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How to Activate and Promote Your
Google Buzz Sid Macatol
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What is Google Buzz?
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Think of Google Buzz as Google’s low profile version
of Facebook and Twitter
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It doesn’t cost anything to have another social media
network, as you’ll see
Where do we see it?
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It has no distinct URL
Where do we see it?
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But it’s a feature of your Gmail, as you would see
Open your Gmail Account
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Open a New Tab
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Go to google.com/buzz
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I suggest you watch the video
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Scroll down to study the other features of Google Buzz
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Click on ‘Try Google Buzz’
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Google will bring you back to the Gmail Dashboard
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But note the new Buzz icon
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Click Settings.
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Click on Buzz
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Maintain these settings in the meantime
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Click View and Edit
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Add Picasa
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Add Posted via buzz@gmail
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You can add more posting options
later, ok?
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Let’s make do with Picasa and
buzz@gmail at this time
Click ‘Next step’
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Save your profile
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Click Google Buzz icon
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Click ‘Okay’
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Click the white space
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Type something
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Click ‘Insert Link’
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Type a Link
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Click Add Link
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Click any photo from the link you added to your post
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Click “Post”
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There’s your first Buzz post
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Click ‘Compose Mail’
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Type buzz@gmail.com
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We added buzz@gmail for posting earlier,
remember?
Type your message at the Subject line
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No, NOT in the Body, ok?
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✖
At the Subject Line
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I mean this . . .
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Click ‘Send’
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There’s your post in Buzz
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It’s from the email you sent to buzz@gmail.com
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Remember Picasa? We added it too,
right?
Type picasaweb.google.com on your browser
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Since you’re logged on to Google, Picasa assumes it’s you tyring to get in
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Just type your password
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Click Sign in
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Click ‘Upload’
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Create a new album
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Provide a Title
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Click Continue
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Click ‘Browse’
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Pick a photo from your computer
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The photo in the sample is a downloaded copy of
a photo from Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/
24662369@N07/4386822005#/photos/gsfc/4386822005/
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On the side I wish to demonstrate here how Picasa recognizes the photo and collects the credits for the photo
Click Open (Mac) or OK (Windows)
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Start Upload
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There’s the photo
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There’s the credit
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There it is in your Buzz
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But who’s gonna read your Buzz
posts?
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This is where Buzz promotion
comes in
Click on your name
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Click ‘Google Profile’
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Click ‘Add more info . . .’
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Put as much information here as you can
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Add a photo
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Upload a picture
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Crop the photo well
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Click ‘Apply Changes’
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Scroll down
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Fill up the other blanks
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Fill up Short bio, etc.
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Add URLs here
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Click Add
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Click this button
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Click ‘Save Changes’
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You’re now eligible to be featured in Google search
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Take note of this link
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Zooming in for a better view
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That is your profile URL
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Zooming in for better view
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Copy and paste your profile URL
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You will be using it a lot to promote
your Google Buzz
Click ‘Compose mail’
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Tell your friends about your Google Profile URL
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Click ‘Send’
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Your friend receives the mail
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He will click on the link
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Your friend sees your profile
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He will click “Follow”
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He can also ‘Block’ you
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When he follows you, this is what your freiend sees
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This is what you see
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Click it
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It’s a good idea to follow your followers as well
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Click ‘Done’
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Your profile gets updated
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Click Refresh
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Scroll down
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You see here the Buzz from people you follow
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Add your URL to your email signature
Click ‘Settings’
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Scroll down
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Click this button
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Invite your contacts to follow you in Google Buzz here
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Scroll down
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Click ‘Save Changes’
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Click ‘Compose mail’
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Your email now automatically contains your invitation
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In time, you will have many followers
Thanks for watching the slides.
Polite comments are welcome at http://virtualsidekick.blogspot.com
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Dream a life! Live your dreams!
Sid Macatol
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