Skills: Use Google Plus, compose Google Plus posts for your circles, compose Google Plus posts for a communityConcepts: Ongoing improvement and change in network applications, wire-frame diagram

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Using Google Plus

Where does this topic fit?

• Internet concepts– Applications– Technology– Implications

• Internet skills– Application development– Content creation– User skills

Create a new post?Edit an old post?See posts from people in your circles?Add/remove people from circles?Search for posts?Create and join communities?Find people?See people’s posts and profiles?Use + and # prefixes?

Demo/play

Pause to play around with the program. Think about what is in memory, the role of the client and server, etc. while you try it out.

How do I:

Let’s look at four of the top-level pages

View posts selectively

View your profile and posts

Communities

Manage circles

The general user interface pattern

Options for the currently selected page

The options for the currently selected page are shown in a horizontal menu near the top of the screen.

Conversation – posting to circles and communities

Create posts

Filter what you see in your incoming stream

Keep the conversation going

• Recommend

• Forward to others

• Comment

Add a comment when you share

Categorizing a new community post(AKA assigning a tag to a new post)

What’s up with the asterisks ( * ) around the title?

Sharing with a community

Miscellaneous

Pending notifications

After a post is complete

If it’s your postIf it’s someone else’s

Organization accounts

+Larry Press

Names start with +

Search tags start with #

Rapid change

Wireframediagram

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Summary

Self study questions

Without looking back can you name the four Google Plus pages we discussed?

Briefly describe each page and its use.

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BA

C

F

H

G

ED

Without looking back, state how each of these regions of the Google Plus Home page is used. Go back and check your answer when you do as much as you can.

Resources

Get a Google Plus account at:http//plus.google.com

Google Plus help:http://www.google.com/support/plus/?hl=en

Five things Google Plus does better than Facebook or Twitter: http://bit.ly/tHS3xd

Hangouts on air help:https://support.google.com/plus/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2553119&topic=2553242&rd=1