Google announced today on their blog that Google+ will now work with Google Apps, meaning businesses and schools that use Google Apps for email can get onto Google Plus and all the sharing it offers. This is a big step in getting the business world online for internal communications.

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Think about creating a circle of work colleagues and being able to chat, video conference, and post information within your personal forum. Fewer printed memos. Fewer email chains with Reply Alls. Fewer reasons to get on a plane to see a colleague.

With this move, it feels like Google Plus is setting itself up to basically be a free company intranet. It will be interesting also to see how universities adopt it. This is a smart move for an ailing social network, but can we trust it? For now, we're in. Are you?

 

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