Google offers a wide range of products and services including Search, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Chat, Google Wave, Google Buzz, Google Sites, Google Knol, iGoogle, and Google Voice. Many of these services integrate with each other and allow users to access information, communicate, and collaborate both online and offline. Google's suite of products aims to provide users with powerful tools to search, share, organize, and multi-task across the internet and on mobile devices.

1. Google The whole kit and caboodle!

2. Caboodle Origin The words kit and caboodle have rather similar meanings. A kit - is set of objects, as in a toolkit, or what a soldier would put in his kit-bag. A caboodle (or boodle) - is an archaic term meaning group or collection, usually of people.

3. What’s on the menu? Search Gears Chat Calendar Gmail Site Knol iGoogle Wave Talk and so much more……

4. That’s a lot of Google!

5. Search (Tips and Tricks) Try the site: operator to limit the search to a specific site. Example oil site:nytimes.com

6. Search (Tips and Tricks) Use Google as a calculator. Use it as a world clock

7. Search (Tips and Tricks) Currency conversion Area code finder

8. Search (Tips and Tricks) Word definition

9. Search (Tips and Tricks) Flight status

10. Search (Tips and Tricks) ~ Helps you find related terms.

11. Gears formerly Google Gears This is a piece of software that is offered by Google that enable powerful applications and new features to work in your web browser.

12. Gmail Gears allows you to use Gmail while you are offline. You can read mail, label it and compose messages this is all synchronized the next time you connect.

13. Gmail (Get driving directions) If you enter the address into the email a map link will appear in the right hand column.

14. Gmail Tasks You can use Gmail to create a task list.

15. Gmail Tasks

16. Gmail Tasks You can create multiple lists. You can edit details and add notes.

17. Gmail (All work and no play…) You can have some fun and play with themes of your Gmail account. Before

18. Gmail (All work and no play…) How to … 1. Go to settings -> Theme Tab.

19. Gmail (All work and no play…) After.

20. Gmail and labels Label are just folders where you can organize your email massages. Go to settings and pick the labels tab to create a new label.

21. Google calendar Adding public calendar to your personal calendar.

22. Google calendar Before

23. Google calendar After

24. Google calendar (Customize your view) Settings -> General Settings -> Custom View Before After

25. Google calendar shortcuts

26. Google calendar (Show weather on your calendar) Settings -> General -> Show weather based on my location and enter zip code.

27. Google Chat This is Google’s version of and Instant Message Client. Notice that all the chat sessions have been saved.

28. Google Chat Archived conversation

29. Google Chat Why do I love chat? It is a fast way to communicate. You have a record of your conversation and decisions. It is a great way to work collaboratively. One person gets to speak at a time. You can have a meeting anywhere you can make a connection. It saves time.

30. Google Wave What the heck is Google Wave? (Check out the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDu2A3WzQpo) Email was invented 40 years ago. Give or take a year or two. Google asked what would email look like if it was invented today. Wave is a email like tool that brings in all the good things from social software. I love this product almost as much as I love cookies.

31. Google Wave It looks like this.

32. Google Buzz (Built into Gmail and looks like this ) Buzz works as a kind of social media integrator. I am going to add Twitter, Flickr and other stuff.

33. Google Buzz Your Google profile is where you add your other Social Media. Ok so I fiddled with it for 30 minutes and could get it to do anything helpful.

34. Google site (http://sites.google.com/)

35. Google site (http://sites.google.com/) Here you can create a website within minutes. Go to Youtube and search on “Google sites tour” to find this video. It is a great introduction.

36. Google Accounts There are some really helpful tools that use all the time in the accounts section.

37. Google Account Google alerts are emails that are sent to you when Google finds a new search result that match your search term. These could be web pages, blogs, twitter comments. I use them to alert me to what people are saying about the library. This is another great tool that we use to analyze our web traffic.

38. Google Account Google Docs now has Google Draw. It was launched 4/12/2010 You can share and collaborate using Google Draw

39. Google Knol This is a cross between Wikipedia and Squidoo. Google defines a “Knol” as a single unit of knowledge. A knol page can be created by Here are a few ideas for using Google Knol: A few reasons to use Knol Writing about something you are an expert on Sharing your love and knowledge of a hobby Creating your own personal web page all about you Promoting a product or an event Answering a frequently asked question or dispelling an urban myth Making a little extra money by putting advertisements on your Google Knol anyone that has a Google account.

40. Google Knol (htttp://knol.google.com) Looks like this.

41. Google Knol Example

42. iGoogle This service let’s you create your own webpage with all the handy gadgets that can made getting information so much easier. It is simple, just create your own Google account. (http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer=25551)

43. iGoogle (Things that I use everyday) Google Reader (Let’s me subscribe to all the blog I want to read) Google Calendar (Let’s me know what I should be doing) Gmail (Sends me all the alerts and gets me communicate with people outside the organization) BBC News (I can keep current with world) Slashdot and CNET (Keep me current on the Tech front) Chat allows me to work with others. (I am working on an ALA unconference for 2010 with Michelle Boule)

44. iGoogle (Adding stuff)

45. Google voice This is a service that enhances your existing phone service. The number is attach to you. Not your home, your work or your cell. Check out the video ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4Q9MJdT5Ds ) Call you Google number at it can ring on any of your devices and you can listen or read your voicemail from anywhere.

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