OTEDU Podcast

Hello, and welcome to episode four of the Office Tech EDU Podcast, bringing you technology tips, tricks, and tutorials in bite-size pieces today for you to use at your desk tomorrow. My name’s Beth Heyden and I thank you for joining me. In today’s episode, we’re going to talk about how to search smarter in Google. There’s way more to searching in Google than typing in a few keywords and hoping for the best, although that’s what many of us do on a regular basis. This usually ends up in you having to weed through them to see if that’s what you were hoping for. It can be overwhelming to know that you have several pages to search through to find the one item that you might actually want. Let’s get started.  When searching within the Google browser, you know what keywords you’re looking for, and what outcome you’d like to get, but how do you get the best results for your search.  “ “ Putting quotes around a word, or phrase will produce exact matches.  And/Or usi...

Welcome, and thank you for listening to the third episode of the Office Tech EDU podcast!  Hosted by me: Beth Heyden, CEOE and Certified Google Trainer If you haven't yet listened to the podcast but would like to, you can find it here and select S01E03.  In today's episode, I talked about how to properly share and collaborate within a Google application.  Share Settings:   When you click on the share button you can enter in individual names from your contacts or email addresses. Group them so that all those with Edit rights together then click on share. If you then wish to share with others who should only view it, repeat the same steps and change the option to view only. Do the same thing for comments.  Bonus: If you're part of a Google Enterprise (formerly Google for Work), Google for Education, or Google for Non-profit you can time out a collaborator by setting an expiration date. To do this, go back into the shared settings, click on the n...