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At Living Portals & Systems, we build e-Communities, People and Systems. Our slogan completely captures our corporate and business orientation. Our Vision/Mission is to build e-Communities (we have a few active, ongoing and future Projects); People (we believe that in building the Youth, we are building a People; and in building a People, we build a Nation. We have a passion for Youth Work and view it as our corporate responsibility to our community); Systems (we are passionate about improving  Services and Systems by utilizing convinience technology).

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Google Apps Education Edition: An Overview

Mon, 04/19/2010 - 15:15 - TechnicalSupport |  | 
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1.      What is Google Apps?
“Google Apps Education Edition is a broad IT solution that schools can use to bring communication and collaboration tools to the entire academic community for free. Google manages all the technology details, so you can focus your time, energy and budgets on teaching your students.”
“Students, teachers and staff can share ideas more quickly and get things done more effectively when they have access to the same powerful communication and sharing tools.
Google Apps Education Edition lets tech administrators provide email, sharable online calendars, instant messaging tools and even a dedicated website to faculty, students and staff for free. There's no hardware or software to install or maintain, since everything is delivered through a standard web browser -- anytime, from anyplace.”

Some major benefits of switching to Google Apps

Sun, 04/18/2010 - 05:51 - TechnicalSupport |  | 
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1.   Proven cost savings.
With Google's web-based email, messaging and collaboration apps you will require no hardware or software and will need minimal administration, which will be creating tremendous time and cost savings for businesses.
End users can use the familiar Microsoft Outlook interface for email, contacts and calendar as they transition to Gmail and Google Calendar.
A leading research firm found that Google Apps is as little as 1/3 the total cost of competing solutions.

7 things you should know about ... Google Apps

Sat, 04/17/2010 - 14:39 - TechnicalSupport |  | 
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1.   What is it?
Google Apps is a collection of web-based programs and file storage that run in a web browser, without requiring users to buy or install software. Users can simply log in to the service to access their files and the tools to manipulate them. The offerings include communication tools (Gmail, Google Talk, and Google Calendar), productivity tools (Google Docs: text files, spreadsheets, and presentations), a customizable start page (iGoogle), and Google Sites (to develop web pages). Basically, these tools are free. However, users may have to pay for setup and support or could pay for a Premium Edition that adds more storage space and other features. Alternatively, an Education Edition includes most of the extras in the Premium Edition and is offered at no cost to K–12 and higher education institutions, however Google partners and vendors may charge a one-time fee for setup and annual maintenance. Google Apps for Education, allows institutions to use their own domain name with the service and to customize the interface to reflect the branding of that institution. In this way, a college or university can offer the functionality of Google Apps in a package (and with a URL) that is familiar and comfortable to constituents.