Learning Google+? This document will help you get up-to-speed quickly. from http://uber.la by John McElhenney @jmacofearth www.uber.la

1. The Uber.la Quick-Guide to Google+ (plus)
your wall
your profile
your circles
your hangout
June 23, 2012
Presented by John McElhenney
@jmacofearth / uber.la
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2. The Uber.la Quick-Guide to Google+ (plus)
Home is the equivalent to your FB wall. Your G+ Wall
Top Tabs (navigate different views).
• Friends
• Family
• More
• Self (your wall in FB)
Left Nav
• Home (news feed)
• Profile (your contact info and bio)
• Explore (what Google likes)
• Hangouts (video chat w/ the world)
• Photos (the breakaway hit on G+)
• Circles (organizing your contacts)
• Local (mapping things near you)
• Games (you know, the social kind)
• More… (of course, it’s Google!)
Sharing something
Photo, Video, Link buttons
Freeform entry field
Put it in your Google+ stream
Control the distribution of your
broadcast by Circles, Individuals or the
wide-open PUBLIC.
Right Column (currently AD free)
• Trending
• Hangouts
• You Might Like
Plenty of room over there for some FB-
like ads. At the moment, Google doesn’t
need to generate AD revenue directly by John McElhenney
from G+. But @jmacofearth / uber.la
Local, Games, Trending, and You Might
Like are potential sources.
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3. The Uber.la Quick-Guide to Google+ (plus)
The Black Google Navigation Bar Your G+ Profile
(unusual for Google to set our priorities
for us, I’d drop the grey ones to the far
right, how would you organize it?)
• + John
• Search
• Images
• Maps
• Play
• YouTube
• News
• Gmail
• Drive
• Calendar
Top Tabs (navigate different views).
• Posts (your output)
• About (your profile)
• Photos (what photos you’ve shared)
• Videos (what videos you’ve shared)
• +1’s (what are you plussing?)
About
A bit like your LinkedIn profile for your
G+ and all other G-connections. Your
Google Profile is showing up all over the
web. Make sure you are putting your
best foot forward.
by John McElhenney
@jmacofearth / uber.la
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4. The Uber.la Quick-Guide to Google+ (plus)
Your G+ Circles
Top Tabs (navigate different views).
• Your circles (who you’d added)
• Have you in circles (who’s added you)
• Find people (find more people to
Follow)
• Relevance (sort your contacts)
Contacts
• Your friends
• People you might want to add as
friends
• Rolling over a contact will show
the circles they are included in
Your Circles
The Google concept of
managing your contacts via “circles”
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@jmacofearth / uber.la
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5. The Uber.la Quick-Guide to Google+ (plus)
Public vs. Private in G+ Circles
Google+ can span your social networks:
do you want to be divided or connected?
Conceptually* Private Layer
*Any electronic communication can be captured
and rebroadcast. If you type it, it can be published
on a roadside billboard. Know your network before
you share controversial or private information.
Txt and IM Twitter DM Email to Friends FB (privacy high)
(1 to 1) (1 to 1) (1 to 1 / 1 to many) (1 to many)
Blogging Twitter Email to Public FB (privacy low)
(1 to many) (1 to many) (1 to many) (1 to many)
Public Layer
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6. The Uber.la Quick-Guide to Google+ (plus)
Far Right Nav (for wide monitors) Starting a G+ Hangout
• Start a hangout button
• Brings up large Start a Hangout
window, to invite friends
• Add more people gives you larger
access to add complete CIRCLES of
contacts
• Warning: PUBLIC ads your hangout to
the public stream, anyone can join
• Once you have made a hangout public
you cannot change it back to private
Starting with Chat
Initiating the conversation in the chat
window allows you to check if the person
is available and willing to Hangout.
• Clicking on a name brings up a text
chat window
• Hangout icon starts a hangout with
only this person
• Phone icon starts a Skype-like voice
chat
Your Video
What you’ll look like to others
The URL (is temporary)
I use a link shortener to clean up that
nasty URL before sharing.
• I’ve always liked bit.ly
Initiate voice chat
initiate a hangout by John McElhenney
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7. The Uber.la Quick-Guide to Google+ (plus)
Top Controls Inside Your G+ Hangout
• Audio – On and Mute
• Video – On and Off
• Settings (connection speed and stuff)
• Exit – end the hangout
Hangout Options
• Chat – opens the chat window
• Invite – add others to the
conversation
• Screenshare – show others what’s on
your screen
• Slideshare (app to view PPT docs)
• YouTube (share a video together)
• Lower Third (your own title bar)
• Google Docs (the super power of G+)
• Cacoo (visual thinking)
• Add app (more apps in Hangouts)
The Chat
What you’ll look like to others
Who Is Speaking (focus)
• Hangout will attempt to show the
video of who is speaking
• You can click on someone’s picture
and their video will be kept in focus
• Click on the selected video and Google
will begin the auto-focus feature again
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