Google Drive Recommendation

As per your inquiry into the tech tool Google Drive, I have spent the last few weeks trying out different functionalities within the tool to see how feasible it would be to implement within our group. While we currently use our shared drives on the company’s network, we are well aware of the connectivity issues we run into when the servers are down or when we cannot connect wireless from home or even in the office. Google Drive would be a nice alternative to storing things on our hard drive and would be similar a virtual “thumb drive”.  Right now Google will house 15GB for free across Google Drive,  Google+ photos, and Gmail.  Due to the large size of our PowerPoint and picture files, I do not see this being a sustainable model for even past 6-9 months as our only source to house our data. It will work as a great back up for our group. 

Google Drive currently has a shared and editable version of word, excel, and powerpoint. The ability to multi-edit in a cloud function is one of the key nice features of Google Drive. Recently some of our clients have sent some of their reports to us via Google Drive as a way to not clog up our email space, which indicates that more businesses will be moving to more cloud technology applications in the future. 

For the time being, I recommend using Google Drive for some of our basic functions like excel budgets, standard marketing templates, and basic contact data to get a feel for using Google Drive on a daily basis. Let's regroup in 3 months to align on how we want to incorporate and implement Google Drive in the future.

Initial Thoughts

Often I have found myself spending hours on other peoples social media footprint through their blogs, pictures on Instagram, collages and wish lists of Pinterest, career moves on Linkedin, and daily random updates on Facebook. I will not endeavor to walk down the path of Twitter and Tumblr, but I have at least committed to making Google+, Bloglovin as my blog aggregator, Pinterest, and LinkedIn as my key social media tools. Wow, that seems like an awful lot to follow and still have a "normal" life of non addictive social media interaction. However, the days of just knowing your friends status updates are over. Now are the days of transparency of businesses through status feeds and thought provoking speeches on TED. 

To stay current on just about all things can be a part time or even a full time job for some. You could be on either side of the coin. You can be the subject matter expert on all current events and people respect you. Or you can be the person who doesn't bother with social media because your out living and experiencing the non virtual world. I hope that I am a bit of both.

Who doesn't like to document their life especially with all the new and easy ways to do so. My fear is who are you documenting it for...yourself or for the public you do not know.