Can You Create Better Content on Google+ Under a Pen Name?

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I’ve written about blogging anonymously (under a pen name) in the past, both here at the BlogWorld blog and on the Wright Creativity blog. I’ve made it no secret that I write and manage a fairly successful blog under a different name, and I think there are great reasons for doing so (though it is … [Read more]

Santa’s Ho Ho Hotline and Gmail Team Up

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Would you like to send someone a phone call from Santa? Now you can thanks to Santa’s Ho Ho Hotline and Gmail, who have teamed up together this Holiday season. You can send a personalized Holiday phone call to anyone in the U.S. or Canada, as well as give Santa a call and leave him … [Read more]

Google+ Makes Improvements to Pages

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Back at the beginning of November, Google announced they were opening up Google+ Pages, where brands and companies could connect with customers. Since the launch, Google+ has been listening to feedback from its users and have made some changes. Here are the Google+ Pages changes as highlighted on their official blog and in a video … [Read more]

The 12 New Media Days of Christmas 2011: 10 Google Plus Users a-Sharing

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During the 12 New Media Days of Christmas, we’re counting down the days until Santa comes by featuring some of the best blog posts of 2011 from awesome writers within the BlogWorld community! Skip to the end to read more posts in this holiday series and don’t forget to leave a comment if you’ve written … [Read more]

Google+ Adds a Seamless Way to Hangout

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Google+ announced a few new features to their Hangouts today in hopes to bring friends and family closer during the holidays. They make saying hello to your loved ones face-to-face easy and best of all – free. One new improvement is the ability to start a Google+ Hangout video chat from a status update. As … [Read more]

Introducing the New Drop-Down Google Menu

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Google has been on a six month journey updating their systems to a new look. From Search and News to Gmail, Maps and more, we’ve seen changes across the board. The team says their goal with these changes is “to create a beautifully simple and intuitive user experience across Google” and they announced yesterday another … [Read more]

How to Enable YouTube’s New Design Now

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Most likely you’ve heard about YouTube‘s new design that is coming soon. (Reportedly, some already have it.) Now you can have the chance to give it a test drive. Thanks to the people over at The Verge, we have the super secret (okay, it’s totally not a secret anymore) formula: In Firefox: Ctrl + Shift … [Read more]

New Google+ Feature – Chat with People in Your Circles

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If you’ve logged onto your Google+ account today, you may have noticed a little pop-up on the bottom right announcing a new feature. The message reads “New! Chat with the people in your circles. You can now chat with the people in your circles (who also have you in their circles). Change which circles you can … [Read more]

Use the Google+ Community Guide to Help Your Organization Thrive

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Have you created a page for your business on Google+ yet? They launched on November 7th and it sounds like companies, groups, politicians, sports teams and more ran over there and snagged their page quickly. (Be sure and add the BlogWorld & New Media Expo Google+ page to your circles.) After you created your page, … [Read more]

Google+ Launches the Google Photography Prize

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During the Google+ for Business session at BlogWorld LA, Guy Kawasaki made a comment about passionate people using the social network, which I highlighted. He said “For me, Facebook is for friends and family and Google+ is for people who share your passion that you don’t know yet. One group of passionate people whom he mentioned … [Read more]