Prioritize And Arrange Your Google Plus Circles

Google+ has updated the feature of Circles, had introduced new features by which you can arranger and prioritize your circle. If you have a healthy amount of Circles, and while sharing with frequent circle comes down in the list, it will get painful to share things with right people every time. To over come this problem, Google+ has added a feature to prioritize your Circles.

If you don't know the use of Circles in Google+, i will explain this in brief.

Circles in Google+ are to share right thing with right people. Many time you face a situation where you want something to share with limited number of people, like only with your family, brothers, friends, colleague or even with a single person. So you can make a set of those particular persons and share things very easily. To know more about Read Here



How To Prioritize/Arrange Your Circles

# To arrange circles in a specific order, go to Circles tab
# Just drag and drop the circles in the order you want and they will appear in the same order when posting in Stream.

This will make your sharing experience more better and easy.

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5 Tips & Ticks To Increase Your Followers In Google Plus

Its been 1 month that Google+ had launched, and its user's are increasing at an increasing rate. Google+ has already crossed 25 Million users in only its testing phase. Google+ is a advanced combination of Facebook & Twitter, with advanced features. In this early stage people are willing to get good number of Followers for them, so, We had made a very simple guide to increase your number of followers in Google+.




1. Find People Suggested By Google+ : A nice way to increase your followers are to find people which are suggested by Google+, Go to Circles tab, see the friends suggestions provided by Google+, that suggestions are the people which you may know or have some interest as you or something as per Google+ system. Adding them to your circle gives maximum chance that they will also Circle you and your number of followers will increase.



2. Always Sound Interesting: Be active in your profile and keep posting interesting stuff and post comments on people's status, but make sure it should sound interesting, because people don't like boring people. Posting interesting stuff will make people to share it and you will get followers.

3. Invite Your Friends And Other People To Google+ : Never lose a chance to invite people to Google+, it doesn't matter if they are your friends or not, Invite them if you get any opportunity, in early phase it is really going to help to increase your followers. When you invite anyone, he will surely follow you. Other social networks is a great help to find people seeking for invitation for Google+.

4. Follow Back Your Followers: This is very important reason if you are loosing your followers, If you will not follow your followers, they will kick you out from there Circle sooner or later. As you want people should follow you, others are also seeking same kind of response from you also, if you will not do this, you will start loosing your followers in a long run.

5. Add Google+ Profile Widget In Your Website Or Blog: If you own a website or a blog, place a Google+ widget which will help you to get followers from website/blog. Website or Blog with good number of traffic will surely help you to get good amount of followers.

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Record Google Plus Hangouts Video

Google+ is not having in build feature of recording a hangout, so if you wish to record your Hangout, you can try third party software's to record the Google+ Hangouts. This software is tested and it is free.

ScreenCastle, its a very handy and easy to use software, it records all your screen or you can also select the area you want to record

Just hit the Start Recording button and your recording will start, after that you have to upload video to the site, and you will get options to share or to download the video.

Now you can easily record your Hangouts and enjoy them later on.

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How To Integrate Google Plus Widgets Into Your Wordpress Website

If you want to integrate Google+ Widgets into your wordpress blog or website, So follow the steps to get Google+ Widgets.


Display your Google+ Profile on Wordpress Blog

PlusDevs is the website providing this widget, it is easy to use wordpress widget

Installation

1. Download googlecards.zip and unzip
2. Upload the unzipped googlecards folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
4. Go to the ‘Widgets’ menu in WordPress and add the widget to your sidebar.
5. Choose a title for the widget and input your google+ id. (You can find your google+ id by going to your profile, it is the 21 digit number e.g. plus.google.com/YOUR_ID_IS_HERE).

For complete information and code, you can visit: this website

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How To Invite Friends On Google Plus

If you had made account on Google+ and want to invite your friends to Google+. Here is how you can invite your friends to Google+ with their email id.

Sign in into your Google+ account

On the right side bar, under the Hangout, you will see "Send Invitations"

When you click on it, a box will open on the same screen asking for the email ids

Insert email id's, you can also insert multiple email id's to send invitation.

Click Invite, and your friends will receive invitation email, and they can also join Google+

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How To Change Your Real Name In Google+

Some people frequently love to update their status, and some love to update their names, no matter for what reason, following are two methods which will help you  steps by step to change your real name in Google+

Method #1

- Click Here and it will directly take you to the place where you can edit your name and some other information also.
- When Finished with editing your information, Click 'Save' button to complete the process.
Note: For this method to work, you need to be logged in to you Google+ Account before you click on the link.

In case, Method #1 doesn't work for you, try Method #2, which will surely work.

Method #2

- Sign in to your Google+ Account, and click on your name on the right side of the top bar

- From the drop down, click on 'Account Settings'

- It will open the account settings page, on this page in the section of Email addresses & Usernames, Click Edit

- Now you can edit your Name and some other info also. Click Save, and you are done.

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How To Send Or Forward Private And Personal Messages In Google Plus

Unlike Facebook or twitter, it is not obvious in Google plus how to send private messages. It requires a little bit knowledge on how Tricks work there. In Google plus, you can choose who can see your text messages.
You have greater flexibility than Facebook messages.

In Google+, you can choose individual person or circles and give access to your message. If you choose one or more circles and give access to your messages, all members in those circles can see your message.

Following is detailed How to send private or personal message in Google+


First type your message in Stream, and type the name of the person or circle with whom you want to share that message, you can select multiple persons or cicles.

When done with message and person name, Hit Share button, so that message will open be visible to the person or circle with whom you want.

This is how your message can be visible to all those person u want.

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How to tag someone in google plus

Tagging is very simple here(google plus tagging)
You can simply tag your friends in any post by putting either the + or the @ symbol in front of their name. Just like Facebook a drop down list will show up once you start typing with suggestions from your friends.
Also, You can tag people you are not connected to which brings me to how to NOT allow people to tag you. This is controlled in your settings panel under “People whose tags of you are automatically approved to link to your Profile:”

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How To Hide Friends In Google+ Circles

Google+ also have a common feature as Facebook have, we can also hide friends in your circles from public view.

Just below your profile photo you will see the icons of people you have put in circles.You can simply edit the settings and make the changes.

Please refer the image :-

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Using Google+ With Keyboard Only [Hotkeys]

Keyboard shortcuts are always very helpful to work fast in any software and Google+ had also keep in mind to make Hot keys for their product.  Here are the list of Keyboard shortcuts/hotkeys to use Google+ without the use of a mouse.





j: In the stream, you can click ‘j’ to navigate down to the next item

k: Navigate up. 

@ or +: mention someone in a post

q: While on the Home tab, press twice the q letter on the keyboard to search and add people to your chat list.

Space Bar: Scroll down stream.

Shift + Space Bar: Scroll up stream.

Tab: Scrolls through comments/users on a post

Enter: Hitting Enter when focused on a Post opens up the comment box.

Tab + Enter: End comment.

Here are few more shortkeys.

Being able to use shortcuts when posting or commenting is very useful. Here are a few shortcut keys while in Google plus.
Q open chat
K scroll up within a single post
J scroll down within a single post
Return or Enter Start a comment
Tab and Return End a comment
Space Bar Scroll down your stream

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How To Post GIF in Google+

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You must have seen cool animated gif's in the steam of Google+, If you don't know how to post gif's in the stream, no worries, here's the guide to help you post gif in stream and share it will all.

Save the gif picture in your computer, you want to share on Google+

When Login, Click on 'Add photos' button in the Stream Bar. See the graphic below:

Then from the drop down menu click on 'Add photos'

Browser the picture you want to upload, open it, and it will start uploading, then select the Circles with whom you want to share the picture and click on share.

Here are some of cool gif's you may like to share with your friends

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How To Use Circles In Google+

In Google+, Circles has made it very easy to categories your friend list, you can make different Circles with kind of friend group, this is a guide how to use and optimize your Circles.

If you don't invitation to join Google+, Get one here.
Following is the Circles screen:

There are some pre-made circles (ex: Friends, Family, Acquaintances.. etc), Click on Find and Invite tab, Find your friends and family and add them to your Circles. Just Drag that person from above to your Circle, and the person will be added to your group, you can add same person to different circles also. But what is the benefit of adding a single person to multiple Circles? Well, I will explain it with a example, like if you always want to share something with your friends and one person in your office circle, so you can also add him your friends Circle, so you will not have to mention his name while you post something on stream.

Now what if you have to create a new Circle? It is as easy as it was to add people to Circles. Simply Drag the person to the white circle which is on the extreme left side of all Circles, when done, click on 'Create Circle' as illustrated below

Then give name to your Circle, and its done!

Now you have learned how to create and add people to your circles.

Now lets come to, How to manage your Circles.

If you had dropped someone, the in wrong Circle. Then mouse over on the Circle in which you have dropped the person, it will show you all people in the circle, drag the wrong person out o the Circle, and put him in the Circle where that person should be.

How to delete a Circle?

Click on the Circle you wish to delete and it will show you options for edit. Click 'Delete this Circle' and the Circle will be deleted.

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Integrate Your Facebook Account Into Google+

Like Twitter, now you can also integrate your Facebook account, You can see all your Facebook stream inside of Google+.

Just install a simple Addon to your browser, connect your Facebook Account with Google+ and you are done..!

Click Here to install the Google+Facebook Addon

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Hide All Google+ Notifications [Chrome]

Don't want to receive notifications of Google+ of what there friends are doing whenever you login into your Google Accounts, Here's an little Addon for Google Chrome, Just Click Hereand install the Addon in your Google Chrome browser, currently Google Chrome only supports this feature.

If you don't have Google Chrome, Download From Here

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Intigrate Your Twitter Account In Google+

Now you can intigrate your Twitter account in Google+, Just install a simple extension into your browser and get a Twitter button within your Google+ dashboard. Click here and than click on "Get Google+ Tweet" and install it.

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How To Make Personalized Google+ URL

Google+ doesn't offers a vanity URL for your profile, unlike Facebook and Twitter. Instead of vanity URL Google+ has used a long number string to denote users, which make it difficult to share it with friends (eg: 116010836063886273463)

The reason Google+ doesn’t use vanity URLs is because those could lead to spammers figuring out the email addresses of millions of Google+ users (since many Google Accounts are linked to Gmail accounts).

Now at this point, GPlus.to comes into play

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Import Facebook Contacts To Google+ via Yahoo

Most of people must be waiting for the chance to use Google+ as a new social network, but finding all your friends from facebook and add them you Google+ would be a hectic. Though there is not a direct way to import your facebook contact to Google+, and i dont think so facebook will provide this feature :P, but still you can manage to import facebook contact to Google+, It can be done with the help of facebook connect, its a little lengthy process, but it actually works.

To start this process, log in to your yahoo account, link your facebook account in yahoo through facebook connect, then goto contact and import all your facebook friends, If you find it difficult, Check this simple guide for this step.

When done importing, log into your Google+ account and from Find and Invite page you can import all your yahoo contacts including facebook contact... its not a direct method, but doing this much is worthy at least :)

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