Global leader on Internet services, Google has in Nigeria partnered Microres in the hosting of new media workshop for media practitioners in the country.
Speaking at the first phase of the workshop, Head,
Communications and Public Affairs, Google Nigeria, Mr. Taiwo Kola-Ogunlade said
that it’s a collaboration that is expected to spur more media involvement in
the development of contents using available technological tools, especially on
Google platform.
He also disclosed that over 100 media practitioners
participated in the workshop held at the conference hall of News Agency of
Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos.
According to him, a lot of goodies await participants at the
end of the session including certificate to be presented to those who
successfully completed the training.
Speaking during her presentation at the workshop, one of the
Google evangelists, Ms Nmachi Jidenma took participants through the recently
launched GooglePlus even as she encouraged Nigerians embrace the Google’s
social tools by ensuring that they have Google electronic mail account, Gmail;
which is one of the requirements to enjoy the benefits that come with GooglePlus.
According to her, a lot could be achieved using GooglePlus,
including sharing of files with friends, family, acquaintance and even public.
Nmachi further took participants through the use of Google
documents and value proposition of settings in the Gmail, in addition to how to
include signatures on outgoing mails, which she said, could make such a mail
authentic or otherwise.
She also explained ways of delaying mails delivery, at this
era of increasing fast internet for corporate users and to avoid sending the
wrong mails to individuals and mostly superiors, by enabling the undo buttons
in the settings among others.
The root for importation and exportation of emails from
previous email accounts were also showcased to the participants.
On the Google document, Nmachi said that it has the
feasibility for two or more people to contribute simultaneously in writing a
document for a project collaboration, especially as a team working in corporate world,
experimenting with the editor of ITRealms
Online, Mr. Remmy Nweke.
She concluded her session by exposing participants on how
easy it is to set up blogs, mostly when they have Gmail accounts, just as she
took time to show how to customize Gmail accounts for corporate and
organizations using the theme options in the settings to beautify such accounts
alongside the corporate colours among others.
“Most companies are using Google drive, which means that
every staff is on Gmail and customized for such an organization,” she
explained.
Google, she said, has partners that help organizations to go
customized such as Descasio, adding that with Gmail, users could simply
organize their information, declaring that emails should be more than just
getting their emails organized, like marking some mails on important and
creating folders for certain mails.
Another Google evangelist, equally speaking at the workshop,
Mr. Lanre Aina also guided participants on how to optimize the Google search
engine with techniques, which includes participation of attendees.
Participants at the workshop cut across online, print and
broadcast media practitioners.
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