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2013-02-21 03:51:51 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Check out my travel video on Dominica and vote so I can win a trip around the world!!

2013-01-28 00:54:29 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)

Keeping the videos coming

2013-01-19 15:58:57 (9 comments, 21 reshares, 41 +1s)

video of the weekend

2012-12-12 15:04:14 (0 comments, 16 reshares, 28 +1s)

It's here. My favorite annual video tradition.

2012-09-13 23:48:42 (13 comments, 4 reshares, 27 +1s)

If you haven't seen it already you're behind the times.

2012-07-13 22:21:14 (12 comments, 2 reshares, 29 +1s)

Posted by +Toby Stein:
 
It has come time to say goodbye. I am moving on from Google and the Google+ Your Business page. Fear not. You’re in good hands with +Jade Wang and the rest of the Google+ Your Business Team!

It’s been quite the ride. Since launching Google+ Pages we’ve seen businesses doing some pretty incredible things. So, some parting thoughts on the way out:

1. The businesses that do the best on Google+ are the ones that invest in relationships with customers, influencers, and peers.

2. Hangouts are magical. Use them.

3. There are so many people out there in Google+, regular users and small business owners, who want to help you. They have tips and tricks and experience. They put countless hours into answering questions and writing best practices. They’re the real experts; we learn from them every day.

4. Google is luckyto have s... more »

2012-06-12 20:59:56 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

Check it out

2012-05-03 17:01:06 (16 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

It's time for +Toby Stein and +Kristoffer Sorensen to answer your questions about Google+ Pages. Leave them below and we'll get to them in real time from now until 10:45am PST.

2012-04-25 18:05:22 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 12 +1s)

Google+ Your Business is hanging out with 1 person right now in a live Hangout On Air! #hangoutsonair

2012-04-19 20:30:19 (0 comments, 5 reshares, 26 +1s)

Hi everyone,

We're trying to collect some additional information from those of you who use Google+ on your feature phone or Blackberry (aka not on an Android or iOS device.

Just +1 this post so that we can follow up for more information!

2012-04-16 15:52:23 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 16 +1s)

Office buildings remind me of a set from some Wes Anderson movie, each cube with its own quirky story that probably ends in slow motion. Happy Monday, all.

2012-04-02 18:38:02 (6 comments, 1 reshares, 16 +1s)

Google+ Mobile Users - We Want to Hangout With You
make a selection in the comments

The G+ Mobile team wants to know how you’re feeling about Google+ for your mobile phone. Love it? Hate it? Want to change it? Well, here’s your chance to talk to us directly.

Below, in the comments area, you’ll see Android, iOS, and Web App. Just +1 the platform you use most often to access Google+ from your phone. After that, the team will reach out to you and find some time to chat.

#nowthisiscommunity #android #androidapps #iOS

2012-03-07 00:02:19 (19 comments, 85 reshares, 21 +1s)

We’re about a week away from South by Southwest and those of you who are going are probably in the midst of figuring out which sessions, parties, and events you’ll be attending. SXSW can seem daunting; too much to do, too much to see. Fortunately, there are people who can help you make the most of your time in Austin.

Follow the members of our Google+ Street Team to get all the hottest updates from deep in the heart of Texas.

2012-02-28 19:27:24 (2 comments, 5 reshares, 10 +1s)

In just a few minutes our Google+ Community Managers will be hanging out and want to talk to you! Join my hangout to talk about Google+ Pages or Mobile or head on over to the other CMs’ profiles, jump into a hangout, and have fun.

Go to:
+Brian Rose's profile to talk about Photos
+Katherine Gramann's profile to talk about Hangouts and Chat
+Natalie Villalobos' profile to talk about Games and the rest of the Google+ experience

2012-02-27 16:06:07 (14 comments, 37 reshares, 48 +1s)

Talk To The Google+ Community Managers!
We love meeting people who love Google+ as much as we do. That’s why the Google+ Community Managers are going to be hosting a Help Desk Hangout tomorrow at 11:30am PST/2:30pm EST. +Brian, +Natalie, +Katherine, and I will all be hosting hangouts from our personal profiles, so hop on over, jump on in, and chat away. If the hangout is full, join one of the other Community Managers, wait until a space opens up, or post a question in the hangout’s comment thread.

Stay here to talk about Google+ Pages and Mobile. If you’re interested in discussing another aspect of Google+, head to:
+Brian Rose's profile to talk about Photos
+Katherine Gramann's profile to talk about Hangouts and Chat
+Natalie Villalobos' profile to talk about Games and the rest of Google+

We’ll each also be answering generalquestio... more »

2012-02-23 19:24:51 (18 comments, 7 reshares, 26 +1s)

You've probably noticed the new format for "What's hot", the stream that collects and shares the most popular content from across Google+. Did you know that you can adjust the frequency with which this content appears in your stream?

1. Click "What's hot" on the left side of your home screen, beneath the list of your circles.

2. Use the slider in the top right of the window to adjust the volume!

It's as easy as that, giving you more control of the content you see on Google+.

2012-02-14 18:55:41 (3 comments, 4 reshares, 13 +1s)

New Google+ iOS app, now with Instant Upload!

A new version of the Google+ iOS app is rolling out to the App Store, and it comes with one of your most requested features: Instant Upload! Once enabled, all photos and videos that you take are automatically uploaded to a private album on Google+ -- ready to share with your circles, or the world.

Other cool features in this release include:
- The What’s Hot stream
- Shake your phone to send feedback: Google+ Update: Shake and Send (Sexy) Feedback from your iPhone
- Various bug fixes and performance improvements

You can download the latest version here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google/id447119634?mt=8

We look forward to seeing your beautiful pictures on Google+. Do keep the feedback coming!

* Instant Upload is only active while the Google+ iOS app is open, and for a briefp... more »

2012-02-13 21:39:24 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 11 +1s)

Will You Be At SXSW?
it's going to be so much fun!

South By Southwest Interactive is right around the corner and the Google+ Community Management Team is heading to Austin to join in the tech geekery (we'll be there 3/8-3/13)! We’ll be hanging out, talking about Google+, enjoying SXSW, and, we hope, meeting you!

Leave a comment to let us know that you’ll be there too! Also, tell us how you’re planning to use Google+ to make the most of your SXSW experience. How are you going to keep your friends, family, and followers up on all the amazing things that will be going on?

Stay tuned to find out what Google+ will be up to at SXSW!

pictured from left to right: +Brian Rose (G+ Photos), +Toby Stein (G+ Pages), Me!, +Katherine Gramann (G+ Hangouts)
#sxsw

2012-02-13 18:00:16 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Adjust the volume of "What's hot" in your main stream
#googleplusupdate #whatshot

A few months ago we launched “What's hot”, an always-fresh collection of interesting posts on Google+ (http://goo.gl/6qhVu). We later launched volume "sliders,” letting you decide how much or how little individual circles contribute to your overall stream (http://goo.gl/wrHDD).

Today, and thanks to your feedback, we're bringing these two features together. This way you can control how many "What's hot" posts appear in your main stream on Google+ -- from most, to some, to none at all.

Whenever hot posts do appear in your stream, we'll label them accordingly. And if you're ever in the mood to only see hot posts, you can always click on "What's hot" in the left-hand navigation menu.

We're rollingout t... more »

2012-02-10 21:17:07 (9 comments, 12 reshares, 25 +1s)

Today is a big day.

2012-02-02 20:08:00 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

My colleagues +Ryan Stonehouse, +Melanie Hamilton, and +Vanessa Schneider are all hanging out on their profiles, talking about Google+.

Show them some love!

2012-01-26 23:03:28 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Our Google+ Community Managers are currently hanging out live and want to talk to you! Join my hangout to talk about Google+ Pages or Mobile or hop on over to the other CMs’ profiles, jump into a hangout, and have fun.

Go to:
+Brian Rose's profile to talk about Photos
+Katherine Gramann's profile to talk about Hangouts and Chat
+Natalie Villalobos' profile to talk about Games and the rest of Google+

2012-01-25 19:26:37 (8 comments, 0 reshares, 15 +1s)

My team is going to the Superbowl! And, they have a Google+ Page. Two great things to celebrate this Wednesday.

2012-01-25 18:18:56 (16 comments, 24 reshares, 30 +1s)

Talk To The Google+ Community Managers!

We love meeting people who love Google+ as much as we do. That’s why the Google+ Community Managers are going to be hosting a Help Desk Hangout tomorrow, Thursday, at 3pm PST/6pm EST. +Brian Rose, +Natalie Villalobos, +Katherine Gramann, and I will be hosting hangouts from our personal profiles, so hop on over, jump on in, and chat away. If the hangout is full, join one of the other Community Managers, wait until a space opens up, or post a question in the hangout’s comment thread.

If you’re interested in discussing a particular aspect of Google+, head to:
+Toby Stein's profile to talk about Google+ Pages and Mobile
+Brian Rose's profile to talk about Photos
+Katherine Gramann’s profile to talk about Hangouts and Chat
+Natalie Villalobos' profile to talk about Games and the rest ofthe Goo... more »

2012-01-23 21:55:27 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 10 +1s)

Toward a more inclusive naming policy for Google+

With Google+, we aspire to make online sharing more like sharing in the real world. And during the Google+ signup process, we've asked users to select the name they commonly use in real life.

Since launch we've listened closely to community feedback on our names policy, as well as reviewed our own data regarding signup completion. The vast majority of users sail through our signup process -- in fact, only about 0.1% submit name appeals.

When we analyze the set of all name appeals on Google+, we find that they generally fall into three major categories:
- The majority (60%) of these users want to simply add nicknames.
- About 20% of appeals are actually businesses (who are inadvertently trying to set up their business as a Profile, rather than using Google+ Pages which were intended for this purpose.)... more »

2012-01-18 21:20:08 (2 comments, 7 reshares, 11 +1s)

Help improve the Google+ mobile experience: Tell us what you think!
Do you use Google+ on your phone or tablet? Got five minutes? We're running a survey to see what people like about using Google+ on mobile devices and what could be improved. Android, iPhone, and mobile web users all welcome!

Please reshare

2012-01-17 21:59:26 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

Adding funny text to photos

Adding a few words can turn a silly photo into a ROFL, or draw attention to what you find most interesting. Today we're rolling out a feature that makes it easier to add big, bold text on top of your photos.

To try it out, drop a photo into the sharebox on Google+, then click the "Add text" button underneath the photo. Type in something funny, then share and enjoy.

This feature will be rolling out over the next few days -- I hope you enjoy it! :) We'll be keeping our eyes on the stream for the funniest examples, so have fun! #funwithphotos #googleplusupdate

We made a few to get you started:

2012-01-12 18:39:25 (3 comments, 31 reshares, 16 +1s)

Posted by +Gabriel Vasile on behalf of the CWD page:

11 GOOGLE+ DIRECTORIES TO HELP YOU MAKE MORE FRIENDS

These are the most important Google Plus directories I found until now. I hope I didn't miss other important ones, but if I did, just leave me a comment on the original post: https://plus.google.com/b/103907225546063045621/103907225546063045621/posts/bhdfqDk8eTn

Please share this to help the G+ community.

1. Find People On Plus - http://www.findpeopleonplus.com
This directory has more than 31 million G+ profiles indexed. You can search for G+ users by MANY FILTERS like location, occupation, employer, education, gender, relationship, interests and many more. You can also find an interesting GOOGLE+ INFOGRAPHIC and NEWS about Google Plus.

2. Social Statistics - http://socialstatistics.com/... more »

2012-01-12 16:55:31 (10 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

I've seen some questions about why we are removing the "Incoming" stream today, so I thought I'd give some details behind our thinking.

The "Incoming" stream was a part of Google+ from the very start and it served an important purpose at the time to help people discover others on Google+. Since then however we've added a suggested user list, What's Hot, the ability to share circles and in-product search with saved searches. We've also greatly improved our friend suggestion algorithms. These changes all served the same purpose that incoming originally did: connecting people.

Based on your feedback and our user research, we learned that the "Incoming" stream was a very confusing part of Google+. Not surprisingly, this feedback was reflected in very low usage of the "Incoming" stream compared to the rest of Google+, so we... more »

2012-01-10 19:24:52 (9 comments, 10 reshares, 22 +1s)

A worthy sequel

2012-01-10 19:18:42 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

I spend about half my life on +Sporcle. This page may change everything.

2011-12-26 16:21:49 (6 comments, 11 reshares, 15 +1s)

2011-12-20 19:19:29 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 12 +1s)

For all of you trying to tune in thanks for your patience while we get this up and running -- it is our first one after all!

2011-12-19 14:36:59 (11 comments, 18 reshares, 30 +1s)

So many new features? Proud of my two cameos.

2011-12-15 19:26:25 (5 comments, 8 reshares, 7 +1s)

Holiday Public Service Announcement

Have a lot of people circled you? Are you a verified user? Are you a heavy user of Google products? Do you use your Google account to log into various websites around the web?

If you said yes to any of these questions, chances are, you will eventually be a target of a hijacker. Better to take out some insurance now rather than wish you did after it's too late. That insurance is 2-step verification. 2-step verification drastically reduces the chances of having the personal information in your Google account stolen by someone else. Why? Because in addition to your username and password, you'll now enter a code that Google will send you via text or voice message upon signing in. That means hackers would have to not only get your password and your username, they'd have to get a hold of your phone as well. Not... more »

2011-12-15 16:30:50 (3 comments, 7 reshares, 9 +1s)

Zeitgeist 2011: Year In Review

2011-12-09 18:34:14 (0 comments, 8 reshares, 10 +1s)

Celebrating Friday by re-watching my favorite Ted Talk.

2011-12-09 18:30:57 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Scrapbook Photos

2011-11-29 23:44:40 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

My personal profile may have gone quiet, but that's because I'm now sharing my wisdom on the Google+ Your Business page. Check out what I'm up to over there!

2011-11-07 18:41:47 (24 comments, 11 reshares, 23 +1s)

Pages are live! Read about them on the Official Google Blog and add these two to your circles!

2011-11-01 17:59:06 (5 comments, 2 reshares, 7 +1s)

Happy November to all of you iOS folks! We're excited to announce that the Google+ iOS app (v.1.0.6.2591) is rolling out now to the App store, but please keep in mind that it may take time to roll out everywhere. As usual, you can grab it here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google/id447119634?mt=8

What's new:
- Support for Google Apps users
- Messenger now lets you know if someone's online, and if they're currently typing.
- Lots of bug fixes including some of the crash issues you’ve been reporting!

We hope you enjoy the improvements. As always, please keep the feedback coming!

2011-10-31 22:47:41 (16 comments, 15 reshares, 28 +1s)

I'm really excited to announce that the new version of Google+ for Android is available today! We worked closely with the Android team as they developed Android 4.0 (aka Ice Cream Sandwich, http://goo.gl/UpUom), so you'll see the same attention to beauty and simplicity in our new design.

Anyone running Froyo and higher can use the new Google+ app, so feel free to visit Android Market, and download this Halloween treat:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.android.apps.plus

In the meantime, you can check out our new look by clicking into the photo album below. Let us know what you think about the new app!

Release notes: www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=1379465

2011-10-27 17:53:11 (2 comments, 5 reshares, 16 +1s)

What hot!? Creative Kit. Ripples. And finally, Google Apps enabled for Google+.

2011-10-12 20:38:34 (3 comments, 6 reshares, 15 +1s)

Real-time search and improved hashtag support

Today we're rolling out two new features: 1) real-time search results; and 2) improved hashtag support. Together, we're trying to make it easier to follow and contribute to live events on Google+, including breaking news, sporting events, and many others.

Real-time search
Now when you search in Google+, you'll see a message about new posts the instant they're available. If you click on this message, or select "Most recent", then relevant posts will start appearing in real-time.

Improved hashtag support
People have long used hashtags to mark their posts with certain topics -- just ask our very own +Chris Messina, hashtag inventor. You don't have to use hashtags on Google+ (search works fine without them), but when you do, we'll automatically link to search results.
... more »

2011-10-11 20:31:56 (16 comments, 11 reshares, 14 +1s)

Hey folks - The team has been working hard to fix some of the bugs you reported in the last release of the Google+ app for Android. I'm happy to announce that the newest version (v. 1.0.8) is rolling out today from Android Market: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.android.apps.plus

Bug fixes in this release:
Fixed a bug that prevented installation on some devices
Improved messenger notification reliability
Numerous crash fixes
Disable speakerphone when headset is plugged in for hangouts
New translations


Release notes can be found here: http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=1379465

Thanks again for all your patience, and please continue to send us your feedback!

2011-10-10 14:10:00 (22 comments, 8 reshares, 50 +1s)

Regardless what phone you're carrying, we want to make sure you can still use Google+. That's why we provide app-, web-, and SMS-based versions of Google+ for your mobile device. Over the last few weeks we've rolled out some improvements for users with basic mobile web browsers (including those found on BlackBerry, Nokia and Windows Mobile devices):
* New home screen with links to your stream, circles, profile and notifications
* Freshly polished design for the stream, posts, and profiles
* New notifications view with unread counts
* New people and circle views, including people search
* Improved commenting on posts


Visit google.com/+ in your mobile browser to check out some of the recent updates.

Release notes can be found at: google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=1699431

We look forward to hearing more of your... more »