April 21, 2010 Google Docs – New & Improved New Tech Share this post: Just over a week ago, Google Docs released a new version, or should I say they added some necessary improvements? Google Docs new features Some of the highlight new features (taken in part from Google’s only laundry list here): The ability to upload, store, and share any file in Google Docs. Your files will be stored in their original format and downloadable from anywhere. When multiple people are editing a document, the app will automatically track who says what in different colours (at last!). [for the international groups], Google Docs will translate and detect languages in Google spreadsheets. You can also now translate an entire document into over 40 languages. In that Google Docs now includes co-editing features, similar to Google Wave, which will be the winning platform? For example, GD now has sidebar chat making it possible discuss documents as you co-create and edit documents with your on-line team. In terms of editing rights in the spreadsheet app, with two levels of validation, “strict and lenient,” you can now control what you and your collaborators enter into a spreadsheet. In an echo of Slideshare, you can now track how much traffic a particular published document is getting through Google Analytics. Another evidently fun new feature (with which I have yet to play) is the Google Drawings which allows for co-editing, and you can download into standard formats, as well as copy/paste into a document on Google Docs. At a certain point, maybe Google Wave and Google Docs will do a sort of merger (without the need for Investment Bankers fortunately). The big issue remains that Google Docs is not mobile friendly — neither on the iPhone nor the iPad. Here is Google’s own YouTube 1min46 overview video. If you have never used Google Docs, now is a good time to start. NEWSletter Subscribe to Minter’s Bi-Weekly NEWSletter and receive a free copy of the exclusive and updated 8 Golden Rules of an eReputation Your Gift For Signing Up 8 Golden Rules of an eReputation SUBSCRIBE! You have Successfully Subscribed! apple, computer, Google, Google Docs, ipad, iphone, Mobile, New Tech Minter Dial Minter Dial is an international professional speaker, author & consultant on Leadership, Branding and Digital Strategy. After a successful international career at L’Oréal, Minter Dial returned to his entrepreneurial roots and has spent the last ten years helping senior management teams and Boards to adapt to the new exigencies of the digitally enhanced marketplace. He has worked with world-class organisations to help activate their brand strategies, and figure out how best to integrate new technologies, digital tools, devices and platforms. Above all, Minter works to catalyse a change in mindset and dial up transformation. Minter received his BA in Trilingual Literature from Yale University (1987) and gained his MBA at INSEAD, Fontainebleau (1993). His newest book Heartificial Empathy, Putting Heart into Business and Artificial Intelligence, bowed in December 2018 and won the Book Excellence Award 2019 as well as being shortlisted for the Business Book Awards 2019. It's available in Audiobook, Kindle and Paperback. He is also co-author of Futureproof (Pearson, Sep 2017) and sole author of The Last Ring Home (Myndset Press, Nov 2016), a book and documentary film, both of which have won awards and critical acclaim. Minter has a new book on leadership, You Lead, How being yourself makes you a better leader, published by Kogan Page, that released January 2021. It's easy to inquire about booking Minter Dial here. View all posts by Minter Dial Previous post Next post