Vic Gundotra, Senior VP of Google+, exits stage left. Big changes are happening over in Mountain View.
Re/code reports that Vic Gundotra, who helped introduce and acclimate the world to Google's social network, is leaving the company. Gundotra wrote a heartfelt farewell post on his Google+ page: I have been incredibly fortunate to work with the amazing people of Google. I don't believe there is a more talented and passionate collection of people anywhere else. And I'm overwhelmed when I think about the leadership of Larry Page and what he empowered me to do while at Google. Gundotra will be replaced by new Dave Besbris, who currently serves as vice president of engineering. 30 Resources to Learn the Art of Writing Google+ Posts. Are you pretty clueless when it comes to Google+?
Unfortunately, it’s probably time for a crash course. Recent studies reveal that the social network has pretty much come out of nowhere to register 1.15 billion people as members. Google Plus 101 - Google Plus Basics, Tips and Tricks Plus Pinterest and Social Media Applications. What is Google Plus? A Complete User Guide. (Videos and Blog) If you think Google Plus is just another social site, you are in for a big surprise.
What has been created is, put simply, a phenomenal tool for human communication, and much more. But it takes you to experience it, embrace it and ‘get it’ before this realisation really comes. The complete guide to Google Plus will give you everything you need to use it as an individual or for business, including a free 90 minute video course. Introduction Since its launch in 2011, Google Plus has been gradually moving towards being one of the most active social networks with hundreds of millions of people having active accounts.
Jaana Nyström - Google+ - Promote your Google+ Page Try these different strategies… 8 New and Underappreciated Marketing Resources from Google. The author's posts are entirely his or her own (excluding the unlikely event of hypnosis) and may not always reflect the views of Moz.
We have a bit of a complicated relationship with Google In the SEO/inbound community. We are often the first, and loudest, to call them out when they get their priorities messed up or hoard data for questionable reasons. But on the whole, we use more of Google's wares than probably any other industry. What is Google Plus? A Complete User Guide. (Videos and Blog)
Population rate per country (overall) Google-Plus is going to be your bank account.
Discuss. Managing a Google+ Community - Google+ Help. You can invite circles, individual Google+ users, or email addresses to join your community -- up to 500 people at a time.
Having more people usually increases the number of posts in your community, and encourages others to use it. Important (for moderators/owners): If you invite an email address that person will get an email inviting them to join the community (unless they've opted out of getting such emails). The email will include a link to join the community that can be used once by anyone, not just the person you invited. For example, if the person you invited forwards their community invitation email to another person before clicking the link in the email, the person they forwarded the message to could use the email link to join the community.
Also, if you invite an email address to the community, other moderators and owners will be able to see it. Tip: Anyone can share a community by clicking the "Share this community" button. Web Ad.vantage. Sam Johnston: Leaving Google+ One of those sneaky tweets that links to Google+ just tricked me into wading back into the swamp that it's become, hopefully for the last time (I say "hopefully" because in all likelihood I'll be forced back onto it at some point — it's already to create a Google Account for any Google services without also landing yourself a Google+ profile and Gmail account and it's very likely that the constant prompting for me to "upgrade" to Google+ will be more annoying than the infamous red notification box).
Here's what I saw in my stream: That's pretty much 0% signal and 100% noise, and before you jump down my throat about who I'm following, it's a few hundred generally intelligent people (though I note it is convenient that the prevalent defense for Google+ being a ghost town, or worse, a cesspool, is that your experience depends not only on who you're following, but what they choose to share with you — reminds me of the kind of argument you regularly hear from religious apologists). Google+ Users Spend 3 Minutes Per Month There, ComScore Tells WSJ. With its users only spending an average of three minutes per month on the site, Google+ is a “virtual ghost town” compared to Facebook and other social networking sites.
That’s how the Wall Street Journal characterizes Google’s social network while reporting new usage stats from comScore. According to comScore, Google+ users averaged only three minutes on the site during January, a pittance compared to Facebook’s average of 405 minutes per visitor. Tumblr and Pinterest both saw 89 minutes per user on average, while LinkedIn clocked in at 17 minutes per user and Twitter at 21 minutes. Plus.google.com 31,886,609 UVs for June 2012. Making Google Plus Work. Help (Unofficial) Tom Voute - Google+ - G+ on your Gmail Gmail is my base. Not Google+. I have a… Gmail is my base.
Not Google+. I have a personal Gmail account and Google Apps Gmail for work. Both mail accounts contain more than 100 thousand messages but my two inboxes have less than 10. I like my Gmail so much because I look forward checking them as Gmail allows me to receive just quality mails using filters. If not, I change my filter so that I get quality in the future. Morten Myrstad - Google+ - Google+ grows 43% in June – reaches 31,9 million unique… Extends Google+ Pages to All Users. HootSuite is pleased to announce that Google+ Pages is now available to nearly 5 million users worldwide! Whether you’re on a Free, a Pro or an Enterprise plan, you’ll be able to efficiently manage Google+ Pages alongside other social channels, providing brands a better way to capitalize on the social power of this rapidly expanding social network.
To add Google+ Pages: Access your Profile from the side menu, then select + Add a Social Network under My Social Networks. Social media teams can now fully utilize the advanced capabilities of HootSuite’s engagement, measurement, collaboration and security tool-set to manage the unique brand-focused environment of Google+ Pages for: Targeted Publishing with CirclesAdvanced Circle Management.
Elgan: How I publish from Google+ Technology broadcaster Leo Laporte had me on his show, This Week in Tech (TWiT), recently.
EXCLUSIVE: Google+ History API will bring in your past updates from around the web. Stop the dadgum presses!
Googler Louis Gray just told us about a new Google+ feature that you won’t read about anywhere else. Called Google+ History, this new API will let you add past statuses, updates, purchases, pictures, and more to you personal Google+ timeline from a variety of social and mobile services. These objects are displayed in pretty tiles called “moments.” Create an event - Google+ Google+ Events, A New Online Event Tool. New Google+ Notifications Improve Engagement. Google+ has made engagement with others just a bit easier. It used to be that if you wanted to read or respond to something on Google+, you had to log in to do so. But early this month, Google+ added some new functionality – reading comments, responding to threads and adding +1s – to Gmail notification emails. Users now can control and manage engagement with others without leaving their inbox. Google software engineer Zohair Hyder said in the Official Gmail Blog that users also can reply to notifications from your mobile device (and/or POP or IMAP client).
“Just open the notification email about the post you're interested in, and look for the new prompt, ‘Reply to this email.’ Hyder said the company is always working to create a simpler, more intuitive experience for users. “We’re excited to take another step in this important direction,” he said. Form Sharing Test. Google+ for Business: How Google's Social Network Changes Everything (9780789749147): Chris Brogan. Seven ways to use Google+ at work. Launched only six months ago, Google+ is the new kid on the social networking block.
Despite the late start, it's becoming increasingly useful and important for small businesses. Google+ Pages Now Open For Businesses, Brands, Places & More. Finally, Google is now allowing businesses, brands and any non-human entity to participate in its Google+ social network, through new Google+ Pages that are launching today, promised to be available to everyone shortly. Businesses Weren’t Allowed, Initially Businesses have wanted to be part of Google+ from the start. In fact, many businesses and brands made use of regular Google+ accounts as a way to participate on the service despite their non-human status. However, in July, Google terminated any business accounts that it spotted, including one from Sesame Street, promising that formal business pages would come — and that they’d be worth waiting for. Whopping Google+ traffic growth: 1269% in a week, hits 50M members.
Google+ opened its doors to the public last week, and has since seen a whopping 1269 percent growth in traffic, according to data from Experian Hitwise. The social network may also have hit 50 million members, according to analyst Paul Allen. Google+ has been seen as one of the fasted growing social networks since it first appeared on the grid. The social network reached 10 million users, two weeks out of the box, which Google+ analyst Paul Allen of Ancestry.com predicted days before the company actually announced the numbers in its second quarter earnings call. G+ News, Resources,Tips,Lists & Guides. G+ Google+ just increased your social SEO footprint. Marketing Tactics – Hot and fresh from the press It’s the moment we’ve been waiting for. After about six weeks of anticipation (a.k.a. an eternity in today’s web 5.0 environment), Google just announced that it will roll out two new significant platform updates in the next week.
Update 1: Sharing Web Pages What it does: With the “Web Pages” update, you will see the well-known Plus1 button. At first sight, really nothing new, right? Wait! Dealerships advantage: Using this feature, you can now add a comment on a website you’d like to share, select the circles with whom you want to share this website/webpage, and hit “share”. The Google+ Project. Photos. The #1 Reason You'll Want to Use Google+ Posted by Irene Koehler in Branding, Business, Career, Google+, Social Media, Tips on August 10, 2011 | no responses If you’re still wondering if you ought to bother spending time getting to know yet another social network, I’ve got one big reason you might want to give Google+ a try.
It is clear that the team at Google thought long and hard about how people and brands use Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn and worked to incorporate the best features of all, while adding a few cool features we haven’t seen before. Google+ Three Ways To Display Your Latest Google+ Updates On WordPress. The Google+ Project has been growing rapidly since it’s launch. Many are tipping the service to steal a huge chunk of FaceBooks traffic. Although I have signed up, I haven’t posted much on Google+ as I have been busy over the last few weeks, though I can certainly see the appeal of the service, particularly it addresses the main issue with Facebook by allowing you to allocate friends into different circles.
The Silicon Valley Google+ Meetup (Mountain View, CA. Google Plus Headlines - PlusHeadlines.com. Google+ Building (or Re-Building) your PLN. Twitter just became 5 years old and many of us can remember the first time: we heard of twitter… the first time we experienced powerful collaboration on twitter… some of us can even remember our first tweet (not me, though I can imagine it was something like: “I just don’t understand this…” So, for many it feels like a shock when after 5 years, thousands of tweets, hours of growing and grooming our personal learning network we look at Google+ and say, “I just don’t understand this…” or “Struggling to understand how this is going to fit in…” or “It just doesn’t do what Facebook or twitter does… or doesn’t do it as WELL…” Here are some other things that we are struggling with: “I have “spoken” with a person for years on twitter… but I only know them by his or her handle… – We are shocked that someone we really know so well: children, ailments, dreams, hopes, personal challenges… and we don’t even know his or her name.
If you are feeling this way, know that you are not alone. Thirteen Third-Party Tools for Google Plus to Improve and Customize Your Experience. YouTube embraces Google+ Hangouts for live streaming — Online Video News. Ahmed Zeeshan. 25 Smooth Google+ Icons. Advertisement Just a few weeks have passed to release Google+, but its popularity is already touching new heights. Every one seems to be goggling, googling and talking about it. Google+ Tips & Tricks: 10 Hints for New Users. 15 Google+ Sites & Services for Power Users. Elgan: 10 things I hate about Google+ Opinion July 30, 2011 07:00 AM ET. Google plus Blog. Helper for Google+ Getting the Most out of Google Plus: a Computing bag by Zach Matthai.
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