Google’s web-based messaging and collaboration apps require no hardware or software and need minimal administration, creating tremendous time and cost savings for businesses. using Google Apps, you could set up a bunch of users who get Gmail, GCal, a personalized start page, and chat all with usernames like admin@yoruwebsite.org, dude@yoruwebsite.org. Your users would log in to a Google hosted control panel (which you can customize with a yoruwebsite.org logo), and all their email would get sent with their custom domain email as the From: address.

Patrick Kajirian graduated with honors from the University of Kent in Canterbury, England with a Bachelors Degree in Multimedia Technology and Design. As a freelance production artist, Patrick worked on a broad range of projects from designing interactive rich media websites for businesses to producing infomercials for cable television broadcasting.

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