How to Make Your Small Business Look Big
Gina Trapani of Lifehacker.com talks about about How to Make Your Small Business Look Big using Google Apps. We have used the Google Apps for our research group since it was introduced. We find it very useful and convenient for distributed document authoring and content creation, and of course for professional looking email addresses 
We use Google Docs Forms for data collection. They totally Rock! You can create a form, embedded it into a page/blog post and display the collected data.
We also started using Microsoft Office Live Workspace recently. It provides seamless integration with Microsoft Office 2007 which we extensively use for creating charts, graphs and pivot tables etc. However, unlike Google Apps, Live Workspace currently doesn’t support custom domains, so you end up using hotmail.com accounts. Which is not very professional when you are exchanging data with other groups. But once Live Workspace offers custom domain and inline editing for spreadsheets and documents we will seriously investigate it as an alternative to Google Apps. If you have any questions about either of these platforms, please free to email me. I am in no way associated with either of these companies or platform. I just use them on a daily basis so I may be able to help you out.
