Posted by Justin Sadowski, Software Engineer

Raise your hand whether you’d have a hard duration getting things done without the World Wide Web. Arranging a reunion with school friends? You can figure out schedules, vote on a venue, share a map, post pictures and videos and later share everything with those who couldn’t build it, and all without leaving your chair. It’s become so easy to coordinate and share with friends and family that we’ve wondered why the same couldn’t apply to teams of co-workers at work or classmates at school.

That’s why we’re launching Google Apps Team Edition. Now you and your co-workers or classmates have a new way to share documents, spreadsheets, presentations and calendar knowledge online. Just sign up with your work

or school mail address. After confirming that you belong to that organization, it’s easy to invite others from your company or school and start collaborating. There’s no hardware, software or setup involved (and no burden for IT folks).

Of course, organizations need a level of shield and control that individuals don’t have to nag about. Team Edition enables co-workers and classmates to choose to share info just with each other, and not with outsiders, and it lets IT departments actively manage Google Apps, so admins can customize the Google Apps experience for users, including who should have access and which applications are available. You can learn more about all the administrative capabilities on the admin site for Google Apps.

Orginal post by Karen