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Scott Brown, Owner
Social Information Group
January 19, 2012
SLA San Francisco Chapter
GOOGLE + = ?
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AGENDA 2
Google + = ? What makes it unique
Some ideas on mining it for information Tracking people, organizations, topics
Managing your own information
What’s next?
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3 © fotolia
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WH
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T?
• Google’s version of a social network
• “Professional Facebook”
• Integrated with Google stuff – even more so now
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WH
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A brief history • Launched June 2011
• Quickly gained 40 million users
• Originally focused on individuals
• November 2011: Launched business pages
• Estimates are 62 million users as of December 2011, with hundreds of thousands joining every day
• As of January 2012, results integrated into search
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The latest – G+ results added to Google search results
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Why do people keep “adding me to their circles”, dammit?
• Any G+ user can an add anyone else to their circles
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Why do people keep “adding me to their circles”, dammit?
• Any G+ user can an add anyone else to their circles – see?
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WHAT MAKES IT UNIQUE?
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• Profile
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• Posts/discussions (aka Streams)
• Photos
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• “Hangouts”
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The special stuff
• “+1”
• Circles
• Pages (as opposed to Profiles)
• “Sparks”
• “Ripples”
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+1 = Endorsement
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Circles
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Circles
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Google + Pages
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Google + Pages
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Google + Sparks
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Google + Ripples
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SOME IDEAS
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© fotolia
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• Use +1 as a new kind of social bookmarking service • Like Facebook with Delicious
capabilities
• Sparks as an alternative news search • What’s being shared the most?
• Ripples to see connections and
influencers • Find and follow people and pages
of interest
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LCES
• For sharing information • For finding information
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How are companies thinking about circles?
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TRACKING
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PEO
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•Thought leaders • Industry leaders •Organizational people
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• Organizational page(s) • Competitor pages • Competitor employees
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Tracking organizations
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TOP
ICS
• Thought leaders (again)
• Saved searches
• Industry circles
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MANAGING YOUR OWN INFORMATION
unprofound - Jim
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Settings and privacy • Circle visibility
• Profile visibility
• Sharing options
• Include personal search results?
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Profile view
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WHAT’S NEXT? unprofound - Jim
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Recent developments
• Of course, G+ search results
• Multiple administrators for organization pages
• Watch for new developments
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Will it last?
Impossible to say.
Remember Google Wave?
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Will it kill Facebook?
Impossible to say.
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Finally:
Should I bother with it?
Yes.
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Finally:
Should I bother with it?
Why?
• Adoption is massive
• Information is being shared – and you can leverage it both for finding and sharing
• It’s still evolving
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Next steps
• Check it out – without logging in.
• Sign up.
• Create some circles of interest to you, and see how it works.
• Keep watching it.
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Scott Brown
Social Information Group
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @scbrown5 and @socialinfo
Google +: Scott Brown - [email protected]
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/scottrbrown
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THANKS
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• Google + : http://plus.google.com
• Google + support (including “how tos”: http://support.google.com/plus/?hl=en
• Google + social network lets firms have their own pages: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15625577
• With Facebook in crosshairs, Google + opens for business: http://adage.com/article/digital/google-open-business/230862/
• Google Plus pages for libraries: http://joemurphylibraryfuture.com/google-pages-for-libraries
• Is Google + a Plus for Information Pros? The Information Advisor, September 2011
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• Google’s results get more personal with “Search Plus Your World”: http://searchengineland.com/googles-results-get-more-personal-with-search-plus-your-world-107285
• Google to provide personal search results: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/01/11/BUM81MN9JV.DTL
• 3 successful Google + pages and why they work: http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/3-successful-google-pages-and-why-they-work/