Synopses & Reviews
Google+ brings together the best of social networking services and lets you share ideas, photos, and links with your friends, your acquaintances, your family—even your fantasy league or book group—with control over what you share and who you share it with. In this essential handbook to Google+, author Scott McNulty shows you how to set up circles, follow streams, join hangouts, and share photos. You learn how to:
- Set up your profile.
- Create and manage your circles.
- Share links, photos, video—even your location (or not).
- Take control of your stream, including how to mute and block unwanted posts.
- Join a hangout or start one yourself.
- Share notes, Google Docs, and your screen in a hangout.
- Upload photos and create and manage albums.
- Go mobile with Google+ apps for iOS and Android.
To keep up with Google’s constantly changing social site, check out www.peachpit.com/googleplusguide for news on updates to Google+.
Synopsis
This approachable, four-color book will offer readers a thorough guide to using Google+, Google's answer to the challenge it faces from Facebook, Twitter, and all other ways people are being social on the web. After covering the fundamentals of being social on the web, the book digs into how to set up and manage Circles, control the Stream, share photos and video, use Hangouts, get the most out of Sparks, and use games. There will be coverage of photography and building communities around photography. The book also covers using the iOS and Android Google+ apps.
As Google+ expands its social service, the author will write new digital updates available to book purchasers free through 2012.
About the Author
Scott McNulty joins every new social network so you don’t have to. Google+ is his latest online obsession and it’ll soon be yours. Scott lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Marisa. By day he works at the The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and by night he blogs about whatever strikes his fancy at blog.blankbaby.com. He has also been known to tweet once or twice under the handle @blankbaby. He is the author of
The Mac OS X Lion Project Book, and both editions of
Building a WordPress Blog People Want to Read.