Google Chat is Catching Up To Slack with New Features including Announcement Only Rooms

Google Workspace Recap

A monster episode this week with updates to Chat, Cloud Search, Sites, Access Approvals, Classroom, Drive, and more.

Over Passover, I was offline a lot and had the chance to catch up on some reading and I absolutely tore through Losing the Signal which is the story of the epic rise and eventual fall of Blackberry. They changed how we communicate and not only got completely blindsided by Apple and then Google, they completely refused to believe this is the future people would want. Now I loved my Crackberrys and had many different models over the years including the touch screen Storm Slider, and the design was getting better but the OS was just trash at that point. This book goes behind the scenes and now I know why. They are releasing a new movie based on this book called Blackberry and if you are anything like me, I recommend reading the book and seeing the movie. It releases May 12th. Blackberry Trailer: https://youtu.be/cXL_HDzBQsM #notsponsored

Click here to learn all about the Google ChromeOS Administrator Certification and how to pass it: https://youtu.be/KHPy_n0qVk8

🥳 Don’t miss our SaaS focused show SaaS Showdown! We just released Season 3 Episode 4 #SaaS and Cloud Security Posture Management with Special Guest Chris Walker: https://youtu.be/7y1UO-t-_Ys

Silent Releases

• Reminder: Google Calendar and Assistant Reminders will migrate to Google Tasks soon

Published Releases

1. Improve search results with Personalization Boost and Click Boost for Cloud Search

2. Enabling organizational communication with announcements in Google Chat

3. Introducing new collaboration and flexibility features for Google Sites

4. Fine tune access to data with additional options for Access Approvals

5. Practice sets in Google Classroom are now generally available

6. Streamlined file organization with the new Google Drive location picker

7. New community features for Google Chat and an update on Currents

8. Set default label values for files in Google Drive

9. Communicate better with a modernized Google Chat

Other Topics

1. Google Bard gets “Experiment Updates’ changelog

2. Google Chat is getting a new look to match Docs, Sheets and Gmail

1. Google Chat rolling out Material You web redesign

3. Katie Couric hosts Future Ready by Think with Google

4. The Software Supply Chain Song (I’m Goin’ To Production)

5. GCC: Google Chat User Love Survey

1. https://www.techvalidate.com/registration/Chat-User-Love-Survey

6. CTL Launches next gen Chromebox CBX3 with a 13th Gen Intel Core i7

7. Google Chrome Emergency Update fixes first zero day of 2023

8. Nation State Actors are Taking Advantage of Weak Passwords to Go After Cloud Customers Google Says

9. Report: AI is coming soon to Google Search with “Magi” as Samsung considers Bing Default

1. https://www.engadget.com/google-is-reportedly-developing-a-new-ai-powered-search-engine-191648736.html

2. https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/17/23686108/google-ai-search-tools-magi-chatgpt-bing-samsung-deal

10. 60 Minutes: The AI Revolution: Google’s developers on the future of artificial intelligence

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