Google+ For Dummies, Portable Edition E-Book

Jesse Stay

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 132

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2011

Beschreibung

A new social network! Here's your user's guide to Google+ Google+ is Google's new social network and from day one it hashad the social media world abuzz with excitement. Early fans claimit's easier to use than Facebook and Twitter and has a wealth ofcreative new features. If you want to learn how to navigate thisnew social neighborhood, take along Google+ For Dummies as yourguide. Early Google+ adopter and social media consultant Jesse Stayshows you how to get started, create a profile, set up privacysettings, chat, post, control who sees what, and much more. * Explains how to join Google+, protect your information, andmake the most of this new social network * Explores cool new features, such as Circles, which allows youto drag and drop friends into different circles * Covers creating a profile, finding friends, adding people toCircles, chatting with others in Hangouts, importing photos,controlling who sees what, and more * Conveys helpful information in the clear, friendly,easy-to-follow language that has defined the Dummies series for twodecades Confidently enter the exciting new Google+ social neighborhoodwith Google+ For Dummies.

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Google+™ For Dummies®, Portable Edition

Table of Contents

Introduction

About This Book

Foolish Assumptions

Icons Used in This Book

Where to Go from Here

Chapter 1: Leaping into Google+

Creating Your Account

Signing Up

Filling out your information

Setting Up Your Profile — the Basics

Setting Up Your Profile —Advanced

Filling out your About page

Setting your circle settings (say that five times fast!)

Setting other privacy options

Understanding the +1

Following Others on Google+

Picking whom to follow

Organizing your followers

Using the Sandbar on Other Google Products

Making Your First Post

Choosing your message

Choosing your destination

Notifying friends who haven’t circled you

Chapter 2: Boggling Over Circles and Privacy

Understanding Circles

Creating Circles

Dragging people into the “Drop Here to Create a New Circle” circle

Clicking the “Drop Here to Create a New Circle” circle

Mousing over people’s names to configure circles

Adding People to Your Circles

Consuming the Content for Each Circle

Inviting New People to Google+

Setting Who Can See Your Profile

Chapter 3: Posting to Google+

Knowing What to Post

Sharing posts with only close friends and family

Posting to journal your life

Posting to communicate with specific groups

Posting to increase the number of people circling you

Picking Your Audience

Posting to circles

Posting to individuals

Posting to e-mail addresses

Knowing who will see your posts and how they’ll see the posts

Sharing, Resharing, and Commenting on Posts

Resharing others’ posts

Getting people to comment on your posts

Mentioning others in posts and comments

Moderating Your Posts

Editing your posts

Deleting your posts

Muting posts

Deleting comments

Disabling comments or reshares

Dealing with Trolls

Handling trolls short of blocking them

Ignoring trolls when you just want a little peace and quiet

Blocking trolls when you’ve just had enough

Chapter 4: Hanging Out with Friends

Starting Your First Hangout

Getting your video “just right”

Picking whom to hangout with

Administering Your Hangout

Chapter 5: Finding Content with Sparks

Picking Your Sparks

Reading and Interacting with Sparks

Chapter 6: Gaming with Google+

Finding Games to Play

Reading the Games Stream

Challenging Your Friends

Chapter 7: Abiding by Social Network Etiquette

Deciding What to Post

Guidelines for posting

Commenting on others’ posts

Knowing When to Tag Other People

E-mailing Others and Knowing When You Should

Knowing When to Back Away (And How to Avoid Trolling)

Chapter 8: Using Google+ on Mobile Devices

Understanding the Google+ Mobile App Experience

Using Google+ on an iOS or Android device

Using Google+ features only on Android devices

Using Google+ on the mobile web

Posting to Google+ on a Mobile Device

Uploading photos on a mobile device

Checking in

Viewing the “Nearby” Stream

Using Huddles to Chat with Groups

Chapter 9: Using Google+ Photos

Viewing Your Photos

Viewing photos taken of you

Viewing photos taken on your phone

Viewing photos you’ve uploaded

Viewing Photos from Your Circles

Uploading New Photos

Tagging Others in Photos

Configuring Privacy Settings for Your Photos

Sharing Your Photos

Chapter 10: Liberating (Exporting and Backing Up) Your G+ Data

Knowing What You Can Back Up

Backing Up Your Data

Chapter 11: Ten Third-Party Applications You Can Use Right Now

Klout

Reader to Plus

Extended Share for Google+

Google+ Hangout Check

Replies and More for Google+

Plus Minus

Surplus

+Photo Zoom

SocialStatistics.com

G+ Stream Pause

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Google+™ For Dummies®, Portable Edition

by Jesse Stay

Google+™ For Dummies®, Portable Edition

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