Tech For Work by TABGEEKS

10,000 Downloads, we did it! We have officially passed 10,000 downloads this year since the start of the podcast in January!! Thank you to all our loyal listeners, we appreciate you. We started this just as a fun project to help ourselves and the community keep up with Google Workspace Updates, and now 50 episodes later as we finish up the year I am so grateful for how we have grown! We love heari...

Another short episode as Google only pushed out one update this week, at least next week is already up to 2 and counting.  If you want to receive our show notes and other news in your inbox, please sign up for our weekly newsletter at tabgeeks.com/newsletter Join the conversation in our Slack community at tabgeeks.com/slack Published Releases There were 8 planned this week and only 1 made it...

It seems the Google Workspace Dev team took a well-deserved break this week as we discovered when we started preparing for this episode, there were no official published releases this week. We dug up some other releases for you and of course relevant Google news of the week. If you want to receive our show notes and other news in your inbox, please sign up for our weekly newsletter at tabgeeks.com...

Solid updates this week heading into the holiday weekend. No guest on today's show, but more being scheduled.  I've been hard at work the past couple of weeks getting things spun up for the expansion of this show and Supporting IT Support into video, as well as launching the newsletter and blog posts! If you want to continue talking about Google Workspace and other IT Admin topics, I invite y...

We have a fantastic episode today, we interviewed a Google Workspace account manager and grilled him on all the responsibilities of an account manager, as well as what tips and tricks we should know about when working with other account managers at Google. As we often do, we digressed a bit into Google Voice, AppSheets, and the impending migrations from GSuite to Google Workspace..... time is runn...

Last week I alluded to some major news happening and I always try to deliver on my teasers so here you go. Paying attention?  Effective today I will be working exclusively on the tabGeeks Network for about 30 hours a week! This is a huge step forward as in the past this has always been a night's and weekend's project, and now with the incredible traction we have received on both this podcast...

We welcome two amazing members from the DevRel (Developer Releations) team this episode.  Charles Maxson is a Developer Advocate at Google where focuses on inspiring developers of all types to build solutions that leverage Google Workspace as a platform.  Steve Bazyl is a Developer Relations Engineer and Advocate at Google and has worked with various Google Workspace APIs and partners fo...

Good to be back on our regular schedule at our regular setups bringing you the latest Google Workspace news. Now that Next is behind us, Google continues coming out swinging with 10 updates this week. Enjoy! Silent Releases Drive for desktop support for Apple silicon (M1) devices now generally available Published Releases View more information about your colleagues and stakeholders in Google Conta...

Whew! We made it through Google Next once again. Another year is done, and another year Google Workspace didn't get it's own show. Perhaps one day, but for now we will fight GCP for the limelight. We hope you enjoyed our coverage of Google Cloud Next, and look forward to hopefully doing it again next year, this time from the show floor in person!  Next Releases Introducing Google Cloud Innova...

Welcome to day 2 of our Google Cloud NEXT coverage. Yesterday was the big Workspace session day, but we still had plenty to talk about. Join us for great discussions around BeyondCorp Enterprise, Google NEXT so far, Partner experiences and programs, as well as where we see Google going with Partners in GCP and Workspace. We have one more day to go, enjoy and see you tomorrow! Topics Partner Overvi...

Welcome to Day One at Google Cloud Next! Google of course had some big announcements on the cloud side of things and reannounced some of the topics we have covered before, as well as some new Betas and features. Join us and special guest Brian Kim as we recap day one of Google Next. Stay tuned for tomorrow's episode with another guest and more conversation about everything Google Workspace! &...

Google Cloud Next is LIVE! First Keynote starts in 9 hours from when I publish this episode, but the Partner Insight videos are available now! We will be releasing daily episodes for the next few days as we do our best to cover all the updates from Google Next. Keep it locked here on Google Workspace Recap for insights from some incredible special guests discussing all of the news coming from Goog...

T Minus just one week until Google Next! Stay tuned to your favorite source for Google Workspace news as we gear up to bring you daily episodes during the conference. This week, leading up to the show, in addition to a slew of updates, we brought on a guest to discuss the recent Chrome for Enterprise announcements. Please welcome Sue Fernand from 8x8!  Sue Fernand is the Director of Alliances...

We are now at week 39 of 2021 for those of you who are still stuck in March of 2020, and as the podcast grows so have our platforms, if you happen to be one of the millions of Amazon Music subscribers you can now listen to our podcast and Supporting IT Support on Amazon Music! Published Releases Upgrade to the newest version of the Google Chat app Improved visibility in Google Meet on web Control...

Short episode with only 5 updates to Google Workspace this week. If you have not already, go and register for Google Next, Google’s Cloud and Workspace conference. The session info is now live, and you can go in and create your playlist. They are fully virtual again this year, although I am hearing about some solo events in the works so maybe we will announce some of those shortly if you want to m...

An excellent episode this week with a special Google Guest GTM Strategy David Rosenthal! David goes deep into the details around the latest launch of the new Google Meet hardware, as well as some behind-the-scenes stories and insights into how Google develops its hardware and services. Enjoy and let us know what you think! Published Releases Google Chat ‘Rooms’ are now ‘Spaces’ Coming soon: new Go...

Another shoutout to another great group of tech folks on the ground in Louisiana, the Footprint Project is providing solar power and batteries to police stations, local government, locals, and other relief orgs all helping with Ida relief. Take a look at their amazing work at footprintproject.org . This is not a sponsored post, nor was the last one, just trying to get the word out about some of ou...

We are concerned for our friends and listeners getting hit by Hurricane Ida. If anyone in tech wants to help, our friends over at the ITDRC (Internet Technology Disaster Resource Center) are already en route and deploying to provide communications support to assist all the relief groups as well as allow those affected to contact their families. ITDRC is nonprofit, and is an incredible group of peo...

Spent a bit of time at the beginning of this episode discussing job hunting and our experiences with different companies' application and interview processes. As I go through the process of finding a new position, I am documenting my experiences on Twitter and Linkedin to help others as much as possible. Follow along and let me know if you have any questions/suggestions! Silent Releases Block shar...

Shortest episode we have ever done! Short week at Google, and I am on vacation, so not a whole lot of schmoozing either. Back to normal next week! Silent Releases New Categories in Google Workspace Marketplace Updated emoji experience in Google Chat on iOS Published Releases Reminder: Google Meet support for IE11 ending August 17, 2021 Easily switch between lists in Google Tasks on mobile Add up t...

This week started strong with a few releases on Monday and one on Tuesday, then that was it. Short episode this week, but we are working on getting some more guests to come on soon to fill in when we have short weeks like these. Enjoy! Published Releases Smart Compose now available in comments for Google Slides, Sheets, and Drawings Directly open Office editing from shared links Updated emoji expe...

Google adds another PWA to its arsenal, introducing Google Meet PWA! Course, as far as we can tell it's the same as the web version, just in a PWA. I really wanted to see them add the sidebar, but maybe that is still coming. We are going to look for someone at Google to be a guest on the show and explain the advantages of a PWA other than a nice icon on your Dock/Taskbar. Stay tuned!  Silent...

In case you missed it, Google Cloud Next registration is open! We forgot to mention it in the episode, but you can register now. Sadly, it will be a virtual event again just like last year, and we wish we could see you all in person. Maybe we can work on some kind of an in-person update of our own. Stay tuned!  If you are interested in subscribing to our weekly updates newsletter (coming soon...

Back to our normal schedule of updates, releases, and analyses by Jesse and Steve. Also, we are working on spinning up our weekly tech news newsletter, if you are interested in subscribing go to workspacerecap.com/newsletter and fill out the form!  Published Releases Backup and Sync users should begin transitioning to Drive for desktop Improving email security with BIMI Slash commands and dia...

Shorter week, shorter episode. Google released only 2 updates this week with 2 little ones tacked on for good measure.  Apologies for not getting this episode out sooner, it's just been one of those weeks.  Enjoy! Published Releases Indicate whether you’ll join a meeting virtually or in person on Google Calendar Scheduled refresh improvements for Connected Sheets now generally avail...