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Clearing the Browser Tabs – All Your Google Plus Are Belong To Me Monday Edition Posted: 11 Jul 2011 03:10 AM PDT I’ve been tinkering around with the new Google Plus social media platform for a bit over a week and I have to say, I like it. I’ve never been a big fan of Facebook (I still don’t have a personal page and I added a fan page for The Delivery only grudgingly). As of this morning, you can start your own account, though there’s no way to know whether that will be true later in the day. Since Google+ is in “field trials” — their fancy way of saying “big, wide open beta test” — the team has been throttling how many people they allow in at any given time. I don’t know if they’ll cap the number of users at some point, so you might as well get in now if you can. If you want to know what all the fuss is about, my friend Tania wrote up her initial impressions of Google+ at her blog Midnight Says. It’s a pretty solid post that should give you enough basic information to whet your appetite. The crew at Mashable is on the case, too and they have a couple good posts that complement Tania’s quite well. If you want to add me to your Circles (or “follow” me, in Twitter parlance), my profile is right here. And now, links! Start with this solid, basic Google+ cheat sheet. Graduate to this: the Grandmama of all Google+ help documents. It is a collaborative project constantly updated by several Google+ users and includes not only text but also helpful videos. When I first saw it, it was about 2 pages long. It’s now much longer than that. I’m willing to bet, though, that the answer to any usability question you may have lies within. Here are a few ways you can make your Google+ posts more private. Circles work a little bit the way followers do in Twitter, but also a little but like followers do on Facebook? Confused? Here’s a flowchart to help you figure out if one of your posts can be seen by a given Google+ user. Admittedly, it’s not the most elegant way to handle post flow, but it gets easier to grok after you’ve used it for a couple or three days. Here are a few very nice miscellaneous tips on everything from how to format text to how to add individuals to your posts and Hangout invites.

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