1. Log into your Google Apps Administrative Dashboard (Example: http://google.com/a/cpanel/YOUR-DOMAIN.COM)

2. Go to Service Settings > Email

1. Select Enable Gmail Labs for my users

2. Save Changes

1. Log into your Google Apps Gmail

2. Go to Settings > Labs and scroll to the bottom where you should find Enable Add any gadget by URL

3. Save changes

4. You should now see Gadgets in the top navigation panel. If not, you’ll need to refresh your pages and go back to Settings (top-right corner)

1. Go to http://www.google.com/ig/directory?synd=open

2. Search for “Google News”

3. Click Add to your webpage

3. Click Get the Code

You’ll see something like this…

4. We’re only concerned with this section http://andrewgadget.googlepages.com/google-news.xml

1. Using your mouse, copy the text as referenced in the image. The select the text starting with the second http reference and ending with .xml

2. Paste this text into your text editor or somewhere that you won’t loose it.

1. Log into your Google Apps Gmail

2. Go to Settings > Gadgets

1. Paste the URL http://andrewgadget.googlepages.com/google-news.xml to the gadget URL field

2. Select Add when you’re finished

After adding the Google News Gadget, you’ll see it in the sidebar on the left

Note: to remove go to Settings > Gadgets and select Remove

Understand that the Gmail Labs area is just that…a lab of new and yet to be fully released features that may or may not ever work their way into the ‘production’ side of the Gmail. On the surface this is a simple use of Google Gadgets but Google provides an open protocol for developers can use to create their own gadgets…which can be particularly useful within your business.