Google Plus First Look: a tip-packed, comprehensive look at Google+

Ralph Roberts

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Written in plain but entertaining English by the author of over 100 books and a few zillion Internet posts
Leads you gently through understanding how Plus works and shows you tons of examples of how to make it work for you
Helps you not only master Plus but also develop strategies to do whatever you desire to accomplish on this great new social media network

Book Details

Language : English
Paperback : 208 pages [ 235mm x 191mm ]
Release Date : November 2011
ISBN : 1849685347
ISBN 13 : 978-1-84968-534-4
Author(s) : Ralph Roberts
Topics and Technologies : All Books, Google, Enterprise

Preface
Chapter 1: Joining Plus and What to Do First
Chapter 2: Sorting Everyone into Circles
Chapter 3: Hanging Out
Chapter 4: Streaming
Chapter 5: Sharing Media
Chapter 6: Mobile and Games
Chapter 7: Promoting on Plus the Right Way
Appendix
Index

Preface

Chapter 1: Joining Plus and What to Do First

What is Plus?

Features of Plus

Why join Google Plus?
How to join Plus

Getting a Google Account
Getting a Plus Membership

Privacy concerns
Profiles
What we learned

Chapter 2: Sorting Everyone into Circles

Tips on using Plus

How to post
Text emphasis
Editing and deleting
Other people's posts
Shortcuts
Sending a private message
Editing your posts
What's not to like about pluses?

The basics of Circles

Who's following whom?
Adding people to your Circles
Notifications

Creating new Circles
Circles for Friends, Acquaintances, and Family
Mastering circle maintenance

Sorting Circles
Adding people who've added you
Reordering Circles
Sorting members of a circle
Circle editing shortcuts
Private Circles

Following celebrities and others
What we learned

Chapter 3: Hanging Out

What Are Hangouts?
Selecting and setting up a webcam
Starting your own Hangout
Joining existing Hangouts
Hanging out from YouTube
What we learned

Chapter 4: Streaming

Changelog
How the Stream works
Controlling what we see
Posting and Targeting

Targeting
Posting your own stuff
Posting Other types of documents
Posting from the web
Archiving your posts
Posting from another website

What we learned

Chapter 5: Sharing Media

Preparing photos for Plus
Uploading and captioning Photos

Adding more than one photo to posts
Posting photos from your phone

Using the Photos section
Preparing videos for Plus
Uploading and captioning videos

Uploading directly to Plus
Sharing a YouTube video
Using automatically uploaded videos from your phone

What we learned

Chapter 6: Mobile and Games

Getting mobile access to Plus on phones or tablets

SMS only

Streaming
Photos
Circles
Messenger
Profile
Notifications
Settings
Games on Plus
What we learned

Chapter 7: Promoting on Plus the Right Way

Netiquette
Considerate marketing is effective marketing
Content is king
A marketing secret
Maximizing article views
Driving visitors to your website
Business and organization accounts
Starting circle groups
Google+ pages
What we learned
Conclusion

Appendix

Third-party websites
Extensions

Index

Ralph Roberts

Ralph Roberts is a decorated Vietnam Veteran and worked with NASA during the Apollo moon program. He built his first personal computer in 1976 and has been writing about them and on them since his first published article “Down with Typewriters” in 1978. He has written over 100 books along with thousands of articles and short stories. His best sellers include the first U.S. book on computer viruses (which resulted in several appearances on national TV) and Classic Cooking with Coca-Cola®, a cookbook that has been in continuous print for the past 17 years and sold half a million copies. He is also a video producer with over 100 DVD titles now for sale nationally on places such as Amazon.com. He has also produced hundreds of hours of video for local TV in the Western North Carolina area and sold scripts to Hollywood producers. Previously for Packt, Ralph wrote Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting and Google App Inventor. Ralph and his wife, Pat, live on a farm in the mountains of Western North Carolina with two horses.

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What you will learn from this book

The basics of Plus
The easiest but most productive methods of coming up to speed on this fun-packed, powerful new kind of social network
Getting everyone in circles
Working with built-in video chat and related features
Using Google+ on your mobile
Promoting on Plus

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In Detail

Start your social media experience afresh, having the most fun you possibly can sitting at a computer or holding your smart phone.

Whether restarting your social media participation from another network (doing it right and with a lot more control this time) or just jumping in for the first time, this book leads you triumphantly through Plus. Like Plus itself, the book is fun, exciting, and condenses everything you need for maximizing enjoyment in an easily readable format with tons of informative illustrations.

Google Plus First Look shows you how to join Plus and the kind of initial setup that guarantees a successful and fun-filled experience. The second chapter shows you Circles, Google’s innovative bit of genius that has taken social networking to a new level of control over our own interactions. We’ll see (and I do mean see) how Hangouts (video conferencing) works, and master Streams (where posts go). Sharing photos and video is the easiest you’ve ever seen, and you will see it in Chapter 5. Nor do you have to leave Plus at home, in Chapter 6 we take our social networking with us on our smartphones. Photos and videos upload automatically, ready for sharing. Finally, we learn how to promote things the right way, the polite way on Plus. This book serves as an indispensible reference to all that and more.

Approach

Through over 100 books, mostly computer-related, the author has mastered a fun but information packed style that gives you exactly what you want — up to speed on Plus with minimal effort and maximum results.

Who this book is for

Google+ or Plus (the terms are interchangeable) was written for everyone. This book mirrors that concept and is written for everyone — from us techheads (early adopters) to delightful old Aunt Mable and the rest of the Thursday Night Bridge Club. Because social networking exists for all people and we are all people — all of us are plusses on Plus.