I wrote about using Google’s tools for business several weeks ago, and it’s a subject I definitely want to touch on again. I think Google Apps are fabulous for small business, the best part is they’re free! You have a whole suite of tools at your disposal that you don’t even have to pay for.

Here are a few small businesses talking about how they use Google Apps to help them run their businesses.
What makes Google apps great for small business is the ability to access them from any computer. If you have a spreadsheet in Google Documents you can access …read more

Google’s are free – MS’s aren’t, and that ought to say a lot :)
Thank you to Elinor Mills at the News Blog;
Gadgets comes to Google Docs
Google on Wednesday unveiled Gadgets for Spreadsheets in Google Docs, allowing people to create graphical representations of data in spreadsheets and publish them on Web sites.

[Google Docs lets you turn your data into a Motion Chart in a spreadsheet via a Google Gadget. (Credit: Google)]
For consumers, this means they have a dozen or so new ways to look at data in their spreadsheets. Google has put up a gallery of specialty gadgets to choose from. …read more

Putting those three words in the same sentence ought to earn you… a night in purgatory or something similar. That is almost the same as putting “Scott Cleland” “Net Neutrality” and “Truth” together.
From “In State of the Union, Bush to begin framing legacy”
“After all, few people still are looking to Bush for political leadership, says George Edwards III, a presidential scholar at Texas A&M University. Only about one-third of the country approves of his job performance. A majority of Americans believe that beginning the war in Iraq was a mistake, according to many polls. Many voters have tuned out the …read more