SIG Notes

A summary of topics discussed at the Internet SIG.

Archive for the tag “Google Plus”

Getting Started With Circles

Circles are Googgle Plus’s system for organizing the people you want to share with. You can organize people into groups like “Family”, “friend”and “co-workers”. You may share with everyone, a small group or one person.

Instructions

Hangouts

Google+ Profiles

Google Plus Notifications

Unfortunately when you start with Google+ the default notification settings are to send you an email every time anything happens in your stream. I do not like this at all so I went to the Google+ and I turned off all email notification. There is enough noise in email as it is and Google has a better way of getting notifications and that is an alert box in the upper right corner of Gmail and Google+. Read more…

Why Use Google+?

Google+ Pages

Google+ Page give business and brand the ability to keep in contact with customers or clients… Read more…

Mobile

Google+ Mobile is an app for Android Phones but soon to iPhones and others that lets you share to Google+ from anywhere. Get updates from your circles in the stream. Do a check-ins from your location to let you friends know where you are. Read more…

Plus 1

+1 is just a like button for a webpage or post. + 1′s are displayed on the page or post and also in your profile.  Read more…

Profiles

Google Profiles is actually a very old, at least a couple of years. Choose and control what you want others to know about you. You can share more with some Circles than others. Google has made your privacy number one business. You control who sees what.

About Profiles

Some people including myself are using profiles as a personal home-page.

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Sparks

Sparks brings you stories on the things you love from all across the Web. In other words, news feeds on any topics. You may find stores in Sparks that you may want to share in your stream. Read more…

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