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If you aren't yet using Google+, or aren't logging in regularly, the social network may seem a bit intimidating. It's different from Facebook in a lot of ways, and there are a number of features and nuances that may not be obvious how to use or what you're supposed to do.

These are perfectly understandable stumbling blocks to using and getting value out of Google+. The thing is, particularly if you're in business, Google+ is rapidly developing as the premiere network!

Clean out your inbox constantly.

If you don’t want to use Google+ anymore, that’s OK. You can delete your profile at any time. And you’ll still be able to use other Google products like Gmail and Google Search.

Are you addicted to browser extensions?

It would seem that I am! Over the years, I’ve discovered some amazing extensions that enhance my productivity and effectiveness, and I thought it was time that I share them with you.

When you're signing in to a Google account from a different country, Google asks you to confirm your identity. You can enter your recovery email address or phone number, enter a verification code received in an SMS messages or voice call and now you can enter a code generated by your Android device.

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Launched in December 2012, the communities tool has become one of the most vibrant and popular features on the Google Plus platform. Like Facebook groups, communities usually focus on a particular topic (some of the most popular communities include Science,Photographers, and Space).

Anyone can launch a community, thereby becoming a moderator, and then that person can approve other users as moderators as well. Moderators have broad administrative powers that allow them to delete posts (those that are off topic or spam), create subcategories (the Landscape Photography community has more than 10), and pin posts to the top of the page so they can gain more visibility.

"I'm ashamed to admit that I've been shying away from Google+ for far too long.

Despite my SEO-crazed friends begging me to become an active user, I just didn't want "the hassle" of using yet another social network. 

However, with around an eighth of the users that Facebook has, Google+ is rapidly expanding its popularity. Praised typically for the benefits it can provide to one's search rankings, this underused social network is the future of social media, especially for businesses."

When you’re chatting with your friends and family, you want your conversations easily accessible, not buried in browser windows. Today, we’re introducing the Hangouts Chrome App for Chrome OS and Windows -- a simpler, faster way to use Hangouts on your computer alongside whatever else you’re doing.

The new app brings the best of Hangouts to your desktop, plus some improvements we think you’ll love:

Instead of instilling policies to try to prevent team members from using social media at work, more and more companies are incorporating their employees’ social media enthusiasm into their marketing.

Google+ isn't dying anytime soon, says Google's new head of social media David Besbris. 

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With more than 300 million monthly active users, the vision for Google+ is to make it a destination for meaningful conversations online.

In this short video I show you the only way to import your LinkedIn connections into Google+ in bulk. If you’re familiar with my previous post onimporting Facebook to Google+, the process here is similar.

Unlike other methods for importing your LinkedIn contacts which require you to add each contact individually, I use Circloscope which enables you to add all of your connections to a Google+ circle in seconds. It’s a massive time saver.

Check out the short video and/or read through the tutorial below. If you have any questions, just let me know in the comments!

Much like a mission statement provides direction, a social media policy establishes guidelines on how to represent your brand on various social networks.

Google on Thursday announced that it has acquired social polling startup Polar, in an effort to boost up its social networking offering Google+.

When thinking of ways to promote your content, have you considered Google+ Hangouts? Here are some reasons you should, and tips on how to use this useful tool.