CircleCount helps you better understand Google+

2012-12-10 16:31:13 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Happening now: Hangout with me, other journalists, +Google & +Storyful to talk about social media verification during Hurricane Sandy and how to improve disaster coverage: https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/stream/0c9e3b9ae19e597bfb492a37ce68fabe4cb0dbf1?authuser=0&hl=en

2012-12-04 18:53:27 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Interested in how journalists can verify news they see on social media? I'm doing a public Hangout with several other journalists on this very topic, hosted by Google and Storyful. Join us if you can at 11:30 am ET on Monday.

2012-10-19 00:11:53 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Discussing social media and #Elections  with +Liz Heron +Alexander Howard +Ryan Teague Beckwith +Brian Ries  +Mallary Tenore +Burt Herman +Storify in Google+ Hangout at 8:30 p.m. ET tonight!

JOIN US! Link below to follow along.

2012-09-05 16:00:26 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

What Are Obama, Biden Trying to Accomplish

2012-08-27 21:07:46 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

The Wall Street Journal is hanging out with 2 people right now in a live Hangout On Air! #hangoutsonair

2012-08-27 18:12:06 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)

Join our Google+ hangout today at 5 p.m. EDT from the Republican National Convention in Tampa.  What questions do you have for deputy managing editor Alan Murray and Washington bureau chief Gerald Seib? What do Republicans need to accomplish during the now-shortened RNC? 

2012-05-22 21:26:37 (15 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

If you could Google-hangout with anyone, who would it be?

2012-05-08 18:43:36 (1 comments, 4 reshares, 7 +1s)

Turns out Google decided it was a good idea to put their G+ tips and tricks for the media page on G+ itself. Huzzah!

2012-04-11 22:48:43 (6 comments, 7 reshares, 14 +1s)

Update: Upon further conversation with Google's Sean Carlson, it turns out this page of tips and tricks for the media will not actually be on Google+ (which is a bit of a missed opportunity, in my humble opinion). The page exists here and they plan to keep updating it with new tips: http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/media/

Earlier: Sounds like Google will soon be starting a G+ page for journalists to collect tips, tricks and examples of best practices (I'm at Google today for a WSJ orientation.) I think this will help journalists use the platform a bit more effectively. What do you think? What would be most helpful to you to see on that page? For me, I just want to better keep up with new features here, and see how other media are using it.

2012-03-13 16:30:08 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

The New York Times is hanging out with 8 people right now! https://plus.google.com/hangouts/32bf6a5fc20a81b24bf0ac3d08ace63dc23a5d43

2012-02-08 19:26:24 (25 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

Are there any Sports fans here on G+? There's obviously a tech community and a creative community... What other topics have you seen people gather around?

2012-01-30 22:28:15 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Watch President Obama answer your questions live from the West Wing of the White House.

2012-01-30 14:23:01 (3 comments, 3 reshares, 3 +1s)

+Alexander Howard asks, will President Obama's Google+ Hangout be about substance or style? What do you think?

2012-01-20 23:47:32 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Thanks to those who hung out with campaign correspondent +Michael Shear and deputy political editor Paul Volpe. If you missed the hangout, you can view it in its entirety here. What topics are you most interested in discussing with our journalists during the next hangout?

2012-01-20 21:01:19 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

2012-01-20 16:49:48 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

We're planning another video Hangout today at 3 p.m. ET. Campaign correspondent +Michael Shear and political editor Paul Volpe will be on hand to talk about the presidential campaign so far. What questions do you have about last night's debate, or tomorrow's primary in South Carolina? Leave a comment telling us what you'd like to discuss.

2012-01-19 22:58:25 (0 comments, 11 reshares, 6 +1s)

2012-01-19 19:53:57 (25 comments, 1 reshares, 8 +1s)

Remember back when Google+ launched and they were really pushing Circles as the killer feature? Well, it's been a few months and I find myself rarely using the Circle feature, and just posting publicly every time. I feel like Hangouts are a lot more revolutionary. But maybe I'm an outlier since I use social media largely as a professional thing... What do you guys think? Are you using Circles pretty aggressively or are they not that important to you?

2012-01-17 18:59:59 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

Google joins Wikipedia, Reddit, Boing Boing and others in registering an online protest tomorrow. What impact do you think this will have?

2012-01-17 17:18:28 (6 comments, 3 reshares, 3 +1s)

Good thing or bad thing?

2012-01-11 18:59:09 (5 comments, 4 reshares, 6 +1s)

More screensharing = good for news hangouts.

2012-01-10 21:43:14 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

I thought I'd use +Gerwin Sturm 's All my + tool to compare user activity and engagement on a variety of news media Google+ pages. +The New York Times leads the pack by a considerably margin, with +Mashable and +The Next Web also doing quite well.

2012-01-09 14:54:57 (10 comments, 4 reshares, 5 +1s)

In case you're interested, a few of my thoughts on social media at the NYT....

2012-01-04 18:42:41 (12 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Would this be an effective protest, or royally piss off their users and backfire?

2012-01-03 22:25:24 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

There will be a lot of media coverage of the Iowa caucuses tonight, since they're the first real test for Republican contenders for president. But do you feel like you actually understand the way they work? If not, check out the transcript of a Q&A political correspondent Mike Shear did today on Facebook. He answers a lot of the basics. (We created the transcript with Storify.)

2011-12-30 18:18:50 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

+Ben Parr answers this question by saying, it depends on what you expected out of G+ in the first place. Has Google+ lived up to your expectations? Exceeded them? Fallen short?

2011-12-29 21:37:35 (5 comments, 3 reshares, 8 +1s)

Researcher Paul Allen says Google+ is getting people to join at an accelerating rate. Allen's analysis posits Google+ has reached 62 million registered users, with one-quarter of all users signing up in December alone.

2011-11-27 18:23:35 (36 comments, 53 reshares, 47 +1s)

Re-sharing to make this public...
Here are a few things I learned from our first New York Times Google+ video hangout:

I just watched it in full, after running around with +Alexis Mainland and +Bill Horn "producing" it behind the scenes yesterday. It's pretty amazing how raw and organic it feels, and how different than traditional broadcast. +Sam Grobart and +Jenna Wortham did a great job as hosts (thanks, guys!).

1. Apparently there is a thriving community of artists, musicians and fashion types on here, something I learned during the hangout. We'll have to do one of these with our Culture critics!
2. If you're a publisher hosting a hangout, be aware that every comment you type on your page scrolls across the bottom of the video in progress. **Update: +Bill Horn thinks this may have been a combination of our screen capture utility and our typing in the... more »

2011-06-30 21:01:25 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Liz Heron changed her profile photo.