Google?

Professional & business

  • Helped businesses (from small local companies to media powerhouses and MNCs) implement cloud technologies by Google and other vendors.
  • Used Google Analytics on clients' web sites to help them improve business results with web performance tracking.
  • Developed custom cloud-based solutions for quickly sharing data (Google Docs-based content management) and connecting workteams (Google- and Dropbox-powered data collection, replication and distribution).
  • Evangelized and implemented several cloud-based solutions at the Comenius University (largest in Slovakia)
  • Maintained a Google blog in the Slovak language.
  • Hands-on experience: admin of a number of Google Apps domains with hundreds of users (account provisioning, migration,...).
  • To play on a Microsoft theme: where do you want to go tomorrow? Maybe cloud technologies can help you get there quickly and efficiently?

Academic involvement

  • Research:

    • Google Apps implementation barriers (2007 Research & Lecture)
    • Use of Google products in the academic environment
      (various aspects from the Information Science perspective)
    • Managers, leaders and their use of Google technologies
  • Speaking about Google: CASLIN 2007 -- InfoUse 2007 -- IIKS 2008,...
  • Teaching: Information and communication technologies in education
    (information search and processing skills, heavy use of Google tools)
  • Course development: currently preparing an e-learning course for managers teaching them to make the most of the available Google products

Selected publications (in Slovak)

GONDOĽ, Ján. 2007. Bariéry pri implementácii Google Apps v univerzitnom prostredí [CD-ROM]. In: Nová paradigma spracovania a využívania informácií. Zborník zo sympózia konaného 21.11.2007 v Univerzitnej knižnici v Bratislave. Ed. Irena Lányiová, Milan Regec. Bratislava: Univerzita Komenského, 2007. s. 72-77

GONDOĽ, Ján. 2007. Vplyv Google aplikácií na prípravu, spracovanie a komunikáciu vedeckých poznatkov [CD-ROM]. In: CASLIN 2007, 3.-7. júna 2007, Stupava. Bratislava: Univerzitná knižnica, 2007.

Selected Google-related talks

  • May 2008 -- Tech talks: Google Apps implementation case study, Google App Engine intro, Google Sites as Microsoft Sharepoint alternative,... (IIKS 2008)
  • April 2008 -- Information management lecture for PhD. students at the School of Arts, Comenius University (demo of Google Docs, Calendar, Reader,...)
  • Nov. 2007 -- Google Apps implementation barriers (InfoUse 2007)
  • June 2007 -- Google Gears & future of web apps (CASLIN 2007)