UCISA Social Media for Training - What Does Google+ Mean for Me?
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What Does Google+ Mean for Me? +Martin Hamilton, Loughborough University +Ross Mahon, Google UCISA Using Social Media for Training event #UCISASoMe These slides: http://goo.gl/81Dyi
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These are the slides from my talk on Google+ at the UCISA "Social Media in Training" event, hosted by the University of Salford at MediaCityUK in April 2012. For more information please see http://lanyrd.com/cfrkc and http://martinh.net
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What Does Google+ Mean for Me?
+Martin Hamilton, Loughborough University +Ross Mahon, Google UCISA Using Social Media for Training event #UCISASoMe These slides: http://goo.gl/81Dyi
What is Google+ ?
Circles help you organize everyone according to your real life connections
Hangouts let up to 10 people video conference at no charge
Hangouts with Extras - this is a testbed for new features
Stream lets you have conversations and share information with circles
Search allows you to search Google+ posts, Google+ people, and the web
Instant Upload automatically sends photos and videos to a private album
Messenger allows you to bring people together for group mobile messaging
Profile lets you control how you apear on Google services across the web
Google+ Pages shared spaces for brands, organizations etc
Why Should I Care?
0 to 170m users in 1 year ~120 integrations with other Google products 850K Android activations per day Available with institutional Google Apps domains
Joining Google+
Creating a Profile
Google+ is Just Beginning
Gmail
YouTube
Gmail Search
Privacy on Google+
Google Confidential and Proprietary
Google+ in Education Teaching & learning, research, support
Create a brand presence with Pages
A lightweight blog?
Some Education Use Cases
Remote IT support (platform neutral) Engaging with pre-sessional students, alumni, student clubs and societies Online tutorial groups, part time distance learners, working over multiple campuses Inter-institutional research collaboration, developing papers and funding proposals
Google+ for Apps Domains
Optional - users have to sign up individually Can share posts with the whole domain, e.g. everyone at Loughborough University Circles != Groups Death of the VLE predicted :-)
Google Confidential and Proprietary
Wrapping Up
Conclusions
Google+ is "social spine", cutting across the whole range of Google services Nuanced approach to privacy and sharing Google are very keen to develop the service based on your feedback You (still) ain't seen nothing yet!
Search, plus Your World
Following Sharing with Google+ Ripples
What Does Google+ Mean for Me?
+Martin Hamilton, Loughborough University +Ross Mahon, Google UCISA Using Social Media for Training event #UCISASoMe These slides: http://goo.gl/81Dyi
