The Google+ Guide
Circles, Photos, and Hangouts
Published on 23. November 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-0-321-81409-8 (ISBN)
Description
Google+ brings together the best of social networking services and lets you share ideas, photos, and links with your friends, your acquaintances, your family-even your fantasy league or book group-with control over what you share and who you share it with. In this essential handbook to Google+, author Scott McNulty shows you how to set up circles, follow streams, join hangouts, and share photos. You learn how to:
Set up your profile.
Create and manage your circles.
Share links, photos, video-even your location (or not).
Take control of your stream, including how to mute and block unwanted posts.
Join a hangout or start one yourself.
Share notes, Google Docs, and your screen in a hangout.
Upload photos and create and manage albums.
Go mobile with Google+ apps for iOS and Android.
To keep up with Google's constantly changing social site, check out www.peachpit.com/googleplusguide for news on updates to Google+.
Set up your profile.
Create and manage your circles.
Share links, photos, video-even your location (or not).
Take control of your stream, including how to mute and block unwanted posts.
Join a hangout or start one yourself.
Share notes, Google Docs, and your screen in a hangout.
Upload photos and create and manage albums.
Go mobile with Google+ apps for iOS and Android.
To keep up with Google's constantly changing social site, check out www.peachpit.com/googleplusguide for news on updates to Google+.
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Person
Scott McNulty joins every new social network so you don't have to. Google+ is his latest online obsession and it'll soon be yours. Scott lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Marisa. By day he works at the The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and by night he blogs about whatever strikes his fancy at blog.blankbaby.com. He has also been known to tweet once or twice under the handle @blankbaby. He is the author of The Mac OS X Lion Project Book, and both editions of Building a WordPress Blog People Want to Read.