GooglePlus Expertise

Does any of this sound familiar? That’s just dumb. No one’s over there. Who needs another social network? Yep, many people, including me, w

Google+ isn't only a social network. It's the very backbone (and future) of Google itself. As Brian Clark wrote yesterday, Author Rank is the real deal.

What latest gadgets and gizmos are going to change your classroom in 2013? It’s hard to know exactly what will catch on and what won’t, but the following list showcases some of the emerging new tec...

Google Plus is Google - the social layer explained!
This video gives you an overview of Google+ and how the social layer goes across so many of Google's…

HelloSign is a brand new service from HelloFax, the death-to-paper company that's been eliminating costly and inefficient paper trails for about a year and a half. HelloFax, a Y Combinator alum, wa...

Shortly after Twitter launched its new — and controversial — Vine service, Twitter software engineer and resourceful Github member Esten H. created a way to turn Vines into the animated GIFs we...

If you've fallen in love with the feature on your smartphone, you can have it on your PC as well—if you're willing to switch browsers.

Step by step instructions for easily sharing your Vine videos to Google+.

Google continues to tweak its Google+ social media platform as the company seeks to gain traction among businesses.

Your Google Plus network is a powerful recommendation engine. Google can cross-reference your search with that of people in your Google network and recommend

Last September I chronicled the growth of the Slingshot SEO Google+ page in which we hit critical mass around 1,000 followers resulting in an exponential growth

On January 15th I had the great pleasure to get to do a video hangout with Leo Widrich, one of the main guys behind the well-loved social media tool Buffer. I reached out to Leo because I’ve been following him for a while on social media and reading his blog. I’ve been seeing Buffer’s awesome growth over the past year (I even became a paying member recently), so I was interested to get Leo’s take on marketing, especially content marketing.

Google Plus communities were released on December 6th, 2012 and many in the social media industry recognized this could be a game changer for Google.

Jaana Nyström has shared a Circle with everyone and recommends 99 people or pages to you. Check this Shared Circle and find interesting people with CircleCount.com.

Using Communities as your personal / communal reference center!

People new to Hangouts and Hangouts on Air (HoA) are often confused about what it means to "join" a Hangout. It's no wonder, since the meaning varies with the context.

A list of 38 fantastic marketing blogs any marketer should add to their reading list.

A few months ago +Ronnie Bincer  and I were discussing the pros and cons of organizing Hangouts using Google+ Events versus Google Calendar (check out our results). As much as I like Events tool, I still believe Google Calendar is the easiest way to schedule a regular Hangouts for one simple reason:

Everyone understands how calendars work!

According to a recent report, Google Plus is now the second most popular social media platform, ahead of Twitter, but are governments using it to their advantage?

2012 was a year of opening doors to learning on the web for more and more students each day.

With the web, students and teachers are using new technology and devices to collaborate with each other in class, from home, and around the world. We want Google in Education to help open more doors and we’re pleased to announce there are now 2,000 schools using Chromebooks for Education–twice as many as 3 months ago.

And with several Chrome devices available today, there is a device for any school, any student, anywhere.

Chromium, the open source web browser project that shares much of the same code and features as Google Chrome, has been updated for Windows to include a new notification center.

The ...

This is the final post of a four-part series detailing the best practices for completing the process of Going Google.

Google announced on Thursday it is expanding its Google Apps help site to include more than just details about its 24/7 phone support. The site now also offers documentation, training, ...

Beautiful way to see Google+ photo posts: Change your G+ ID into the URL and see yours!