MC+A has been involved in leading the development of the The LSNC Google API Project. LSNC received a 2010 TIG award to overcome the lack of integration between LSNC’s domain-specific Google Apps platform and their case management system, Pika an open source PHP-based application. The objectives of the project are to create practical solutions for integrating select content elements of Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Groups into Pika, utilizing open source design and coding techniques readily adaptable to other open source CMS applications.
Brian Lawlor of LSNC recently posted an article updating the progress. You can find the article: here.
Earlier today, we released the second release of the Pika Google Apps project sponsored by . The LSNC Google API Project is a national demonstration project funded by the LSC Technology Initiative Grants Program. This project is maintained by Legal Services of Northern California (LSNC), a ten-office legal aid program serving low-income clients in 23 counties in the upper third of California. The second release focuses on integration of Google Docs.
Now a Pika user can sync their case documents to Google Apps. Additionally, we’ve resolved some bugs with the previous release. We’ll document the project a bit more soon but go here to download the lastest files:
The LSNC Google API Project is driven by a practical dilemma: The need to overcome the lack of integration between LSNC’s cloud-based case managment system and the core set of Google Apps they rely upon everyday to get work done.
Chicago, IL (PRWEB) April 26, 2011 Legal Services of Northern California (LSNC) had a need to overcome the integration gap between their cloud-based case management system and the core set of Google Apps products they rely upon to get their work done. LSNC was awarded funding from the LSC Technology Initiative Grants Program to develop a solution that would solve some common integration issues facing many legal service groups.
The LSNC Google API Project is a national demonstration project, released under the GNU General Public License is being developed in partnership with MC+A. The project’s goal is to demonstrate how open source Google APIs can be used for practical integration of the Google Apps platform with open source case management systems used by legal service programs. Once development is complete the project will be maintained by LSNC.
As part of an iterative approach MC+A developed a release schedule that address LSNC issues by priority. The first priority for the project was integration of the case management system with Google Apps Calendar
“Integration of Google Calendar with our CMS illustrates what we need to accomplish,” says Brian Lawlor, Regional Counsel at LSNC. “Instead of the two platforms having separate, essentially duplicate calendaring systems, we are replacing the calendaring system native to the CMS with the more flexible, powerful Google Calendar functions. Doing so, our users can create and edit one set, not two, of case-related calendar events, and can do so from either the Google Calendar or the CMS. One calendaring system to rule them all!”
MC+A will be developing three addition integration components (Gmail, Google Docs and Google Groups) for the API project with additional iterations scheduled for release before the end of Q2.
“This is a great first step toward integrating these two systems,” Michael Cizmar, MC+A’s Managing Partner stated when asked about the project. “It really shows just a small part of what can be done using the Google Apps API to integrate into an existing system. We are looking forward to the community’s involvement in the coming months.”
The project is licensed under the GNU General Public License and is maintained at: http://code.google.com/p/lsnc-google-api/
About MC+A
MC+A is dedicated to solving business challenges by enabling organizations to derive maximum value from their business intelligence assets. They provide solutions focused on managing business intelligence and help their clients build, find and share those assets securely. MC+A was the first Google Enterprise Partner and is also on the Board of Advisors to Open Pipeline.
About Legal Services of Northern California
LSNC, a ten-office legal aid program serving low-income clients in 23 counties in the upper third of California, has long been recognized as one of the finest and most effective legal services programs in the country.
On December 13th, join MC+A’s founder and managing partner Michael Cizmar for a detailed debrief on the most recent update to the Google Search Appliance, version 6.8.
REGISTER TO ATTEND THIS FREE WEBINAR.
Monday, December 13, 2010
11:30PM PST | 2:30PM EST
THE GOOGLE SEARCH 6.8 WEBINAR WILL COVER:
Cloud Connect – integrated search with Google Apps, Site Search and Twitter
People Search – Search profile information about people in your organization
Dynamic Navigation – filter search results with specific metadata attributes
Active-Active – provide high availability by directing search traffic to multiple appliances
Sharepoint 2010 – Search all content within Sharepoint 2010 out of the box
About Michael
Michael Cizmar is the founder and President of MC+A, one of the very first Google Enterprise Professional partners and has advised organizations such as Volkswagen, New York Post, Los Angeles Metro, and Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco on findablity in the enterprise. Michael also serves on the Advisory Board to Open Pipeline.
For more information about this and any upcoming events, please contact us.
Google Anaytics is a great solution. Having said that, if you have ever spent time trying to use Site Overlay to really get your head around user interaction in regards to site metrics, you know how frustrating that process can be. Staring at report data while having the live site open in another tab, really left something to be desired.
On Friday, a new feature call In Page Analytics was rolled out by Google. This new feature should go a long way to enhancing the process of understanding user behavior on your site.
This feature should be live in you accounts already and does not require any modification to you ga.js snippet.
In Page Analytics focuses data displays:
The first is Bubbles. Bubbles indicate which links users clicked on, including a numerical representation of the percentage of total click the link received.
The second is a little more straight forward, Content Detail. This section additional insight into specific metrics. As with other reports, you can apply advanced segments.
On September 23rd, join Smartlogic’s Toby Conrad and MC+A’s founder and managing partner Michael Cizmar for a detailed debrief on how combining Smartlogic’s Semaphore with a Google Search Appliance turns a good search engine into the platform for compelling, intuitive search applications.
Register to Attend this Free Webinar.
Thursday, September 23, 2010
12:00PM PST | 3:00PM EST
The Google Search / Semaphone webinar will cover:
GSA search foundations (including the 6.4 updates!)
The semantic extension for ontology and classification that is Smartlogic’s “Semaphore”
Understanding the GSA integration
Using metadata to drive faceted search and intuitive, dynamic content navigation
Providing intelligent links and recommendations between topics
Using topic pages to drive more traffic to your site and to keep people for longer
About the Presenters
About Michael
Michael Cizmar is the founder and President of MC+A, one of the very first Google Enterprise Professional partners and has advised organizations such as Volkswagen, New York Post, Los Angeles Metro, and Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco on findablity in the enterprise. Michael also serves on the Advisory Board to Open Pipeline.
About Toby
Toby Conrad has been a Senior Consultant with Smartlogic for seven years and has advised organizations such as NASA, Bank of America, RBS, and Schlumberger.
For more information about this and any upcoming events, please contact us.
MC+A will be attending the 2010 Chicago Small Business Expo. Come and stop by our booth (K7) to see how MC+A can help your small business stay connected to your information.
We will be on site discussing Google Apps and its benefits to your business.
For more information, including links to directions and registration check out our event page.
Google has just released 6.4 on the enterprise support site and has updated code.google.com’s documentation. We have yet to install and verify. But some of the big changes so far:
JavaScript Crawling
The search appliance now can detect links and content generated dynamically. I wonder if this will help the forms authentication wizard?
Serve Time Authentication
You will no longer need to enable or disable security manager and legacy auth as in 6.2. The default behavior of the appliance is to now centralize authentication for:
Cookies
HTTP Basic and NTLM
Kerberos
SAML
Connectors
Administrative Improvements
There are various administration improvements, most notably:
LDAP Setup
New options to use LDAP during serve-time and looking up a user’s group during authentication.
Timeout for Auth Requests
New option allows specification wait time for GSA before processing batch authorizations.
Head Requestor Deny Rules
Allows you to identify URLs where content servers deny users access with codes other than HTTP code 401. (Non web standard pages)
Google introduced Asynchronous Tracking as an “alternate way to track” websites. To recap the benefits of using the new asynchronous ga.js snippet over the older ga.js are:
Faster tracking code load times via improved code execution
Improvements in data collection accuracy
Elimination of tracking errors caused by the ga.js snippet not being fully loaded
Google released the latest patch to software version 6.2. Please contact your MC+A customer support contact for information regarding this or to schedule a time for an upgrade to be performed.
