These are the slides from my talk on Google+ with Google’s William Florance at the UCISA Using Social Media to Communicate workshop. You can find out more and watch a video of the talk at http://blog.martinh.net/2012/01/making-most-of-google.html

1. Making the Most of Google+
+Martin Hamilton, Loughborough University
+William Florance, Google
UCISA Using Social Media to Communicate event
#ucsoc12
These slides: http://goo.gl/wiya9

2. What is Google+ ?
Circles help you organize everyone according to your real life connections
Hangouts let up to 10 people video conference at no charge
Hangouts with Extras let you share Google Docs or your screen as well
Stream lets you have conversations and share information with circles
Search allows you to search Google+ posts, Google+ people, and the web
Profile is the way you represent yourself on Google products across the web
Instant Upload automatically sends photos and videos to a private album
Messenger allows you to bring people together for group mobile messaging
Google+ Pages allow you to create a Google+ page for your organization

3. Joining Google+

4. Creating a Profile

5. Your Google Profile

6. Mobile as 1st Class Citizen
● Participate in Hangouts
● Location based services
● Instant upload of photos and
videos
● 700,000 Android activations
per day
○ Google+ signup as part of
Ice Cream Sandwich
activation

7. Privacy on Google+

8. Google+ is Just Beginning
YouTube
Gmail
Search
Gmail

9. Google+ in Education
Teaching & learning, research, support
Google Confidential and Proprietary

10. Create a brand presence
with Pages

11. A lightweight blog?

12. Some Education Use Cases
● Remote IT support (platform neutral)
● Engaging with pre-sessional students, alumni etc
● Online tutorial groups, part time distance learners,
multiple campuses
● Inter-institutional research collaboration, developing
papers and funding proposals
● Promoting your "brand"
● Student clubs and societies

13. Google+ for Apps Domains
● Entirely voluntary - domain admin has to enable, and
users have to opt in
● Can share posts with the whole domain, e.g.
everyone at Loughborough University
● Circles != Groups
● Death of the VLE predicted :-)

14. Online Collaboration Pilot

15. Future Directions

16. Wrapping Up
Google Confidential and Proprietary

17. Conclusions
● Google+ isn't "just" a social network
○ It cuts across the whole range of Google services
● Nuanced approach to privacy and sharing
● Google are very keen to develop the service based on
your feedback
● You ain't seen nothing yet!

18. Search, plus Your World

19. Ripples

20. More information about Google+
To create an account visit www.google.com/+
To start
using it To create a Google+ page for an organization
visit plus.google.com/pages/create
To learn more about Google+ for the university
community, visit www.google.
For more com/+/learnmore/universities
information
For help, visit the Google+ Support at www.google.
com/support/plus

21. Making the Most of Google+
+Martin Hamilton, Loughborough University
+William Florance, Google
UCISA Using Social Media to Communicate event
#ucsoc12
These slides: http://goo.gl/wiya9