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The Uber.la Quick-Guide to Google+ (plus)your wall
your profile
your circles
your hangout
June 23, 2012 Presented by John McElhenney@jmacofearth / uber.lacc with attribution
Your G+ Wall
The Uber.la Quick-Guide to Google+ (plus)
Home is the equivalent to your FB wall.
Top Tabs (navigate different views).• Friends• Family• More
• Self (your wall in FB)
Left Nav• Home (news feed)• Profile (your contact info and bio)• Explore (what Google likes)• Hangouts (video chat w/ the world)• Photos (the breakaway hit on G+)• Circles (organizing your contacts)• Local (mapping things near you)• Games (you know, the social kind)• More… (of course, it’s Google!)
Sharing somethingPhoto, Video, Link buttonsFreeform entry fieldPut it in your Google+ streamControl the distribution of your broadcast by Circles, Individuals or the wide-open PUBLIC.
Right Column (currently AD free)• Trending• Hangouts• You Might Like
Plenty of room over there for some FB-like ads. At the moment, Google doesn’t need to generate AD revenue directly from G+. But Local, Games, Trending, and You Might Like are potential sources.
by John McElhenney@jmacofearth / uber.lacc with attribution
Your G+ Profile
The Uber.la Quick-Guide to Google+ (plus)
The Black Google Navigation Bar(unusual for Google to set our priorities for us, I’d drop the grey ones to the far right, how would you organize it?)• + John• Search• Images• Maps• Play• YouTube• News• Gmail• Drive• Calendar
Top Tabs (navigate different views).• Posts (your output)• About (your profile)• Photos (what photos you’ve shared)• Videos (what videos you’ve shared)• +1’s (what are you plussing?)
AboutA bit like your LinkedIn profile for your G+ and all other G-connections. Your Google Profile is showing up all over the web. Make sure you are putting your best foot forward.
by John McElhenney@jmacofearth / uber.lacc with attribution
Your G+ Circles
The Uber.la Quick-Guide to Google+ (plus)
by John McElhenney@jmacofearth / uber.lacc with attribution
Top Tabs (navigate different views).• Your circles (who you’d added)• Have you in circles (who’s added you)• Find people (find more people to
Follow)• Relevance (sort your contacts)
Contacts• Your friends• People you might want to add as
friends• Rolling over a contact will show
the circles they are included in
Your CirclesThe Google concept of managing your contacts via “circles”
Public vs. Private in G+ Circles
The Uber.la Quick-Guide to Google+ (plus)
by John McElhenney@jmacofearth / uber.lacc with attribution
Conceptually* Private Layer
Public Layer
Txt and IM(1 to 1)
Twitter DM(1 to 1)
Email to Friends(1 to 1 / 1 to many)
FB (privacy high)(1 to many)
FB (privacy low)(1 to many)
Email to Public(1 to many)
Twitter(1 to many)
Blogging(1 to many)
Google+ can span your social networks: do you want to be divided or connected?
*Any electronic communication can be capturedand rebroadcast. If you type it, it can be publishedon a roadside billboard. Know your network beforeyou share controversial or private information.
Starting a G+ Hangout
The Uber.la Quick-Guide to Google+ (plus)
by John McElhenney@jmacofearth / uber.lacc with attribution
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Far Right Nav (for wide monitors)• Start a hangout button• Brings up large Start a Hangout
window, to invite friends• Add more people gives you larger
access to add complete CIRCLES of contacts
• Warning: PUBLIC ads your hangout to the public stream, anyone can join
• Once you have made a hangout public you cannot change it back to private
Starting with ChatInitiating the conversation in the chat window allows you to check if the person is available and willing to Hangout.• Clicking on a name brings up a text
chat window• Hangout icon starts a hangout with
only this person• Phone icon starts a Skype-like voice
chat
Your VideoWhat you’ll look like to others
The URL (is temporary)I use a link shortener to clean up that nasty URL before sharing.• I’ve always liked bit.ly
Inside Your G+ Hangout
The Uber.la Quick-Guide to Google+ (plus)
by John McElhenney@jmacofearth / uber.lacc with attribution
Top Controls• Audio – On and Mute• Video – On and Off• Settings (connection speed and stuff)• Exit – end the hangout
Hangout Options• Chat – opens the chat window• Invite – add others to the conversation• Screenshare – show others what’s on
your screen• Slideshare (app to view PPT docs)• YouTube (share a video together)• Lower Third (your own title bar)• Google Docs (the super power of G+)• Cacoo (visual thinking)• Add app (more apps in Hangouts)
The ChatWhat you’ll look like to others
Who Is Speaking (focus)• Hangout will attempt to show the
video of who is speaking• You can click on someone’s picture
and their video will be kept in focus• Click on the selected video and Google
will begin the auto-focus feature again