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We use both of these features very heavily at Google, so I'm really happy to see them launch externally. The ability to restrict posts to within a company lets
by Matt_Cutts 14y ago
We use both of these features very heavily at Google, so I'm really happy to see them launch externally. The ability to restrict posts to within a company lets you create a corporate social network very easily (think Yammer, Chatter, etc.). One of the main complaints I hear about Google+ is that specific friends aren't on it, but that's much less of an issue if your company uses Google Apps. I spend a lot of time and get a lot of value out of within-our-company Google+ posts.
And since Google has widely distributed offices, I can't tell you how many video meetings I've attended, but it's a lot. Having the ability to join a video conference/hangout from a link in Calendar makes such meetings really easy to set up.
- lt 14y agoWhat about Hangouts on Air private to your company? That would be really useful.
- Matt_Cutts 14y agoFor the most part, we use video hangouts for smaller meetings, but that's an interesting suggestion: I could see private Hangouts on Air being useful for company-wide meetings. I don't know exactly what the team has planned though.
- VikingCoder 14y agoIf Wave had gotten this feature, I would have used it for all of my corporate documents.
- jeffjose 14y agoGoogle Docs (now called Drive documents) work just fine and I think is actually a product of rectifying the mistakes they made with Wave.
- danmaz74 14y agoHow easy is it to reshare a "company" post to the wrong people?
- Matt_Cutts 14y agoFrom the post: "Restricted posts are private to your organization and can never be re-shared with anyone outside." Now if you do a corporate G+ post and say "Bob in accounting sucks" and then share that with Bob--that's on you. :)
- danmaz74 14y agoThanks; so, you would need to copy and paste it to share it. I don't know why, but psychologically I would feel like this is somehow less private than, say, a mailing list. I'm probably becoming old :)
- blinks 14y ago> I don't know why, but psychologically I would feel like this is somehow less private than, say, a mailing list. I'm probably becoming old :) I think that's a really interesting comment! Perhaps it's because the UX is more social network-y (FB/Twitter), which are historically public, and less email-y+historically private?
- danmaz74 14y agoThat's possible, but a more likely reference is forums. The ones I used were mostly public too :)
- xxpor 14y agoAsk Steve Yegge.
- BvS 14y agoI was first very exited about those possibilities but if I get it right I have to basically give up / merge my personal G+ Account unless I want to have 2 account with the same name on G+. If I do so the Apps-admin will have full control over my account including reading my private messages, deleting my account... right? Besides trust issues I wonder what would happen if I leave the company? How do you handle this at Google?
- endtime 14y agoYou just have two accounts. But you have that anyway if your company using is Google Apps. I think the assumption that people have a work email and a personal email is generally pretty reasonable.
- BvS 14y agoSounds reasonable indeed. Nevertheless a little confusing since both my profiles would be at least partially public. What's your experience at Google? Do all off you habe 2 accounts and if so, don't you have problems making sure that your not work related friends etc. don connect with the wrong profile?
- endtime 14y agoAny employee who uses Gmail personally has two accounts, yes (I actually have four - personal, .edu, my pre-Google startup, and Google). No one outside the corp environment can see my corp account. From my corp account, I can't find my personal account by searching. If I go directly to my personal profile page and try to circle my personal account from my corp account, I get an error "due to domain restriction". So I guess the short version is no, what you are concerned about won't happen.
- teamlaft 14y agoHey Matt - I'm the founder/organizer of the NY Enterprise Technology Meetup, the first monthly tech forum in NYC exclusively focused on enterprise tech company demos. Are you able to connect me with someone from the team so that I can inquire about them demoing at a future event? We launched in January of this year, have almost 1,000 members, and get about 125 attendees to each events (mix of technologists, entrepreneurs, investors, and students). Check us out at www.meetup.com/ny-enterprise-tech and www.nyetm.com. Thanks!
- Matt_Cutts 14y agoNot sure, but let me ask around.
- johansch 14y agoIs there a way to make sure that the default mode for new posts from corporate accounts is "restricted"? Otherwise the risk for accidental spillover just seems too high...
- timothya 14y agoYes. I just looked in the admin settings for Google Apps and it gives the option to default it to restricted posts.
- johansch 14y agoNeat. Then this might actually be useful in real life :).
- johansch 14y agoI should have been more specific, sorry: Is this a per company default setting? Can company admins set the defaults for all company users? Or is it an individual user setting?
- timothya 14y agoIt's an admin setting, the default for all users.