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Google+: There's more to explore. Google+: Fun with Hangouts. Teaching with Google+ Stream This is like Facebook's News Feed, where the sharing happens.

Teaching with Google+

Updates, links and other media from the people you follow will show up here. Posts aren't "hidden," but are "muted. "Circles This was a defining feature for Google+ when it was released -- a selling point that allows users to add people to different "circles" as a way of separating content, updates and the general mixing of different areas of your life. Whereas Facebook lumps everyone together in a single feed, Google+ streams allow you far more flexibility. Users are currently split regarding how well this works in application. Most of the differences between Google+ and Facebook are a matter of branding: one company's "follow" is another company's "Add to Circles. " Beginning Classroom Integration Of course, it is far more than a Facebook clone. 1) Basic: Communication The most basic way Google+ can function in your classroom is as an avenue of communication. 2) Intermediate: Project Management Tips Closing Tips.

What is Google+ (Google Plus) and do I need it? Your Google+ Business Page: How to Use It. Update: This Google Plus Page Guide was updated 16 October 2013 to reflect changes to the Google+ interface.

Your Google+ Business Page: How to Use It

I miss my ’67 VW Bug. Armed with my grease-stained copy of the classic How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive: A Manual for the Compleat Idiot, I could fix anything on that car, with its lawnmower-simple engine. Your Google+ Business Page isn’t really much more complicated than those 1960′s VW engines, but without a good guide, much of what you can do with it might remain buried under the hood. So, without stooping to call you a “compleat idiot,” here is your quick and easy guide under the hood of your Google+ Business Page.

But before we get started… If you haven’t created a page yet, go to Create a Google+ Page.If you have a page, but want to be sure you’ve set it up properly, see our Complete Guide to Optimizing Your Google+ Brand Page. What’s in this guide? Jump to the following sections: Where Is My Page? Clicking on the photo will reveal a list of all the Pages you own or manage. 1. How to Create a Google+ Hangout for Your Customers. As people’s comfort levels with accessing and creating online video increase, it’s likely that your customers and prospects will be more and more willing to interact with your brand through live, interactive video. Here’s how you can create a Google+ Hangout for your customers, and how you can use this tool to position your business as a market innovator.

Google Hangouts is the group video chat feature available on Google+ . There are a number of potential business uses for Google Hangouts including product demos and launches, customer support , brand building, and more. Formatting long posts in Google+ How-to Make RSS Feeds for Google+ Posts Profile. You could create an RSS for one of many reasons, such as, know about the latest news from a website, follow someone’s updates, or something else.

How-to Make RSS Feeds for Google+ Posts Profile

RSS feeds are really useful as they are the easiest way to keep yourself updated with all that’s new. You can also learn a lot if you’re following someone who likes to update about interesting things happening around, hence here’s a method to create an RSS Feeds for Google+ Posts for profiles. People have already begun using Google+ to share things with others, so it’s high time that you start following someone who posts good updates. RSS is the best way to go, because you can then add it to your favorite Feed reader and get updates along with all your other feeds. Google+ Record a Google Hangout.

Google Hangouts is a great tool for anyone wanting to have a round table discussion with a group of people without requiring everyone involved to install specific third-party software or hardware to do so.

Record a Google Hangout

Thanks to Google Hangouts, we’ve been able to enjoy meeting with members of the LockerGnome community in a more personal face-to-face way that IRC and other chat methods just don’t quite deliver. A recent ice storm has left Chris Pirillo without power for a couple days now. During that time, the regularly scheduled live video feed on YouTube has been left in the hands of the LockerGnome team and our Gnomies. In order to keep the content flowing, we quickly needed to coordinate and test a new technical setup that allows us to not only maintain a consistent flow of content, but to minimize the strain on the existing staff. So, we found several viable solutions to the problem. Fraps Camtasia.