skills: use google plus, compose google plus posts for your circles, compose google plus posts for a...
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Skills: Use Google Plus, compose Google Plus posts for your circles, compose Google Plus posts for a communityConcepts: Ongoing improvement and change in network applications, wire-frame diagram
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Using Google Plus
Where does this topic fit?
• Internet concepts– Applications– Technology– Implications
• Internet skills– Application development– Content creation– User skills
Create a new post?Edit an old post?See posts from people in your circles?Add/remove people from circles?Search for posts?Create and join communities?Find people?See people’s posts and profiles?Use + and # prefixes?
Demo/play
Pause to play around with the program. Think about what is in memory, the role of the client and server, etc. while you try it out.
How do I:
Let’s look at four of the top-level pages
View posts selectively
View your profile and posts
Communities
Manage circles
The general user interface pattern
Options for the currently selected page
The options for the currently selected page are shown in a horizontal menu near the top of the screen.
Conversation – posting to circles and communities
Create posts
Filter what you see in your incoming stream
Keep the conversation going
• Recommend
• Forward to others
• Comment
Add a comment when you share
Categorizing a new community post(AKA assigning a tag to a new post)
What’s up with the asterisks ( * ) around the title?
Sharing with a community
Miscellaneous
Pending notifications
After a post is complete
If it’s your postIf it’s someone else’s
Organization accounts
+Larry Press
Names start with +
Search tags start with #
Rapid change
Wireframediagram
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Summary
Self study questions
Without looking back can you name the four Google Plus pages we discussed?
Briefly describe each page and its use.
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Without looking back, state how each of these regions of the Google Plus Home page is used. Go back and check your answer when you do as much as you can.
Resources
Get a Google Plus account at:http//plus.google.com
Google Plus help:http://www.google.com/support/plus/?hl=en
Five things Google Plus does better than Facebook or Twitter: http://bit.ly/tHS3xd
Hangouts on air help:https://support.google.com/plus/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2553119&topic=2553242&rd=1