magicvalleyrelaty.com
This is the central point for all communications for the office. Docs, presentations, office spreadsheets, email, instant messeging and more.
Your company needs this system if you have more than one agent.
Calendars are shared between one or all. Upto U.
Check it out. Call me if you want me to set it up for you.
Buy a new dot com to run your new email system. I can even integrate several different emails from different domains into the same account.