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Suzie Nestico

Google Plus Tips & Shortcuts - 11 views

www.localseoguide.com/google-plus-shortcuts-tips

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  • According to Picasa, If you’ve signed up for Google+ photos up to 2048 x 2048 pixels and videos up to 15 minutes won’t count towards your free storage. (hat tip to Greg Grothaus)
  • To add people who have added you to their circles, but you haven’t add them, go to the “People who’ve added you” tab and select “Not yet in circles” from the sort menu.  All the people not in your circles will be listed first (hat tip to Owen Prater)
  • Right click on a circle and select “View circle in tab”. This is a terrific way to see who’s in a circle and allows you to do neat things like drag all the people inside it to another circle.
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  • If you have a lot of Circles and/or a lot of people in your various Circles views (e.g. “People in your circles”, “People who’ve added you”, etc.”), Mac users can use the pinch functionality to make the Circles section smaller so you can view all of your Circles.
  • Order of Circles in Left-Hand Nav: Default Circles appear first in this order – Friends, Family, Following, and Acquaintances. Then your personal circles are arranged alphabetically. You can rename any of the circles, including the default ones, and renaming a default one makes it part of the normal alphabetized list. Put an underscore in front of one that you want at the top of the list. You could also delete the default circles and start over in the order that you want.(hat tip to Donna Fontenont and Joe Hall)
  • Suzie Nestico on 04 Jul 11
     
    List of links and shortcuts for working/playing with the various functions and features of Google+
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Google+ could make Twitter the next Myspace | VentureBeat - 4 views

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  • Although Twitter is growing (having just hit 200 million tweets a day), Twitter has left itself open to be displaced with a slow pace of adding features. Even newly returned founder Jack Dorsey has said that it was too difficult for “normal” people to use Twitter.
  • Google+ is decidedly in the Twitter camp — meaning you can follow anyone, including Google CEO Larry Page. Google+ lets you see Page’s posts and “like” his photos of kite surfing in Alaska. When posting on Google+, it forces users to select specific social circles they are posting to, which includes “everyone” as an option that mimics a Twitter-style broadcast. I
  • There are two different types of social networks, private and public — each defined by its default privacy setting. Facebook is by default private and meant to connect actual friends. Twitter by default is public and anyone can follow anyone else.
  • Suzie Nestico on 04 Jul 11
     
    Interesting article found on Google+ via @markwagner
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9 Reasons to Switch from Facebook to Google+ | PCWorld - 11 views

www.pcworld.com/...h_from_facebook_to_google.html

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  • Suzie Nestico on 04 Jul 11
     
    Compares Google+ and Facebook.
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Google Plus: Is This the Social Tool Schools Have Been Waiting For? - 15 views

www.readwriteweb.com/...google_plus_education.php

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  • Will schools block Google+? Or will the finely-tuned privacy controls it offers trump schools', parents', and politicians' concerns?
  • Suzie Nestico on 04 Jul 11
     
    To use or not to use in schools? The +'s and -'s of Google+ integration into Google Apps for EDU
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