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These are the slides from my talk on Google+ with Google’s William Florance at the UCISA Using Social Media to Communicate workshop. You can find out more and watch a video of the talk at http://blog.martinh.net/2012/01/making-most-of-google.html
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Making the Most of Google++Martin Hamilton, Loughborough University+William Florance, Google UCISA Using Social Media to Communicate event#ucsoc12 These slides: http://goo.gl/wiya9
What is Google+ ?Circles help you organize everyone according to your real life connections
Hangouts let up to 10 people video conference at no charge
Hangouts with Extras let you share Google Docs or your screen as well
Stream lets you have conversations and share information with circles
Search allows you to search Google+ posts, Google+ people, and the web
Instant Upload automatically sends photos and videos to a private album
Messenger allows you to bring people together for group mobile messaging
Profile is the way you represent yourself on Google products across the web
Google+ Pages allow you to create a Google+ page for your organization
Joining Google+
Creating a Profile
Your Google Profile
Mobile as 1st Class Citizen
● Participate in Hangouts
● Location based services
● Instant upload of photos and videos
● 700,000 Android activations per day
○ Google+ signup as part of Ice Cream Sandwich activation
Privacy on Google+
Google+ is Just Beginning
GmailYouTube
GmailSearch
Google Confidential and Proprietary
Google+ in EducationTeaching & learning, research, support
Create a brand presence with Pages
A lightweight blog?
Some Education Use Cases
● Remote IT support (platform neutral) ● Engaging with pre-sessional students, alumni etc
● Online tutorial groups, part time distance learners, multiple campuses
● Inter-institutional research collaboration, developing papers and funding proposals
● Promoting your "brand"
● Student clubs and societies
Google+ for Apps Domains
● Entirely voluntary - domain admin has to enable, and users have to opt in
● Can share posts with the whole domain, e.g.
everyone at Loughborough University
● Circles != Groups
● Death of the VLE predicted :-)
Online Collaboration Pilot
Future Directions
Google Confidential and Proprietary
Wrapping Up
Conclusions
● Google+ isn't "just" a social network
○ It cuts across the whole range of Google services
● Nuanced approach to privacy and sharing
● Google are very keen to develop the service based on your feedback
● You ain't seen nothing yet!
Search, plus Your World
Ripples
More information about Google+
To learn more about Google+ for the university community, visit www.google.com/+/learnmore/universities
For help, visit the Google+ Support at www.google.com/support/plus
To create an account visit www.google.com/+
To create a Google+ page for an organization visit plus.google.com/pages/create
For more information
To start using it
Making the Most of Google++Martin Hamilton, Loughborough University+William Florance, Google UCISA Using Social Media to Communicate event#ucsoc12 These slides: http://goo.gl/wiya9
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