Google offers a great series of tools to help your team stay organized and in contact with each member, as well as with your filmmakers. Using a Google Account helps identify your film’s contact separately from your personal contact and keeps all your messages and contacts archived.

 

Create a Google Account here. It is suggested you use an account name that reflects your film’s name.

REMEMBER, before creating a Google account for your film check with your filmmakers.

An account includes:

 

• Gmail - A powerful web based e-mail. You can use this as a primary address for contracting the press and media. Learn more in this video.
• Google Docs - Online equivalents to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Your entire team can work on the same document at the same time from different locations. Here is an entertaining video on Google Docs.

 

• Google Calendar - An online calendar that can send reminders to you via SMS text messaging. Learn more in this video.
• Google Tasks - A simple and quick task list. Learn more in this video.
• Google Wave - A communication and collaboration tool, still in preview testing. Learn more in this video.
• Blogger - A simple and free blog. Learn more in this video.
• Google Buzz - A new social network style new feed. Learn more in these videos (one and two).

 

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