Small Business Tech Tips

Here at Everon, we use Google Docs a lot. It’s an excellent tool for small businesses. By providing an easy way for team members in different locations to collaborate on documents, it has become a dominant force in the world of small business productivity.

But Google’s not resting on its laurels.

This week, they rolled out a new interface for Google Docs, which promises to allow even more small businesses to do away with Microsoft Office and go straight to the web for team collaboration. As Fast Company points out, it’s faster, allows inline comments, and lets you collaborate in real-time with other team members thanks to its live-editing functionality.

But our favorite part is the new Drawing feature. With it, you can finally ditch your whiteboard and collaborate in real-time on the web.

To access Drawing from Google Docs, just click on “Create New” and choose “Drawing” as the document type. It’s as simple as that. You now have access to a powerful tool that will allow you to create images and flow charts, similar to Visio.

(Image Courtesy of Shaun Ahern, our resident Picasso)

Oh yeah. We’re going to get a lot of use out of this one.

You may not be able to ditch your desktop productivity software just yet, but the new Google Docs Drawing feature takes that idea one step closer to reality.

For more info on all the new Google Docs features, check out the Google Blog here.

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