Google's suite of cloud-based productivity tools—Docs, Sheets, Slides, Gmail, Drive, and the AI assistant Gemini—all stored and shared online rather than on a single computer. It helped shift many teams toward working in shared, always-current files visible to collaborators in real time, replacing the habit of emailing attachments back and forth.
When the nonprofit's board needed to update its annual presentation, all twelve members opened the same Google Slides file at once and made changes together in real time—no one had to wait for an emailed version, wonder if they were looking at the latest draft or defer to the decisions of whomever 'had the keyboard.'
