Strengthen organizational communication with new Space manager’s capabilities available in Chat Space.   Google Chat is a great tool for collaboration and communication among teams. It provides an effective way to collaborate on projects, brainstorm ideas, share files, assign tasks or stay connected with your team members. Early 2023, Google enabled new abilities for Chat Space’s managers, now they can customize selection on new features from “Space Settings” which include:   – Member Management: With this new feature, Space managers are able to control whether members can add or remove other members or groups from Space or not. – Space Configuration: Space managers can determine whether members can modify Space details, such as name, icon, description, and guidelines. They

  Response validation on Google Form enables you to collect efficient feedback, and get appropriate answers.   When you collect customers’ feedback by Google Form, have you ever felt a headache on any answers that you didn’t expect? For example, a reply with a phone number instead of an email? Or you just wanted a short explanation but the respondents answered too long messages? If you feel displeased, why won’t you try “Response validation”?   With this feature, you can create rules that people have to follow when they fill the forms you sent. In other words, it will force them to answer questions based on your requirements. There are three types of questions allowed to use response validation in

  Stay connected more easily with the latest layout; in-line threads conversation for the new Spaces created in Google Chat.   Google Chat Space is the central place to communicate with a group of people or an organization about a topic, project, or shared interest. You can create a Space to discuss, share files, assign tasks, and stay connected within the same location. However, if you become a member of several Chat Spaces, it will be difficult to define which messages you should respond to. Especially, when there are plenty of chat conversations, causing you to fail to notice important topics.   Google realizes the situation. In October 2022, they announced an “in-line threads” feature in Chat Space to maximize

  Updated smart canvas features on Google Docs and Sheets boost your work productivity.   Google has launched smart canvas since May 2021, a collection of collaborative tools making your work experience more flexible and helpful. It provides the effectiveness of teams’ communication and collaboration, increasing more creativity and work performance.   Along with smart canvas, smart chips would be one of most useful features, and gain good feedback from many users. The interactive hyperlinks chips enhance team’s collaboration. It can show more related information, and connect you to other users, files, or calendar events etc… Recently, Google just enabled the latest features to smart chips for Google Sheets and Docs, including, “place chips”, “finance chips”, “@date capability” for Sheets,

  No more confusion on switching screens, presenters can now view a presentation with speaker notes in Google Meet.   Speaker notes are important tools for any presenters, they will help remember important issues, such as key messages, statistics, or referred example cases. They act like a memory aid to remind presenters what to talk about on each of the slides, and what are the next topics of their presentation.   Formerly, when users present slides from their Google Meet, they have to switch screens between notes and slides. It might be inconvenient and sometimes causes misunderstanding as they are unsure which one is the presenting screen to the audience. Or even it might cause them to lose concentration while

  Emojis, fun way to express your reactions in Google Meet.   Google has created more functions for Google Meet over the past few years to minimize the gap between people who work in different places. Many new features are released to improve users’ experience continually; for example, automatic lighting adjustments, noise reduction, picture-in-picture mode, multi pinning or live captions. Recently, they just launched emoji reactions for users’ quick responses during meetings.   *The above picture shows emoji reactions on web.  Source: Google Workspace Updates   You can start using these fun emojis by clicking the “smile” icon in the toolbar. It will pop up the reaction bar with all available emojis for you to choose as per preference. Everyone

  Google enabling new function conversation summary in Chat Space, helps people to avoid information overload   Google has been constantly researching AI-powered innovations to help people work more productively and impactful. In the past few years, the company has been creating machine learning tools in Google Workspace for example scheduling meetings, search & suggestion in Chat and Gmail, automated summary in Google Docs which is able to generate an overview of text within a document. Currently, this function is extended and available to Chat Space providing users a helpful digest of conversations.   Nowadays, when we have to deal with multi-tasks, and get across too many groups of Chat or Space. Sometimes, it might be difficult to check and

  Foster teams’ collaboration and well monitor the entire project by Timeline View on spreadsheet.   Google extends the power of Smart Canvas; collaboration tools allowing people to stay connected, promote teams’ cooperation. Along with the Smart Canvas, the company constantly innovates collaboration experience, and always tries to collapse the boundary between people and applications.   This year, Google has some developments on new functions and features in spreadsheets, for instance smart chips, joining the meeting directly from Sheet, or getting notification when someone is editing your spreadsheet. Now it enables “Timeline View” which is suitable for tasks, project management and any future plans among teams.   Source: Google Workspace Update The timeline view in Google Sheet enhances people to

  Improve your search experience by the latest features in Google Chat and Gmail.   Google is a considerable expertise on search engines. It has been well-known and impactful for many users across the world and holds 92% of the worldwide search engine market share*. The company has constantly broadened the search experience for applications and services. Recently, there are many new search-related additions added to Gmail and Chat on web and mobile; including search suggestions, Gmail labels, and related results.   *Source: Search Engine Market Share Worldwide(Nov 2021 – Nov 2022) | StatCounter   Google Chat users on mobile start seeing “search suggestions” in the search bar when they type the query in the search box. The suggestion will