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