One year mark for Google Apps Education Edition

Posted by Jeff Keltner, Business Development Google Apps Education Edition

It's been one year since we unveiled Google Apps Education Edition and we've seen great progress in that time. Thousands of educational institutions on six continents now use Google Apps, and we have hundreds of thousands of active users. We want to thank our customers for providing feedback and having an open dialogue with us. Based on feedback from lots of folks, we have rolled in more than 40 product and feature updates in this first year, including:

• Increased inbox storage
• Mail migration and routing
• New Google Docs UI
  
• Shared documents and presentation features
• Customizable start pages
• Shared address book
• Web-based multi-user chat
• IMAP for Gmail (coming soon)

By keeping in touch with key customers, we can make the changes and additions necessary to truly meet your needs. Our Google@School event was a great success in connecting with our customers and gathering feedback last year, check out the video:



And this year at the Educause conference in Seattle we're announcing the first Customer Advisory Board (CAB) for Google Apps Education Edition. They are:

• Abilene Christian University
• Arizona State University
• Central Piedmont Community College
• Northwestern University
• University of North Carolina - Greensboro
• University of Southern California

These members represent a cross-section of the educational community as well as the range of institutions using Google Apps. We're meeting for the first time this week to address the needs and demands of all types of educational institutions.