MiramarMike: Blog

Note: this post was orginally a set of pages on the old WaveAdept site. All WaveAdept links now point to the equivalent Cloud Sherpas page and out of date information has been removed Moving to the cloud, be it Google Apps or any other service, raises valid questions for all businesses that need resolving to everyone's satisfaction and, in my many years of bringing Google Apps to businesses, I have realised the New Zealand business of all sizes have very similar questions, namely: Privacy - Will anyone in Google be able to see/use my company information? Security - Who knows how secure the servers are, and what about the data travelling across the public Internet? NZ Internet link - We have only one link out of NZ and what if it gets bombed by Al-Qaeda? Change - Why bother changing, we can do everything on our own machines which we've paid good money for? Functionality - If it just doesn't have all the features of Microsoft Word it can't be that good. n

Copy of old WaveAdept post dated Feb 21st, 2011 - re-posted here to preserve the content During the lead up to Webstock we wondered how we could both pimp our wares and give something useful to all the attendees - we came up with crowd sourcing of the attendee note taking during the sessions. https://sites.google.com/a/miramarmike.co.nz/webstock2011/ It was a pleasure to watch the notes magically appear before my eyes, URLs mentioned by the speakers were pasted in and even pictures taken by those closer to the front were inserted. I have to say it worked better than imagined and my grin was from ear-to-ear during the opening session as I turned to jot down a note and it appeared before I had fingers upon keyboard. Favorite Webstock 2011 quotes Before I talk about the Google Docs though I'd like to say thank you to all the @Webstock crew and pick out just a few of my favourite quotes. There are, of course, too many incredible moments to list them all so please take this as a s

And it's been awesome! I love this country ... well, to be honest I love the city of Wellington and even more specifically the suburb of Miramar as it evolves into the best wee spot of land to live in. Happy 6th Citizenship Anniversary to Karen as well! AND, it transpires that Liz and I have been together for 10 whole earth years as well ... my, what a week of celebrations.

And yes, I am specifically talking about Google Sites * that you have been INVITED into ... if you're looking how to hack into a Google Site, good luck! Imagine the scene, you've been invited by another company into a Google site that is restricted in access (ie, not public). Typically you get an email from the person that shares the site with you containing a link to the site which, once clicked, presents you with the company's customised Google Apps login, such as: But hang on, you don't work at this company and therefore you don't have a login ... what's the go? Look below the employee login and you will see the "Sign in with a different account" link: Click on the link to get a box to enter YOUR email address to sign in with and access the company Google Site with the rights given (view or collaborate) Note: if you are already logged in using Google Apps you will not need to enter your password. * Google Sites are part of the Google