Some Businesses Should Delete Google+ Local Page

Useful to know--

Service Area Business with a verified social local Google+ page? - Google Groups: "Are you a Service Area Business (SAB) that has created and verified/merged a social local Google+ page for your business? . . . If you do not accept customers at your location, then your address should be hidden. At this time, Google+ currently does not support hidden addresses. You should delete your social local Google+ page from within Google+ (Click on Pages on the ribbon on the left, go to the Settings of your page, and scroll to the bottom and click Delete page). Don’t worry! You can still manage your business’ presence on Google. Here’s how:
If you’re a verified business owner in Google Places for Business...
Manage the listing via the Google Places for Business dashboard. Be sure to hide your address.
If not, but a listing for your business exists...
Find the listing for your business and become a verified business owner by clicking on Manage this page on the right-hand side. 
Then, manage the page via the Google Places for Business dashboard
If no listing for your business exists...
Add it on Google Places for Business: places.google.com/local/add
We’ll share updates with you on this thread when we have them."


Forum discussion at Google Local Help.






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Using Google Sites to Manage your next project

Great article in Tech Republic about using Google Sites for projects (excerpt below):

Manage your next project with Google Sites | TechRepublic: "You can use Google Apps to track and manage your “next action” lists and reference material in various forms:
Manage task list and budgets with Sheets,
Manage timelines with Calendars, and
Track meeting minutes and decisions with Docs.

 A Google Site lets you add context to your lists and reference materials at a dedicated project website. Your Site can give an overview of the project, including the timeline, budget and people involved. And you can even discuss all of these items on a Site discussion forum.

 Most importantly, you can share access to the project Site with other people. Your project site can be public for the world to see, or restricted to specific people. Be sure to allow time in your workflow to configure the site, and make sure your collaborators can access the Site.

 Here’s how to create a basic Google Site for a project using a template:

 1. Login to Google Apps, and then click “Sites” in the black menu bar at the top of the screen.

 2. Click the “Create” button. (The “Create” button is in nearly the same location on the screen as the “Compose” button within Gmail.)

 3. You can either customize your own site format, or use a template. I suggest you use a template (Figure A) for your first site. . . . "  Read more here







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Google Search from outside the US

Searching from outside the US--

Google search outside the US - Google Groups: "If you search from google.co.uk, the initial results pages will default to global. There might appear to be a preponderance of US content, but this probably reflects the volume of US content on the global web, rather than any bias on Google's part.. . . don't forget that ".com" domain names can be registered in any country, so the presence of .com results doesn't necessarily indicate US content. In fact, any bias in the search algorithm would take into account your location, either as detected by Google from your IP address, or as recorded by you in Search Settings. If you want to exclude global content, you have the option to filter only "Pages from the UK". . . . it would be nice to set local results as default from the search home page. However, there are a couple of workarounds which might help. Once you have performed a search from google.co.uk and selected "Pages from the UK", bookmark the results page and then always search from there rather than from the search home page. Alternatively, bookmark https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?hl=en&cr=countryUK|countryGB for your searching."





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Google Play to distribute internal Android apps

Official Google Enterprise Blog: A new way to distribute your internal Android apps: "The Google Play Store is the place to find Android apps like the Google+ app, the Google Drive app and hundreds of thousands more. Today we’re expanding the Google Play Store for our Google Apps customers to help you distribute internal apps to your employees through the Google Play Private Channel. Whether you’ve built a custom expense reporting app for employees or a conference room finder, the Google Play Private Channel is designed to make your organization’s internal apps quick and easy for employees to find. Once your company has loaded these internal apps using the Google Play Developer Console, users just need to log in with their company email address to browse the Private Channel and download apps . . ."








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