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From a broader perspective, it will be interesting to see if Google+ lives up to the hype and expectations of being the ‘Facebook for the Enterprise’. Google says it plans to add several other, more consumer-focused features, include What’s Hot, which lets users keep tabs on the most popular posts of the moment. A visualization tool, called Ripples is also in the works, and will allow Google+ users to see how conversations unfold.
Google+ has finally opened up business profiles to its Google Apps for Business users, presumably in an effort to roll out any kinks before throwing the doors open to the world. Being first at bat can have intangible benefits on the Internet, including a valuable backlink to your company website from your Google+ profile. Here's how to join this limited group of users and make the most of your Google+ profile before everyone else.
Google on Thursday announced a number of updates to its Google+ social network, including the ability to access the service via Google Apps. Google+ is also getting a trending topics of sorts called "What's Hot," a feature that will let you track the popularity of posts, and a photo-editing tool. On the Google Apps front, those who use the service for school, work, or at home can now integrate with Google+.
Before you enable Google+ for users in your organization, make sure you review the considerations for enabling the service. You can enable Google+ for all versions of Google Apps.
It will be fun to watch the growth of Google+ in the coming days as it rolls out to the millions of businesses and organizations that use Google Apps. Many of the most avid users of Google products will soon be using Google+ for the first time. And think of how useful this will be (from the Official Google Enterprise Blog): In addition to sharing publicly or with your circles, you’ll also have the option to share with everyone in your organization, even if you haven’t added all of those people to a circle.
Google has announced a host of new features for Google+, including the ability to use Google+ from a Google Apps account. When Google made Google+ available to all users earlier this fall, people who use Google Apps for work or personal use were left out in the cold. This was frustrating for many users, who, like me, use Google Apps to control the email account on their own domain name.
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Google announced yesterday on their blog that Google+ will now work with Google Apps, meaning businesses and schools that use Google Apps for email can get onto Google Plus and all the sharing it offers. This is a big step in getting the business world online for internal communications.
While the bulk of us have been enjoying Google+ from our personal accounts for a few months now, those who exclusively use Google Apps (GApps) have been left in the dark... until today. Google+ is now open to all GApps users, and it even brings some new features for some users.
G+ is really just so usable that I can actually imagine groups/teams using it to share and work and really sticking with it. In short, good move Google -- bravo! I hope the G+ development team starts using this productivity software themselves... that'll probably be the best way for the "Apps/G+" integration to get better and succeed over the long term.
You’ve waited and you’ve wanted and now it’s finally here. Google Apps accounts are now available to Google+, according to a post on the Google Enterprise blog.
Since the day Google+ launched in late June, we've wanted Google+ profiles linked to our Google Apps accounts, and now we can. The process took nearly four months because "It took more technical work than we expected to bring Google+ to Google Apps, and we thank you for your patience," according to the official post on the Google Enterprise blog.
Google Apps fans, today we’re ready to add you to our circles. Google+ makes sharing on the web more like sharing in the real world, and now Google+ is available to people who use Google Apps at college, at work or at home. Starting now you can manually turn on Google+ for your organization. Once Google+ is turned on, your users will just need to sign up at google.com/+ to get started. For customers who use Google Apps for Business or the free version of Google Apps and who have chosen to automatically enable new services, Google+ will automatically become available to all of your users over the next several days.*
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