Google Spaces for Internal Comms and a Social Workspace
While Google Sites serves as the solid intranet component, Google Spaces stimulates social engagement right from Chat and Gmail. Learn about the different ways of utilizing Workspace Chat Spaces for internal communications and project management.
The Role and Importance of Team Spaces
Google Spaces bring teams together to discuss notes, add Drive files and assign tasks. Therefore, it's plain to see that Spaces help fulfill a very important part of the productivity package in Workspace. Similar to the products like Slack, collaboration on a single topic with admins and members allows for essential conversations.Ā
Some critical features include threaded conversations, which make it easier to elaborate on your colleague's posts. In the "Files" tab of a space, you can see all the documents referenced out of Google Drive. Dedicated spaces can be made by project, by department or otherwise divided. Enabling Spaces in the domain or by organizational unit creates a new layer of discussion options.
Google Chat, specifically Spaces, is your home for Workspace threads, reactions, announcements and more.
How Spaces Boosts Collaboration within Groups
You can use Google Workspace directory groups to quickly add a whole division into a Space. The advantage of Google Groups is that it is much more fluid based on how admin manages adding new users and removing others. Although tasks can only be assigned to one responsible individual member of the group using @, groups can be tagged in chat to notify them of new actions, goals, direction, etc.
The Google Tasks interface of Spaces is similar to that in Gmail. There you can:
Create a task
Mark a task as complete
Assign a task to a Space member
Assign a due date for task completion with in a handy calendar. And this integrates beautifully with Google Calendar by the way.
Jump to the thread anchor where the task is located in the Space
