This was originally posted in late 2015 but thought it was important enough to update and keep around…
We are all becoming more and more dependent on google in our work, school, or daily lives. Like all technology, we just expect it to always work. I will give google credit for being a very solid and dependable suite of applications. But they are not perfect and once in a great while there is a problem. We have experienced a few outages here at Willard and when we see one, it needs to serve as a wake-up call. We live in an amazing time but there can still be problems. Obviously, the first step is to identify the problem. There is an Apps Status Dashboard that anyone can check to determine if Google is having any known issues. If they are having issues then it is on to “Plan B”. You can pre-configure your machine to be able to work offline during an outage. Here is a short tutorial from PC magazine about how to do that. It has to be done ahead of time, so it can be your “Plan B” for those outages. It is not a perfect solution and obviously there is no real-time collaboration, but maybe it will help make the time productive.
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