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Google Plus First Look: a tip-packed, comprehensive look at Google+

By : Ralph Roberts
Book Image

Google Plus First Look: a tip-packed, comprehensive look at Google+

By: Ralph Roberts

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Google Plus First Look: a tip-packed, comprehensive look at Google+
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Tips on using Plus


When I originally wrote this, I read (on Google Plus, of course) an article that said 48 percent of those 32 million and growing members of Plus have not yet posted anything! Now (as I do the final proof on this book) that figure is over 50 million and growing rapidly (according to Paul Allen who tracks and posts this on Plus) as Google+ is open to the public, but the percentage of members not posting articles probably still remains the same.

Sooner or later, however, you (and many of them) will want to post stuff. After all sharing comments, links, photos, videos, and so on is the basic concept and feature of most social networks and communication. Here are some methods of enhancing your posts.

How to post

First, we need to know the mechanics of posting comments on Plus.

To practice posting, begin on your home page of Plus by clicking on a circle under the Stream heading. I've created one named Sandbox to play in and not irritate folks while I test various features of...