Google Workspacers

Aydin Mirzaee, CEO and Co-Founder of Fellow.app, is passionate about productivity and helping companies become more profitable. Highlights: * How Fellow.app has been using Google Workspace since day one, and how he considers Google Workspace tools like oxygen for a company - alongside incorporation and a bank account. * How Google Calendar makes it easy for Aydin's team to book meetings with one another and makes smart suggestions for meeting times. * How people are meeting more frequently to compensate for the lack of a physical workspace, and it’s more important than ever to ensure these meetings are successful. * Plus, Aydin cracks open his Google Workspace toolkit and shares his favourite productivity tips, tricks, and recommendations to help you get more done with less effort. Full show notes: http://risedigital.tech/aydin-mirzaee Host Christian Newman on LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/christiannewman

“Technology is wonderful, but at the end of the day, we really just want it to get out of the way, give us what we need and a wonderful productive work experience.” Westland Real Estate Group CIO, Jesse Nowlin, oversees technology for over 500 employees in 100 locations at Westland Real Estate and has managed to keep the business on the cutting edge of digital transformation while also founding tabGeeks - a content network for people who work in IT. Highlights: * Real-world business problems Google Workspace helped him solve - like going from 27 servers down to 6! * Incredible growth in the collaborative tech sector that occurred during lockdown as a foreshadowing of the incredible cloud computing developments that are yet to come, especially in Google Workspace. * The benefits of going slow and tackling one problem at a time can help win buy-in and adoption of new technologies. * Context-aware technology and how we’re already seeing its potential to provide what you need, when you need it, without having to ask. * Jesse opens his Google Workspace toolkit and shares some of his favourite tips, tricks and add-ons and MUCH MORE! Full Show Notes: https://risedigital.tech/jesse-nowlin Host Christian Newman on LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/christiannewman

“If you’re running two systems, you’re running that second system for the lowest common denominator - the people who are slow to change… I don’t make a lot of time for the lowest common denominator - I just go for it.” Based in Surrey, British Columbia, A & A Customs Brokers makes borders disappear for importers and exporters. In this episode, Graham Robins shares how he juggles being CEO, a podcast host, computer nerd, lifelong learner, YPO participant, father of four, wake surfer, and car enthusiast - and how he dove head-in with Google Workspace to help focus resources on adding value for customers. Highlights: * The importance of IT departments and how Google Workspace helps scale down and streamline the technical needs and processes of a company to make them more effective. * Graham's early Google Workspace experiences, including how Gmail was one of the first Google apps that opened his eyes to the Google ecosystem's potential and convinced him to make the switch over. * The difficulties of retaining old systems when attempting to implement Google Workspace. He concentrates in particular on the resistance that will be faced from within the organization and how to cope with it in order to get people to unite behind and commit to the transition. * Plus, Graham opens his Google Workspace toolkit and shares some of his favourite tips, tricks and add-ons. Full Show Notes: https://risedigital.tech/graham-robins Host Christian Newman on LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/christiannewman

"The concept or idea of having a live Google Doc transcribe the meeting in different languages as it's going on, which you can edit and mark-up in real time - that's just absolutely mind-blowing." - Rowan Manson Hundreds of enterprises and organizations have benefited from Rowan's help integrating Google Workspace. He relocated from Scotland to Canada in early December to lead SADA's North American sales effort. In this episode, we talk about his excitement for Workspace and the tremendous transformational power it can have on an organization's operations and culture. Highlights: * How technology, if it’s too difficult to navigate, can become a barrier, and how Google Workspace overcomes these obstacles by being intuitive and simple to use. * A dive deep into Google Chat and what collaboration and contextual awareness features they expect to see in 2021. * A discussion on the productivity and inclusiveness potential of Google Meet translation and transcription features. * How privacy and trust are becoming increasingly hot topics, and Google Workspace security and compliance possibilities in 2021. * AI integration and its broader position in Google Workspace, including what it does now, what it will do in the future, and its relative benefits and disadvantages. * Rowan opens his Google Workspace toolkit and shares some of his favourite tips, tricks and add-ons. Full Show Notes: https://risedigital.tech/graham-robins Host Christian Newman on LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/christiannewman

“When I think about Google Workspace... I would say that it's something that helps people connect and work together easier, most importantly, it helps people work more smartly together” - Amit Sharma Amit is a Senior Leader that has gained valuable experiences over the past 18 years in the field of Information Technology (IT). Amit is currently Director of Team Member Technology Services at TELUS. HIGHLIGHTS * How technology and cultural norms have transformed at TELUS. * How Amit engaged internal business partners to decide that Google Workspace was the right solution for their business and their people. * How starting with WHY helped Amit measure and win buy-in for the Google Workspace transformation at TELUS. * How Google Meet helps TELUS run 60-65,000 meetings per week. * What’s in Amit’s Google Workspace toolkit. Full Show Notes: https://risedigital.tech/graham-robins Host Christian Newman on LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/christiannewman