GooglePlus Expertise

Google Plus best practices for brands; HootSuite's 9 tips for effectively engaging with your community.

Google has updated its Hangouts app for Android. Version 1.1 adds many improvements to Google's new messaging platform, and it is rolling out slowly.

When people say you should write for the user, they mean well. In spirit, I completely agree. But in practice, it usually goes dreadfully wrong.

Using Blogger as the "home base" for your long-term, branded content enables you to establish your content strategy, take advantage of search engine structured content and social sharing, and still build authority by sharing and engaging on Google+.

Below I’ve sourced a few pages from brands that are doing Google+ really well, but before that let me just tell you that the growth of sharing on Google+ is roughly 18.5% per month, which is a great deal more than Facebook’s 9.3%.

That’s phenomenal growth, growth that we should all want to be part of.

We will review how to access Google+ Ripples, as well as explore some impressive ways to use Ripples to benefit your business.

Social media is one of the most powerful new tools for executives. It helps you understand customers, markets, and the competition. It can make you better at what you do. Few CEOs or other executives use social media, but they should.

How to be the best Google+ Community member you can be. Complete guide to being a member of a Google+ Community.

Privacy protection in the apps we use on a daily basis has been a big topic of conversation following accusations that Google and other large tech companies were working with government agencies to...

The operative concept here is “because it’s Google”.

By being tied into the biggest search engine in the world, Google is able to intrinsically pull results from other Google properties, such as YouTube, especially, but also from all other social platforms (whereas the locations such as Facebook are pretty much a “walled garden.

Want to learn more about Google Plus? Here is how it compares to Facebook, how to get more followers, what kind of content is shared most and how often to post

Google has completely updated and revamped the look and feel of the Google AdWords Help center.This is a huge visual update from the previous version, which was much more text based.

Without great traffic to your blog site, your posts will not be get read, regardless of the quality of your articles.

Google+ has massive opportunities to promote your blog, and drive traffic to it. 

Learn how to set up your business Google Places and Google Plus Pages, understand the differences and how you'll benefit from each.

LOS ANGELES - Every morning at 8:30 a.m. PT, KTTV Fox11 LA escorts celebrity guests from its 'Good Day, L.A.' show to also do a video 'Google Hangout on Air' in the newsroom, to interact directly with viewers.

Google+ may never be a Facebook killer, but great features are making it an increasingly comfortable place to hangout.

Chromebook sales are up amid a decline in the overall PC market. Low prices have helped. If this sounds like Netbook 2.0, it’s not: Chromebooks are a totally different beast and will likely enjoy a long-term market, unlike the lowly netbook.

These are suggestions and guidelines for those of you want to expand your reach, create valuable connections, and perhaps even establish yourself as an authority in your field.

Windows users can now download and enable the Chrome App Launcher, giving them instant access to common Web-based Google services such as the Chrome browser, Gmail, Google Drive and ...

Don't just dump a link in your Google+ post!

Google+ picked up a facelift and a big group of new features back at Google I/O 2013, and two of them -- Auto Awesome and Auto Enhance -- have opened up cool new photography possibilities on the network.