Google Voice What Gmail is to email, Google Voice is to phone calls. Voice allows you to combine multi- ple phone numbers into one, transcribe voice mail into text and much more. Calls inside the U.S. are free and come with a free telephone number.


Cost: FREE for local and domestic calls, competitive prices for international calls


Google+ The newest Google product, Google+, is a social network which aims to integrate the Web. Google thinks content and people can be combined into one network. Google+ works a lot like Facebook where you can have a personal profile and a business page.


Cost: FREE


YouTube Google purchased YouTube in 2006 and has since worked to integrate YouTube into its family of products. YouTube is simply a video website where anyone can upload video or create a video channel.


Cost: FREE


Google Maps / Earth Fly as the crow flies with Google Maps, a mapping and satellite im- aging tool. See what a street looks like from over a mile high or at street level. At a minimum, Google Maps is excellent for directions and figuring out a route to host multiple showings. Google Earth is a download with enhanced maps for serious Google Maps users.


Cost: FREE


Google offers many free products and cloud computing probably isn’t a fad. Talk to your fellow Subscribers. How are they using these tools? As Carl Barks, an animator for Disney and creator of Scrooge McDuck, once said “Work smarter, not harder.”


Contributor - James Marcus, Writer - Communication Specialist WAVE - the ARMLS magazine December / January 2012 21


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