Google Workspacers

Aydin Mirzaee, CEO and Co-Founder of Fellow.app, is passionate about productivity and helping companies become more profitable. He is the Director at Fresh Founders and the Founder of Fluidware (acquired by SurveyMonkey). Aydin also hosts a podcast called Supermanagers, featuring interviews with leaders who discuss the behaviors that help them excel at the fine art of management. Highlights: Gmail was Aydin's first Google product because it offered storage not available from other email solutions. He talks about the benefits of using Gmail for his own domain when he started his company. Aydin shares how Fellow.app has been using Google Workspace since day one, and how he considers Google Workspace tools like oxygen for a company - alongside incorporation and a bank account. Aydin reveals how Google Calendar makes it easy for his team to book meetings with one another and makes smart suggestions for meeting times. Aydin and Christian observe that people are meeting more frequently to compensate for the lack of a physical workspace, and how it’s more important than ever to ensure these meetings are successful. They discuss in detail how Fellow.app and Google Workspace help by ensuring that meetings are well planned and executed. Aydin and Christian go through some Gmail and Google Workspace tips, tricks, and hacks that will help you get more done with less effort. Links: Show Notes Aydin Mirzaee on LinkedIn Aydin Mirzaee on Twitter Fellow.app Supermanagers Podcast whats.new Christian Newman on LinkedIn risedigital.tech/podcast

“Technology is wonderful, but at the end of the day, we really just want it to get out of the way, give us what we need and a wonderful productive work experience.” Westland Real Estate Group CIO, Jesse Nowlin, has been passionately involved in IT since he was fixing computers at fifteen years of age. Jesse's built networks and managed systems all over the world, including for the Israel Defense Forces. He oversees technology for over 500 employees in 100 locations at Westland Real Estate and has managed to keep the business on the cutting edge of digital transformation while also founding tabGeeks - a content network for people who work in IT. Highlights: Jesse describes what it was like to set up the workforce for remote working when no one had ever done so before. He emphasizes how having Google Workspace helped them thrive. Jesse shares real-world business problems Google Workspace helped him solve - like going from 27 servers down to 6! Alternatives business communication and collaboration services and how Jesse chose Google Workspace. Jesse points to the incredible growth in the collaborative tech sector that occurred during lockdown as a foreshadowing of the incredible cloud computing developments that are yet to come, especially in Google Workspace. How Google Workspace and the shift toward remote working affected IT professionals, and how he’s now brought into every major company decision due to the fact that everything relies on technology. Jesse talks about the benefits of going slow and tackling one problem at a time can help win buy-in and adoption of new technologies. Context-aware technology and how we’re already seeing its potential to provide what you need, when you need it, without having to ask. How Jesse’s creating an IT content network to pull together the explosion of publications connecting people in the IT community. Jesse opens his Google Workspace toolkit and shares some of his favourite tips, tricks and add-ons and MUCH MORE! Links: Show Notes Westland Real Estate Group Jesse Nowlin on LinkedIn Jesse Nowlin on Twitter Jesse Nowlin on Clubhouse Google Workspace Recap Podcast Supporting IT Support Podcast Tabgeeks MacAdmins Community The Great Suspender Chrome extension's fall from grace Loom Calendly Google Workspace Marketplace Google Tasks for iPhone Google Apps Manager (GAM) Google Workspace for Education announcement Christian Newman on LinkedIn Google Workspacers Podcast

“If you’re running two systems, you’re running that second system for the lowest common denominator - the people who are slow to change… I don’t make a lot of time for the lowest common denominator - I just go for it.” Based in Surrey, British Columbia, A & A Customs Brokers makes borders disappear for importers and exporters. In this episode, Graham Robins shares how he juggles being CEO, a podcast host, computer nerd, lifelong learner, YPO participant, father of four, wake surfer, and car enthusiast - and how he dove head-in with Google Workspace to help focus resources on adding value for customers. Highlights: Instead of fighting half of the war against complex and clunky technology that appears to be more of a challenge than anything else, A&A’s employees will concentrate on connecting with their customers. Christian and Graham talk about the importance of IT departments and how Google Workspace helps scale down and streamline the technical needs and processes of a company to make them more effective. Graham discusses his early Google Workspace experiences, including how Gmail was one of the first Google apps that opened his eyes to the Google ecosystem's potential and convinced him to make the switch over. The two talk about how much technology has progressed in the last few decades and what is yet to come. Graham addresses the difficulties of retaining old systems when attempting to implement Google Workspace. He concentrates in particular on the resistance that will be faced from within the organization and how to cope with it in order to get people to unite behind and commit to the transition. Time-blocking is a technique used by many people to manage their time and become more productive. Graham outlines a couple productive hacks that he uses Google Workspaces for and how they benefit his life. Graham opens his Google Workspace toolkit and shares some of his favourite tips, tricks and add-ons. and MUCH MORE! Links: Show Notes The Graham Robins Podcast (Apple Podcasts) A & A Customs Brokers ChromeOS Rewatch Graham Robins on LinkedIn Christian Newman on LinkedIn

"The concept or idea of having a live Google Doc transcribe the meeting in different languages as it's going on, which you can edit and mark-up in real time - that's just absolutely mind-blowing." - Rowan Manson Hundreds of enterprises and organizations have benefited from Rowan's help integrating Google Workspace. He relocated from Scotland to Canada in early December to lead SADA's North American sales effort. In this episode, we talk about his excitement for Workspace and the tremendous transformational power it can have on an organization's operations and culture. Highlights: Rowan and Christian explore Workspace's ability to bring people from all over the world together to optimize their potential and productivity. How technology, if it’s too difficult to navigate, can become a barrier, and how Google Workspace overcomes these obstacles by being intuitive and simple to use. A dive deep into Google Chat and what collaboration and contextual awareness features they expect to see in 2021. A discussion on the productivity and inclusiveness potential of Google Meet translation and transcription features. Google has a track record of resolving issues by offering resources that users need and want. Rowan and Christian talk about some of their favourite examples from Google Workspace, as well as some upcoming changes to the platform. How privacy and trust are becoming increasingly hot topics, and Google Workspace security and compliance possibilities in 2021. AI integration and its broader position in Google Workspace, including what it does now, what it will do in the future, and its relative benefits and disadvantages. Rowan opens his Google Workspace toolkit and shares some of his favourite tips, tricks and add-ons. Links: Boomerang Google Jamboard Happeo SADA Rowan Manson on LinkedIn Christian Newman on LinkedIn Google Workspacers Podcast

“When I think about Google Workspace... I would say that it's something that helps people connect and work together easier, most importantly, it helps people work more smartly together” - Amit Sharma Amit is a Senior Leader that has gained valuable experiences over the past 18 years in the field of Information Technology (IT). He has led diverse and complex functions for large enterprises where it was and continues to be his passion to provide value to my customers through the use of technology, customer service, process improvement and tools. Amit is currently Director of Team Member Technology Services at TELUS. Highlights How Amit enables people to work more efficiently at TELUS. How technology and cultural norms have transformed at TELUS. How Amit engaged internal business partners to decide that Google Workspace was the right solution for their business and their people. How starting with WHY helped Amit measure and win buy-in for the Google Workspace transformation at TELUS. How Amit drove change by changing norms and addressing use cases one at a time. How engaging allies and celebrating successes helped Amit manage change and drive Google Workspace adoption and transformation. The one thing that Amit wants other companies to learn from the Google Workspace transformation at TELUS. How the rapid pace of Google Workspace development brings both opportunities and challenges at TELUS. How Google Meet helps TELUS run 60-65,000 meetings per week. What Amit’s most excited about with Google Workspace at TELUS. What’s in Amit’s Google Workspace toolkit. and MUCH MORE! Links Show Notes TELUS Workstyles Connect with Amit on LinkedIn Follow Amit on Twitter Connect with Christian Newman on Linkedin