business corner
Local man Mick Holloway runs a successful business
networking company. This month he is sharing with us
a feature on the benefits to business of current trends.
No. 4 – google+
L
ast month I introduced Google+. In a sentence, Google know
‘Social is Key’ and Google+ is all about being social. Google+ makes
it easy, very easy, to publish content rich information and get your
messages in front of potential customers. This month I’d like to introduce
some of the features of the Google+ web site.
Stream - Simply a news feed of the latest content shared by the people
you’re connected to on Google+, same as Facebook’s news feed. Posts
are listed by age, you can “like” a post using google’s “+1”. You can share
posts with people you’re connected to. You can post status updates via
the “Share what’s new...” box. And sharing pictures, video and web links
is ... trivial.
Circles – A crushingly simple way to organise your connections into
social groups, “Professional”, “Family”, “Friends” etc. This way Google
gives you more control over who see’s your output and your content,
by sharing posts only to members of a circle. This works in both
directions, you can control what content appears in your “stream” using
Circles. Making sharing online more like sharing in real life - different
conversations with different people.
Hangouts – Easy, quick video conferencing with up to 9 other people.
Organised, pre-arranged or casual by inviting people in your Circles
that are already on line. Cool enough, but recent developments include
– Integration with Google Docs, Sharing PC screens and a communal
Sketchpad.
Mobile - Google+ has a mobile app (Google own the Android
Operating System). As well as Hangouts and Stream, two interesting
app’s are – Messenger which allows a number of separate conversations
to run simultaneously in one simple group chat. Instant Upload which
seamlessly and instantly uploads pictures to a private Google+ album,
similar to Apple’s iCloud, but using DropBox.
Searching – And finally Google+
inevitably has excellent search
functionality, some say its
the next Google!!
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June 2013
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