Google Plus First Look: a tip-packed, comprehensive look at Google+
Get up and running with Google+ fast with this book and ebook
1st Edition
Published on 8. July 2025
208 pages
978-1-84968-535-1 (ISBN)
Description
Key FeaturesBook DescriptionThrough over 100 books, mostly computer-related, the author has mastered a fun but information packed style that gives you exactly what you want - up to speed on Plus with minimal effort and maximum results. Google+ or Plus (the terms are interchangeable) was written for everyone. This book mirrors that concept and is written for everyone - from us techheads (early adopters) to delightful old Aunt Mable and the rest of the Thursday Night Bridge Club. Because social networking exists for all people and we are all people - all of us are plusses on Plus.What you will learn - The basics of Plus
- The easiest but most productive methods of coming up to speed on this fun-packed, powerful new kind of social network
- Getting everyone in circles
- Working with built-in video chat and related features
- Using Google+ on your mobile
- Promoting on Plus
Who this book is for
- The easiest but most productive methods of coming up to speed on this fun-packed, powerful new kind of social network
- Getting everyone in circles
- Working with built-in video chat and related features
- Using Google+ on your mobile
- Promoting on Plus
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Roberts Ralph :
Ralph Roberts is a decorated Vietnam veteran and worked with NASA during the Apollo moon program. He built his first personal computer in 1976 and has been writing about them and on them since his first published article Down with Typewriters in 1978. He has written over 100 books along with thousands of articles and short stories. His bestsellers include the first U.S. book on computer viruses (which resulted in several appearances on national TV) and Classic Cooking with Coca-Cola, a cookbook that has been in continuous print for the past 17 years and sold half a million copies. Ralph is also a video producer with over 100 DVD titles now for sale nationally on places such as Amazon.com. He has also produced hundreds of hours of video for local TV in the Western North Carolina area and sold scripts to Hollywood producers. Previously for Packt, Ralph wrote Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting, Google App Inventor, and Google Plus First Look. Ralph and his wife Pat live on a farm in the mountains of Western North Carolina with two horses.
Ralph Roberts is a decorated Vietnam veteran and worked with NASA during the Apollo moon program. He built his first personal computer in 1976 and has been writing about them and on them since his first published article Down with Typewriters in 1978. He has written over 100 books along with thousands of articles and short stories. His bestsellers include the first U.S. book on computer viruses (which resulted in several appearances on national TV) and Classic Cooking with Coca-Cola, a cookbook that has been in continuous print for the past 17 years and sold half a million copies. Ralph is also a video producer with over 100 DVD titles now for sale nationally on places such as Amazon.com. He has also produced hundreds of hours of video for local TV in the Western North Carolina area and sold scripts to Hollywood producers. Previously for Packt, Ralph wrote Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting, Google App Inventor, and Google Plus First Look. Ralph and his wife Pat live on a farm in the mountains of Western North Carolina with two horses.
Content
- Intro
- Google Plus First Look: a tip-packed, comprehensive look at Google+
- Table of Contents
- Google Plus First Look: a tip-packed, comprehensive look at Google+
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more
- Why Subscribe?
- Free Access for Packt account holders
- Instant Updates on New Packt Books
- Preface
- What this book covers
- What you need for this book
- Who this book is for
- Conventions
- Reader feedback
- Customer support
- Errata
- Piracy
- Questions
- 1. Joining Plus and What to Do First
- What is Plus?
- Features of Plus
- Why join Google Plus?
- How to join Plus
- Getting a Google Account
- Getting a Plus Membership
- Privacy concerns
- Profiles
- What we learned
- 2. Sorting Everyone into Circles
- Tips on using Plus
- How to post
- Text emphasis
- Editing and deleting
- Other people's posts
- Shortcuts
- Sending a private message
- Editing your posts
- What's not to like about pluses?
- The basics of Circles
- Who's following whom?
- Adding people to your Circles
- Notifications
- Creating new Circles
- Circles for Friends, Acquaintances, and Family
- Mastering circle maintenance
- Sorting Circles
- Adding people who've added you
- Reordering Circles
- Sorting members of a circle
- Circle editing shortcuts
- Private Circles
- Following celebrities and others
- What we learned
- 3. Hanging Out
- What Are Hangouts?
- Selecting and setting up a webcam
- Starting your own Hangout
- Joining existing Hangouts
- Hanging out from YouTube
- What we learned
- 4. Streaming
- Changelog
- How the Stream works
- Controlling what we see
- Posting and Targeting
- Targeting
- Posting your own stuff
- Posting Other types of documents
- Posting from the web
- Archiving your posts
- Posting from another website
- What we learned
- 5. Sharing Media
- Preparing photos for Plus
- Uploading and captioning Photos
- Adding more than one photo to posts
- Posting photos from your phone
- Using the Photos section
- Preparing videos for Plus
- Uploading and captioning videos
- Uploading directly to Plus
- Sharing a YouTube video
- Using automatically uploaded videos from your phone
- What we learned
- 6. Mobile and Games
- Getting mobile access to Plus on phones or tablets
- SMS only
- Streaming
- Photos
- Circles
- Messenger
- Profile
- Notifications
- Settings
- Games on Plus
- What we learned
- 7. Promoting on Plus the Right Way
- Netiquette
- Considerate marketing is effective marketing
- Content is king
- A marketing secret
- Maximizing article views
- Driving visitors to your website
- Business and organization accounts
- Starting circle groups
- Google+ pages
- What we learned
- Conclusion
- A. Appendix
- Third-party websites
- Extensions
- Index
