"Hangouts are just simple to use and it's a more modern way of bringing together your team, which used to be cumbersome and costly and not as easy of a user experience," Hanapole says. "And Google+ as a whole is just a very straightforward approach to solving a communications issue and bringing together teams at a very low cost."
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