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.

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Your G+ Profile

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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.

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Your G+ Circles

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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

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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)

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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

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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