It was a thrill to wake up this morning, power on Gmail for BolesUniversity.com, and be greeted with an invitation to set up Google Voice for video chat and phone calling from directly inside Gmail!

Google told me to download and install the Google Voice browser plugin — but when I ran the updater on my Mac, I was told a “newer version” was already installed.

Hmm.  That was odd.  How could I already have a newer version of something I’d never installed?

I did as I was told and I canceled the Google Voice updater and tried to make a call.

No go.

I re-downloaded the Google Voice plugin and forced the update to overwrite the “newer” version I didn’t know I had.

I restarted my browsers and — Bingo! — Google Voice was alive in my life in my Google Apps Gmail!

Now I know I really don’t need Skype!

I can also see my pre-existing Google Voice call history inside Gmail.

I can even set up my voice and video chat preferences and settings from inside Gmail for Google Apps:

Google Apps keep getting better, and more valuable, with every passing moment of every single day.

I love streamlined simplicity, and Google Apps are quickly becoming the ultimate, vibrant — and burning! — fiery core of my workday.

8 Comments

    1. David Boles – New York City – David Boles was born in Nebraska and holds an MFA from the Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Theatre Studies at Columbia University in the City of New York. He is an author, dramatist, editor, publisher, and teacher who writes across the live stage, print, radio, television, film, and the web. With more than 50 books in print, David continues to write 2MM words a year and has authored over 25K articles. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Authors Guild, and PEN America, and founded The United Stage advocacy platform on the principle that playwrights have a duty to direct their own work. Read the Prairie Voice Archive at Boles.com | Buy his books at David Boles Books Writing & Publishing at BolesBooks.com | Study with Script Professor at ScriptProfessor.com | Touch American Sign Language mastery at Hardcore ASL at HardcoreASL.com | Explore the Human Meme podcast at HumanMeme.com | Train with Boles Bells at BolesBells.com.
      David W. Boles says:

      Google Voice in Google Apps is super slick, Gordon! Now if we could only get Google Voice on our iPhones — we’d be totally and completely golden!

  2. ANNE – I live and teach on the upper West Coast of the United States. My interests are Philosophy, English, and Social Communication.
    anne says:

    Looks like great fun, David! Google must be getting over their Wave hangover. This is actually something useful.

    1. David Boles – New York City – David Boles was born in Nebraska and holds an MFA from the Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Theatre Studies at Columbia University in the City of New York. He is an author, dramatist, editor, publisher, and teacher who writes across the live stage, print, radio, television, film, and the web. With more than 50 books in print, David continues to write 2MM words a year and has authored over 25K articles. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Authors Guild, and PEN America, and founded The United Stage advocacy platform on the principle that playwrights have a duty to direct their own work. Read the Prairie Voice Archive at Boles.com | Buy his books at David Boles Books Writing & Publishing at BolesBooks.com | Study with Script Professor at ScriptProfessor.com | Touch American Sign Language mastery at Hardcore ASL at HardcoreASL.com | Explore the Human Meme podcast at HumanMeme.com | Train with Boles Bells at BolesBells.com.
      David W. Boles says:

      It is definitely fun and useful, anne! I feel like Google have their groove back!

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