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SocioloG+ presents Johnathan Chung's exhaustive compendium of Google+ tips, user guides, and other valuable online resources for getting the most of your Google+ experience.
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Elena Kalis
The crystal clear waters of the Bahamas make for the perfect surroundings for Elena to practice my favorite type of images, underwater photography.
Gavril Mikhailovich Pryedveshatin
Japanese high school English teacher Gavril enjoys photography, writing, hiking, fishing, cooking and cultural investigation.
Nathanael Card
Nathanael endeavors to perform and produce collaborative art that inspires his audience to learn more about themselves.
Latest Posts
Google+ Hangouts and the Future of Customer Service
by Ryan Crowe
Being personable and knowledgeable a must for future Customer Service Reps This is not just for brands, mind you, this is also for all of us consumers. I’ve worked in a call center before. It was a political call center, but still, I imagine the environment is the same for the stables of telephone customer service reps [...]
Dissociation: Associations and the Reality of Irrelevance
by Ryan Crowe
originally posted as a blog post on socialfish.org for my column “Social, In Theory” I was talking with the Empress of Socialfish herself, Maddie Grant, trying to plan out my Social, In Theory topic. Maddie had asked me if I had any thoughts on “associations”; I am, after all, about to be a freshly minted [...]
Is Virality Better Than Product Content?
by Ryan Crowe
Maybe some marketing or advertising blog-folk can tell me what’s up.. You may have seen me post this video a couple of time over the past week (on Google+/Twitter) . I’ve been curious to see whether or not this (old, from 2010) Subaru advertisement would gain “Likes” and “Engagement” on the YouTube end (going to [...]
Getting More People to Use Google+, Part IV: A Static User Hub and Re-examining Third Party Off-Site Elements
by Ryan Crowe
People like to see the fruits of their labor and third-party commenting platform tracking should only be the first step This is not a new thing… people have been talking about the transience of their G+ activity in the Stream since very early on. Activity on G+ is hard to keep track of unless you [...]
The Corruption of Social Media “Engagement”
by Ryan Crowe
(originally posted as a guest post at socialfish.org) Musings on social media hiring practices and social snake-oil salesmen. A word to the wise business owners, social media enthusiasts, social media professionals, recruiters et al: when someone in front of you talks about social media “engagement” and then fails to expound on their use of that [...]
Getting More People to Use Google+ Part III: Utility over Sentiment in Traditional Media Campaigns
by Ryan Crowe
The “Sentimental” traditional media campaigns are great, but we need “Utilitarian” messages! I am a fan of the gorgeous Google+ commercials which feature heart-touching moments between brides-to-be and their friends and fathers and their babies… but what we need is for Google to convey what is useful about Google+, and also – what is different [...]
Getting More People to Use Google+ Part II: Devolve to Evolve
by Ryan Crowe
Getting More People to Use Google+, Part II Creating Stand-alone G+ elements for websites to increase casual-user familiarity Part I, Introverts and Extroverts here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/115516333681138986628/posts/BXZdyGRxfA7 Background – Not Everyone is a “Power User” When I say “Power User” I don’t just mean people who are popular or influential on social networks, I’m talking about people [...]
Social Sentiment – a new currency?
by Ryan Crowe
…You Are Worth about 50 “Sents”. Social Sentiment, a new currency? The short answer is: yes. As companies continue to embrace social, they are going to look for numbers, numbers and more numbers. So, the social media department/girl/guy/team is going to start looking for these numbers and other bits of content to fill up their [...]
Getting More People to use Google+ Part I: Extroverts and Introverts
by Ryan Crowe
Getting More People to use Google+, Part I How Extrovert and Introvert personality type reversal on social media might be skewing perception of platform’s popularity Background In a phone call a couple of weeks ago, I was asked the question: “how can Google get more people to join Google+?”. The question came up in the [...]
Identifying the Intangibles in Community Managers and Social Media Strategists
by Ryan Crowe
This post was inspired by Google community managers, after being exposed to their work in June 2011, I became aware of the importance of their roles in a way in which I had previously had only a cursory knowledge. The openness of the Google team was an eye-opener for all in the social community and [...]
Social Media Research Tip – Infographic Source Mining
by Ryan Crowe
From Ryan Crowe ‘s Google+ profile Infographic source mining as a starting point Hey all you would-be/will-be/Arby social media enthusiasts. Ever wonder where to go to find all of the great info you find about social media/digital marketing? Here’s a quick-tip that I thought might be useful to share – you know all of [...]