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Maslow’s Hierarchy of SRE Needs

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Liz Fong-Jones, a Googler and co-chair of SRECon, describes a scale of activities SRE teams engage in, from the basics (keeping the service operating) to having the freedom to improve the service.

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April 12, 2023

New community features for Google Chat and an update on Currents

**Note:**This blog post outlines upcoming changes to Google Currents for Workspace users. For information on the previous deprecation of Google+ for users with personal Google accounts, please

see this post.

What's Changing

, to focus efforts on community experiences that are better integrated with the rest of Google Workspace. To help our customers manage this transition, we published

announced plans to wind down Currents detailed guidancefor Workspace administrators and enabled customers to opt-in for

automated migration of Currents datato spaces in Google Chat.

export Currents data using Takeoutbefore August 8, 2023. Beginning August 8th, Currents data will no longer be available for download.

Google Chat, so teams can connect and collaborate with a shared sense of belonging. Over the last year, we've delivered features designed to support community engagement at scale, and will continue to deliver more. Here is a summary of the features with additional details below:

new ways for organizations to share informationacross the enterprise with

announcements in Google Chat. This gives admin controls to limit permissions for posting in a space, while enabling all members to read and react, helping ensure that important updates stay visible and relevant. Later this year, we plan to simplify membership management by integrating Google Groups with spaces in Chat, enable post-level metrics for announcements, and provide tools for Workspace administrators to manage spaces across their domain.

New announcements feature in Google Chat on mobile device

Announcements in Google Chat

Adding a Google Group during space creation in Google Chat.

Managing space membership with Google Groups

new ways to make conversations more expressive and engagingsuch as

in-line threadingto enable rich exploration of a specific topic without overtaking the main conversation and

custom emojisto enable fun, personal expression.

A space in Google Chat with in-line threaded conversations.

In-line threaded conversations

Creating a custom emoji in Google Chat on a mobile device.

Discover and join communities with up to 8,000 members

discover and join communities of shared interest. By

searching in Gmail, users can explore a directory of available spaces covering topics of personal or professional interest such as gardening, pets, career development, fitness, cultural identity, and more, with the ability to

invite others to joinvia link. Last year, we increased

the size of communities supported by spaces in Chat to 8,000 members, and we are working to scale this in a meaningful way later this year.

A directory of spaces in Google Chat for users to join.

tools for content moderation and data management. Last year, we introduced

space managers, a community lead with

abilitiesto

moderate conversationand

manage membership, and last year at NEXT, we rolled out

data loss prevention(DLP) for Chat. We will continue to enhance community health and data security for Google Chat.

integrations with essential third-party appssuch as

Jira, GitHub, Asana, PagerDuty,

Zendesk and Salesforce. Many organizations have

built custom workflow apps using low-code and no-code tools, and we anticipate that this number will continue to grow with the GA releases of the Chat API and AppSheet’s Chat app building capabilities later this year.

Who's impacted

Why it’s important

Availability

  • Spaces in Google Chat are available to all Google Workspace customers and users with personal Google Accounts.

Resources