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Google+ Profile Hacks: My Profile Was Featured On Mashable!

By Paul Spoerry —  July 26, 2011 — 1 Comment

googleplus1Will you look at that… my Google+ Profile Hack was featured on Mashable! If you’re already using Google+ you can follow my Google+ Paul Spoerry profile and creep on my adventures through the Internet, get tips and tricks, as well as social media and technology updates.

Via Mashable:

It’s not just Facebook users having all the fun with photographic profile hacks, we are delighted to report that Google+ users are getting in on the action too.

Because the shiny new social networking service displays some of your photos at the top of your profile, you can tweak your scrapbook photo album for a more creative photographic display.

From landscapes to portraits via pop art, take a look through the photo gallery below for the brilliant examples we’ve come across so far. Link us in the comments to any of your Google+ profile hacks — we might just add them to the list!

To my surprise and delight, my profile made it onto the list! *take a bow*

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Mashable: Google+ Profile Hacks: Users Get Creative with Photos [PICS]

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Google+ Extensions: Five New Additions To Enhance Google+

By Paul Spoerry —  July 26, 2011 — Leave a comment

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Here are five new Google+ extensions to enhance and tweak Google+.

Google+ extensions can help augment your use of the newest social network on the block. Google+ is growing, and even before it was easy to get an invite, people were busy writing extensions, userscripts, and add-ons for Chrome and Firefox to help you tweak the layout, add new tools, and change the look and feel.

I personally dig the current layout but here are some great extensions that help you trick it out and add additional functionality.

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Two Google+ Cheat Sheets

By Paul Spoerry —  July 22, 2011 — Leave a comment

Now that you have your shiny new Google+ account up and running chances are you would love to know some awesome cheats and tips. Here’s the two obligatory cheat sheets full of tips for formatting, adding images or videos, hotkeys to use, and more!

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Awesome Venue/Promoter Pages on Facebook

By Paul Spoerry —  July 21, 2011 — 1 Comment

Click to view fullsizeI’ve been all over Google+ lately, and I recently finished an article How To Create Events On Google+, via Google Calendar, on that platform. At best it’s a hack until Google releases an API that can be used. Shortly after that post went up I ran across ReverbNation, which provide two very slick Facebook apps, one for bands, one for venues.

The new app, can be seen in action over on Brooklyn venue The Knitting Factory’s Page. It’s simpler than the band app, but includes a lot of features that make venue/promoter content more shareable and interactive. Best of all it’s free and looks slick.

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Google Plus User Adoption Concerns [Google+]

By Paul Spoerry —  July 21, 2011 — Leave a comment

Are the issues and concerns over the Google+ Adoption rate valid?

The minute Google+ launched I immediately started consuming as much information about the new platform as I could… even writing a few articles myself as well as contributing to the ever growing Google+: a collaborative document. The collaborative document is a great place to start if you’re looking for some in depth information on Google+. Beyond that document, Anson Alex’s website has become my “go to” place for tutorials and updates. Yes, even beating out the likes of Mashable, ReadWriteWeb, and TechCrunch. Not that there is anything wrong with those sites, I actually really like those sites, but Anson’s site distills it down to the stuff that I really want to know. Whereas the others cover EVERY single thing that’s happening.

Among some early adopters, and certainly in the Social Media… uh.. media’s eyes, there has been this topic/debate about Google+‘s Adoption rate. It usually distills down to “Is this a Facebook killer?” and then a lot of banter on how large Facebook is versus Google’s efforts. If you’re curious about the debates, concerns, future impact, etc. you should definitively check out Google Plus User Adoption Concerns [Google+], it’s a great read and I couldn’t have summarized it any better myself.

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