Next General Meeting: By Lisa Leifels Fourteen years have passed since Google was founded in 1998 and it’s hard to remember how challenging it once was to find what you needed on the internet. Google has grown into a mature company since then that now offers a wide range of products beyond the company’s famous search engine. Google Apps, Google Voice and Google+ are a few of Google’s other products that you will have the opportunity to learn more about at the September General Meeting. Would you like to have access to your email, calendar and documents from any location on more than one of your devices? If so then you may want to find out more about what Google Apps has to offer. Google Apps offers a very capable collection of tools including Gmail and Google Calendar, which are both available for free. Google Docs is a strong collaboration tool that gives you the ability to create and edit documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Are you interested in consolidating your cell, home, and work numbers into a single phone number? Google Voice lets you do this and manage how each call is handled through a powerful online service. Some of the other features included in Google Voice are greetings that can be personalized by caller, and voicemails that can be transcribed and sent as text messages or emails to your cell phone. You can also make inexpensive international calls directly from your mobile device, and U.S. numbers are free. Google+ is now more than a year old and has 250 million registered users. It is available as a website and on mobile devices, and lets you share and connect with family and friends and follow interesting people. This is your chance to learn how Google+ can be used to create a social identity across the web. Who could possibly be better to teach us about Google’s products than Millicent Branca, who serves as Google’s product specialist in their New York City office. You certainly don’t want to miss out on the September 4, 2012 presentation, so don’t forget to mark the date on your calendar.
--- DACS meetings are usually held at the Danbury Hospital auditorium. (Click here for directions and parking information.) Activities begin at 6:30 p.m. with registration and casual networking. The meeting starts at 7:00 p.m. with a question and answer period (Ask DACS), followed by announcements and a short break. The featured evening presentation begins at 8:00. The meeting is scheduled to adjourn at 9:30 p.m. DACS General Meetings are free and open to the public. Members and prior attendees are encouraged to extend invitations to anyone interested in this topic. Danbury Area Computer Society (DACS) is a registered nonprofit and has been serving the region since 1990.
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