A practical Guide

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If you already use Gmail you practically have a Google+ account

Otherwise go to plus.google.com and create your account.

Since few weeks now Google has implanted a single login for everything in Google

Google+ Getting Started

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First Step -Optimize Your Google+ Profile

Add a good headshot picture

Add relevant keywords to Introduction, Employment, Education or Places lived

Include hyper links Link your profile to Your website(s) - (Under “contributor to

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Why does it matter

Your Tag Line

Employment

Location

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Google+ - The feed

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Optimize Your Google+ Profile - Continued

Part of claiming authorship-A short video that can help

http://castillomediagroup.com/claiming-google-authorship/

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Circles let you group people and pages together based on how you think of them

Circling is a one way relationship like follow in Twitter.

Can be used for both listening and talking Other people cannot see your circles names You can circle up to 5000

Step#2 – Organize Your Circles

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Create a circle of people who post content that is relevant to your business.

You can choose to see the content of only one circle on the stream.

An excellent way to get updated about topics you are interested in . This is a bit like twitter bit there much more information you can read right in the stream.

Engage – Ask questions, comment on post or Like (+1) posts

Using circle for listening

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Circle can be used to indicate what piece of content is shared with who. It is used with◦ Posts◦ Events◦ YouTube sharing◦ Hangouts

Using Circles for Boardcasting

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The Google+ settings can be found under your Google account settings (https://www.google.com/settings/plus)

You can control◦ Who can interact with you and your posts◦ Choose which profile tabs are shown to visitors◦ Chose when to get notified by email or phone when certain events occur

Your Google+ Settings

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Posting

Add photosAdd video

Add event

Add a link

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Tag people or page using + or @ You can edit after you post +1 = “Like” To bold text— put *asterisks* around the

word or phrase To underline text— put _underscores_

around the word or phrase • To strikethrough text— put— dashes—

around the word or phrase

Posting

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Setting post visibility

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When you are posting content to specific circle you can tick a checkbox that will send an email to everyone in this circle and push a notification to their phones if they have this feature turned on.

Send an Email to Your Circles 

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You can post a Google form (from within Google Drive) onto Google+ and allow other to fill it without needing to log in.

Important – If you are using Google Make sure to uncheck the “Require <organization name> login to view the form

Posting Google Forms

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Posting Google Forms

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Click the down arrow in the upper right corner of the post.  

Click ‘Embed Post’ Copy the text in the embed

post box

Embedding Posts in your website

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Paste the text into the code editor of the page you want to embed the post.

In a WordPress website:

Embedding Posts in your website - continued

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Google+ Pages provide businesses, products, brands, and organizations with a public identity and presence on Google+.

Pages can for the following categories:◦ Product or Brand◦ Company, Institution or Organization◦ Local Business or Place◦ Arts, Entertainment or Sports◦ Other

Google+ Pages

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Google+ Pages interact in the Google+ world similar to the way that regular Google+ profile owners do - they can ◦ Add people to circles (This is relatively new,

might not last)◦ Share things in Google+◦ +1 comments and photos◦ Connect to its own YouTube channel◦ Create and join Hangouts

Google+ Pages - Continued

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Creating and Managing Pages

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Personal profile must be for people and Google is very strict about it

You can create several pages as you want A page can be managed by several

managers

Pages vs. Personal Profile

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Google+ Local business page

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Local search results

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Google Maps

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Reviews can be added only by a logged in Google+ account

All local businesses will eventually be on Google+

Google+ Local

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There are two types of Google Hangouts:

◦ Hangouts which are are more of an engagement tool with friends, very much like Google chat and Skype.

◦ ◦ Hangouts on Air – Where you and up to 9

guests can hangout and discuss or present any topic and broadcast that conversation to the rest of the world.

Goolge+ Hangouts

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Broadcast your content live across the internet

Schedule broadcasts and go live in HD on Google+, YouTube, and your website.

It will be recorded and automatically saved on your YouTube channel.

Hangout On air

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