GooglePlus Expertise

Douglas Rushkoff says the social networking site used to be useful, but has lost his trust with a feature that misrepresents his "likes" without his consent

Ripples is a data visualisation graph built-in to Google+, and is enabled when a user reshares a post publicly.

Population rate per country (overall) - CircleCount.com

All the social networks have been hacked recently... except Google+.

First, we learned that Eastern European gangs hacked both Facebook and Twitter (as…

According to a GlobalWebIndex report, Google+ is now the second most used social platform beating even Twitter and LinkedIn. It is a platform that marketers cannot ignore.

Some bloggers like to portray Google’s social efforts as a ghost town, but the reality is that couldn’t be farther from the truth.

On many occasions, I’ll share a piece of content across platforms only to wake up to 5-10 Twitter retweets, 20-30 Faceboook likes, and a staggering 300 +1s, 500 shares, and 180 comments on Google+.’

Unearth Gmail's best-kept secrets to work faster, plow through your inbox, and put more controls at your fingertips.

The update, meant to bring the Web and Chrome apps in line with features already available on TweetDeck's AIR app, will let users set a variety of column search criteria. Read this article by Daniel Terdiman on CNET News.

You can share a whole folder, a doc or a presentation with a circle or a community and let the people view or EDIT:
Choose "Anyone with the link" on the folder and all docs inside, that lets those in the circle or community view or edit the doc how and when they see best.  No more time zone problems.

Cyberstalkers have been on the front page of tabloids recently, reporting on the harassment of celebrities such as Alyson Hannigan and Avril Lavigne.

One of the things I find really great about Google is how it all connects together to make it really easy for a business to 'claim their spot' here are a few ways you can do this easily and quickly.

When sharing a link, use the ‘link box’. It makes the post look much nicer, without the URL showing in the text.  Unless...

Today, I am adding to the list of my role models who I had the opportunity to interview thanks to the social Web. If you, like me, spend most of your dat reading/writing/talking about the world of ...

Learn how to create a customised Tweet This -link for your blog post. Tweet This -link is a powerful new way to share a custom message from your posts.

In The Cogs of the G+ Machine

Good morning G+. Each day, so many of us spend time and energy here, sensing that in the free flow of information and idea…

I want to let you in on a little secret about Copyblogger. We are very competitive. Not in a "we win, you lose" sense, more of the simple "we want to be

Google has added file previews to Google Drive, a nifty feature which will help users quickly find the document they want.

Consider Google+ as not a social network, but rather, a social backplane.

The term “backplane” is an IT term that means something like “the hardware connecting communications be...

In 2012, Australia was the most popular travel destination on Facebook, Google+ and Instagram. In 2013, Tourism Australia has an ambitious goal to use the p

What is link litter? 

 Dropping a link with no explanation or text. Just the title of the article and the link.

Online reputation management teams have to optimize their content through such keywords so that positive content will be returned for the negative searches.

Jade Wang from Google gave a tip in a Google Business Help thread on how to expedite the uploading and listing of photos on your Google Business Maps listing page.

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As well as finding your niche and being persistent, as +Jaana Nyström told me early on, very often people are collaborating on Google+ in formal or informal teams.