Posts Tagged ‘Technology’

How To Use Google Plus Sparks as an Internet Listening Post

Are you tuned into the web today? My guess is that if you are reading here, you’re already familiar with the importance of monitoring your listening posts to stay in the know about your favorite subjects, your name and anything else that’s important to your life or business. And guess what!  Google Plus has built in the ability to set up listening posts right inside your dashboard with a feature called Sparks. About Google Plus Sparks Google Plus Sparks might be one of the coolest and most overlooked features that Google Plus has offered us in the field test.  Essentially, it seems to be an easier-to-use version of Google alerts with the advantage of being built directly into your Google Plus dash board. What makes Google Plus Sparks valuable is that once the content is delivered as a result of your search, you can immediately share it across your circles with one simple click. There’s no need for any coping or pasting or even the use of a browser plugin or applet. While theres a lot of room for sparks to grow with enhancements, for now it can be a pretty effective tool if you know your way around boolean search operators.  For reference, that link back there will take you to a complete list of boolean search operators that you can bookmark and use to narrow down your results. What you search for is directly related to what interests you have, so you searches will be different than mine. A Few Examples of My Searches in Google Plus Sparks But, here’s some examples of what I’m playing with. Feel free to look off these and create your own: “Columbus Ohio” OR “Columbus OH” AND Jobs — this search allows me to keep a pulse on what’s happening in the job market in [...]

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Google Plus: 5 Point Framework for Organizing your G+ Circles

Google Plus has given us lots and lots of control over our information and who sees what we put out there. We might as well do something with this new privilege, right? But what do we do? What the folks at Google Plus haven’t given us are very detailed instructions as to what to do with these new shiny Circles. A Simple 5 Point Framework for Organizing your Google Plus Circles Here’s my first take at some type of a framework for to organizing your G+ circles. Remember that it’s easier to scale down rather than up, so broadly at first. This will help you keep your organization time to a minium: Geography – I use this one in just about every network I’m a part of. Organizing by geographic area comes in very handy when you travel and are looking to meet cool kids who might live near your destination. For my home base, I use a Columbus Friends group. Outside of that, I organize by regions such as midwest, east coast, west coast, southeast, southwest, and international. Level of relationship – Google Plus made this part of the default circles by providing aquaintences and family circles. I’ve kept those two and added a few of my own including circles titled “added me”, “on social media radar” for folks I don’t recognize or those I only connect with online. Time period in life – It seems like as we move through life, we create different types of relationships at different time periods.  I’m experimenting with circles for high school friends, college friends, and my students in this area knowing that the content I share in each of these circles along with the rate of sharing could potentially be very different. Content interests — One of the things I’m still trying to answer for myself is whether [...]

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