What is Google Plus

Google Plus
Peta Hopkins – http://innvate.blogspot.com

What is it?
Social networking site
Sharing content
Links
Photos
Video
Communicate
Commenting
Chat
Video conferencing
Field trial
Invitations

Major Features
Sparks
Suggested articles on topics
Easily shared
Circles
Social circles
Designate who you share content with
Drag and drop
Streams
Yours
Circles
Public

Mobile vs Desktop
Interfaces
Desktop version of site
Mobile version of site
Android & iPhone apps
Desktop - Hangouts
Group video chat
Games
Photo & Video Uploads

Mobile vs Desktop
Mobile
Checkins
Instant photo uploads
Huddles – group messaging

How does it compare with Facebook and Twitter
Feature sets
Lauren Dugan’s Infographic – How is Google+ like Twitter and Facebook?
http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/how-is-google-like-twitter-and-facebook-infographic_b11782
http://goo.gl/RmCYP
July 22 2011

Business Interests
Customer Service
Hangouts to meet with customers and deliver help desk services
Business Profiles
Driving web traffic
Integration with other Google products
One-stop-shop productivity hub?
Larry Kim’s The Social Media Showdown: Google+ Beating LinkedIn, Closing In On Twitter, Facebook
Infographic reported 15.42% of traffic coming from Google+
http://goo.gl/0DFof
[1 August 2011]

Conversations
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/08/rant-googles-real-names-policy-is-evil/
http://goo.gl/Y4zXC
Real Names Policy
A challenge for those with genuine online identities that are not real names
Challenges & Speculation
Competition in the market
http://goo.gl/afwnz

Innovations
Google Plus Counter http://gpc.fm/ created by Ralf Rottmann
Chrome Extensions for Google Plus

What do you think?
No Ads  - but will that last?
Needs APIs – to make sharing easier

Follow up on these
Google Plus – Scoop It - http://www.scoop.it/t/all-google-plus
Axel Aigret’s collection of articleshttp://goo.gl/6ftS1
Peta’sDiigo links tagged google+ - http://www.diigo.com/user/petahopkins/google%2Bhttp://goo.gl/p8w38
Google+ topic on Quora - http://www.quora.com/Google+
Questions and answershttp://goo.gl/9slVg

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Website
http://smcgoldcoast.com
Twitter
@SMCGC
Facebook Page - http://www.facebook.com/smcgc

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What is Google Plus

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