Google+ Custom URLs: This Week in Social Media. Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. What’s New This Week? Google+ Expands Availability of Custom URLs: “If your profile meets the following criteria, you’ll now be able to claim a custom URL: has a profile photo, has at least 10 followers and has an account that’s at least 30 days old.” "Once you meet the eligibility criteria, just visit your profile or page to begin the claiming process. " Pinterest Introduces Related Pins: “Related pins are picked specially for you based on the unique things you’re into, such as other pins you’ve saved or liked.” "To help control what kinds of pins you see, click the 'i' info icon on any related pin in your feed.
" Twitter Makes Timelines More Visual: “Timelines on Twitter will be more visual and more engaging: previews of Twitter photos and videos from Vine will be front and center in tweets.” What do you think? InShare273. Make a URL “Pretty” When working with students I like to use Google Spreadsheets because my entire class can be on the same document at the same time. Because a spreadsheet is divided up into boxes (cells) each student can have their own spot without “stepping” on other students inputting information. If students create digital projects and you want them to view other students projects, try having students put their link into a collaborative Google Spreadsheet.
This will allow the other students to quickly and easily access the other students projects. Many URL’s are long and ugly. Pasting them into a spreadsheet makes it challenging for other students to know exactly what they are clicking on. Use the formula =hyperlink(“URL”,”TEXT”) If my URL is I would instead enter =hyperlink(“ For a sample template: Like this: Shorten urls, share files and track visits - Owly. Bitly | shorten, share and track your links.