visual guide to circles in google+ by @ross
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I found the Google Circles model of Asymmetric Sharing to be a little confusing, so I created this visual guide. Please share!TRANSCRIPT
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A visual guide to Circles in Google +
By Ross Mayfield
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Circles in are confusing, but are at the core of what Google Plus can do
for you By Ross Mayfield
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Google Plus Circles are lists of people
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You can make lots of circles to list your people
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You can give your Google Circles names or lables
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The names you give your circles are private, nobody can see how you label
them
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A circle is not a group
• Groups have membership, can be public or private and discoverable
• Note how you can’t learn from the circles other people create
• Google this: Ridiculously Easy Group Forming and Reed’s Law
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Facebook is symmetric sharing, based on confirmed Jes
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TwiKer sharing is based on asymmetric follow
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Google Plus’s Circles are Asymmetric Sharing
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Google Plus lets you share publicly, extended or limited to your circles
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What you see in your stream starts with people you share with and they share back. You can see
menJons. Incomping is everyone who shares with you
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You only see the comments in threads that someone is enricled with you
started
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Good things about asymmetric sharing in Google Plus’s Circles: privacy,
management, version your profile, disable reshare, latent connecJon
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Minuses of Asymmetric Sharing
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