NameComGoogleApps
The DomainRegistrar, named Name.com appears to be the first registrar, who has entered the community arena, offering a public dialogue with Aboutus members in DomainRegistrarTransfer.
Now we have the opportunity to have an additional dialogue, on how to use the GoogleApps, which are integrated into the products of Name.com.
Fridemar: Hello Caleb, I am a new client of your services and I am glad, that we can ask you questions in a domain oriented public wiki. No other registrar offers such an innovative convenience yet. As I am new to GoogleApps, I am going to ask you questions, that allow a soft learning curve for all interested peers here. So my first question is: Are there already reference clients, who use GoogleApps (in connection with a Name.com account) as a tool for marketing their DomainPortfolio. If yes, then please give a link here, so that we can invite them and build on that. If this is not the case, then I am also happy to openly list my portfolio on AboutUs.org, moving onwards together from there as pioneers. In any case we are in accordance with the core-values of AboutUs.org (Do-ocracy,Transparency,WikiWay, WikiWayOfLife to name a few of AboutUsValues) Fridemar 10:55, 31 May 2008 (PDT)
Caleb: ...
Fridemar: Caleb, I guess there is not yet any client, who has been using Google Spreadsheets for SocialDomaining and OpenBusiness, so someone must start it. What about doing it together. As illustrational material I take my real account at name.com FridemarOpenDomainPortfolioAtNameCom to ask you all the questions, that help newcomers to jumpstart.
My first question is: How do I make my domain SocialDomaining.info a GoogleSpreadsheet, that contains the subset of all those owned domains I offer for sale, starting from simple to more complex solutions.
Caleb: (as quoted from his email and wikified by fridemar)
- Login to your Google Apps account.
- Click on 'Inbox' in the upper side portion of the page.
- Click 'Documents' in the upper left portion of the page.
- Select 'Spreadsheet' from the 'New' drop down menu in the upper left
portion of the page.
- When completed click the 'Save and Close' button in the upper right
portion or the page.ogin to your Google Apps account.
- Click on 'Inbox' in the upper side portion of the page.
- Click 'Documents' in the upper left portion of the page.
- Select 'Spreadsheet' from the 'New' drop down menu in the upper left
portion of the page.
- When completed click the 'Save and Close' button in the upper right
portion or the page.
Fridemar: Yes, there is an overwhelming mass of information, that strucks the new user. So I'll start with even simpler questions. You wrote me an email with the instructions above and allowed me to make the communication a public dialogue. It would make me very happy to convince you, that it is a good thing, to become a member of Aboutus.org and answer in public. Thank you.
Thanks to Wiki, we can make even the most complex stuff easy and reusable, by early refactoring it on different pages. So I would be happy if you, Caleb or another member could give the answer on the dedicated pages, in this case on Login to your Google Apps account. Thank you.
Caleb: ... (or anyone who has time/knowledge or is free to answer):
Fridemar: What is the benefit for the customer to use GoogleApps together with a DomainRegistrar?
Caleb: ...
Fridemar: Ok, your guarantee is until now restricted to non-open communication (phone or email) [[1]]. But imagine the difference between answering individually questions bilaterally and doing it openly in a wiki? Registrars, who are engaging in an open wiki dialogue have a significant advantage. Please delete this memo, after answering. Thank you fridemar 17:02, 5 June 2008 (PDT)
I proceeded as you wrote me in your email, but the procedure didn't work as expected:
First I clicked in my Name.com account on the active link of SocialDomaining.info:
Then I get a Sign in prompt:
After signing in I get the Google Dashboard View:
After clicking the Inbox, we are Url redirected to a page, where it is not possible to create a Spreadsheet.
So I omitted the your suggested "Inbox step" and clicked Documents. (Was it a typo to suggest Inbox or has it some other use?)
Now I came to a Google Documents setting page and could figure it out
myself.
I clicked "Change Url for Docs" and selected the default, which was not selected by some strange default :), but anyhow this one worked.
Now I could create my first rudimentary Google Spreadsheet for public viewing. Meanwhile it is growing to [FridemarOpenDomainPortfolio] fridemar 06:08, 9 June 2008 (PDT)
fridemar 16:40, 6 June 2008 (PDT)
fridemar 16:48, 5 June 2008 (PDT)
fridemar 08:51, 4 June 2008 (PDT)
Note
The above dialogue was inspired by a great ad-campaign of Name.com. It serves as an example for open collaboration, that creates and shares value for Name.com and the Aboutus.org community via synergy. Fridemar is an active member of the AboutUs.org community, but neither a paid nor an affiliated member of either company.
G OpenDomainPortfolio is on the Google radar now (minutes later after the creation of the page). fridemar 02:58, 4 June 2008 (PDT)
