Brian Lawlor of LSNC recently posted an article updating the progress. You can find the article: here.

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:

http://code.google.com/p/lsnc-google-api/downloads/list

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.

http://www.mcplusa.com

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.

http://www.lsnc.net/

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.

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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.

In Page Analytics Overview Video (Google):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl8GW3M_2h0

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.

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.

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)

The full documentation is here.

• 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

A recent Google Analytics script test preformed by Position 2 reveal quantifiable speed increases when using the asynchronous.

Analytics Tracking Code Test Key Findings

Position 2 observed the following results from their test:

1. A 17% speed increase in page load using the asynchronous ga.js over the traditional ga.js code
2. Page placement has little effect on the asynchronous ga.js load time conpared to the traditional ga.js
3. Top of the page placement no longer slows the page load. This is important when tracking clicks is and possible while page is loading content.

Full Position 2 Report