Google Plus Walkthrough Video

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Edit: I’m aware of the audio prob­lems. Time was a fac­tor in get­ting this video out to its intended audi­ence.

I haven’t writ­ten a walk­through, review or any other com­men­tary of Google+, despite the fact that I’ve been using it since late in the first round of invites. (And just to be clear, when I got invited isn’t the point, the point is, I’ve been using it long enough to form the opin­ion that is about to fol­low, late enough to have missed directly inter­act­ing with folks like Mark Zucker­berg, but early enough to not be dis­cussing Google+ as a reg­u­lar topic of conversation.)

Mostly because I feel like it hasn’t been long enough to write a proper review. We’re still in the stages where most peo­ple are just talk­ing about the tool and how much they like it, hate it, don’t under­stand what the fuss is, or think it’s going to change the world. I believe it’s too early to tell.

And now, it’s start­ing to get lonely in there with mostly techies and a cou­ple of mar­ket­ing people.

Still, I’m adding peo­ple to my own stream spar­ingly, but I’ve found that this doesn’t mean I can’t invite peo­ple. So. If you get my newslet­ter, you’ll get the link to this page. And if you get the link to this page, you can watch the video for instruc­tions on how to get an invite.

Oh, and if you’re already on Google+, you can fol­low me. But I’m very slow to add peo­ple into my cir­cles. Just saying.

In this video:

  • What is Google+ in a nutshell?
  • What will you see when you accept an invite?
  • A cou­ple of tips on using it.
  • How to get a Google+ invite from me with­out expos­ing your email address to the whole world. (Please don’t do that. Fol­low the direc­tions in the video.)

    • PS - You’ve prob­a­bly noticed that I haven’t tweeted this link, shared it on Face­book, or even posted it to my flag­ship blog that gets so much more traf­fic and atten­tion than this one. That’s because I wanted YOU to have the chance to get the invites before I ask other peo­ple to come in.

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    Jul 11, 2011

    15 Comments

    1. Linda S
      July 12, 2011

      Hi Tinu, Very nice work with the walk­through. It gave me a good sense of what things do and where to look for ‘em. I only found the audio annoy­ing at the very start — I sort of got used to it after that. I’m par­tic­u­larly inter­ested in non­profit (i.e., shoe­string!! lol) mar­ket­ing. And of course, curi­ous how small non­prof­its will take to Google+. In fact, think­ing about how to pitch it to the board of the group I’m work­ing with now!

      • Tinu
        July 12, 2011

        Thanks Linda. Still gonna try to fix that audio. :)

        There’s a whole MESS Of non-profit peo­ple in my cir­cles at Google+. But it’s too soon to intro­duce it because Google’s only allow­ing per­sonal pro­files at the moment. I hope they have some­thing really in-depth planned for Busi­ness profiles.

    2. Jim
      July 12, 2011

      Thanks Tinu for the walk­through. It’s going to be inter­est­ing to see whether this affects any other social net­works. The cir­cles cer­tainly seems pretty good.

      • Tinu
        July 12, 2011

        Hope­fully I get the audio issue under con­trol. Glad you found it useful.

        It’s already affect­ing other social net­works, but there’s a recent arti­cle that sup­poses that the point of Google+ isn’t to dom­i­nate, it’s to force more open­ness. Their data porta­bil­ity is quite attrac­tive. You can export just about any­thing, by cat­e­gory (down­load all pics or all posts, etc).

    3. Find Bank Online
      July 12, 2011

      Google +1 is very effec­tive social net­work­ing. Its look is very inter­est­ing and directly con­nected with google data­base. It is just like face­book like button.

      • Tinu
        July 12, 2011

        True. But we’re talk­ing about Google+ not Google +1.

    4. Dr Wright
      July 12, 2011

      Thanks, this is cool, I am now in. It seems like a lot of social media work!

      • Tinu
        July 12, 2011

        At first, yeah, it felt like it was going to be a lot of work.

        But really the main part after you fill in your pro­file is in decid­ing whether or not you’re going to com­part­men­tal­ize your audi­ence into cir­cles, and if so, how dili­gently. I have three main cir­cles, and then a bunch of smaller ones so I can really seg­ment into sub-topic.

        But it might not be worth that to you. For now, I’d focus on three cir­cles, Friends, Peers and Fol­low­ing. Any­one who isn’t some­one you’re closely bonded to or know through work goes into Fol­low­ing. You can always sort them later or just not fol­low them at all.

        That’s the upside, you don’t even have to fol­low peo­ple who are fol­low­ing you if you don’t want to hear what they have to say every day.

    5. Jason Hodge
      July 12, 2011

      Hey Tinu,

      Thanks for the walk-through. I’ve been on Google+ mov­ing around the space myself lately, kick­ing some tires and see­ing if it’s going to take off and really be a tool as opposed to just one more thing to add to the noise. I’m still going to play around with it, but agree with some of the points you made about it. I think it’s to early to tell if this is going to be a game changer.

      I like the fact that Google put it out [that’s what made me take a look at it], so we’ll see.

      Love to hear more!

      Best,
      Jason

      • Tinu
        July 12, 2011

        Agreed. Def­i­nitely too early to tell. Hope we run into each other. :)

    6. Pierre
      July 12, 2011

      0OO0OH man.

      How are you Tinu? thank you so much for tak­ing your time to make that video for us. The audio didn’t like me that much lol. Lol please stop doing that with your eyes.(*_^)
      Pierre

      • Tinu
        July 12, 2011

        Con­trol­ling the thing with the eyes as much as I can. It’s med­ical and to an extent I can’t help it — that’s why I haven’t done much video. Thanks for mak­ing me even more self-conscious about it, LOL.

        With the audio, I’m a low talker, and had to do this with­out a head­set. Cou­ple of days play­ing with it in Cam­ta­sia, this is the best I got. Will upload sub­ti­tles as soon as I can.

        How YOU doin?

    7. Stevie Knight
      July 12, 2011

      The audio was a bit chal­leng­ing but the walk through was awe­some! Thanks for the overview.

      It will be inter­est­ing to see how peo­ple use google+ dif­fer­ently fom the other sites and if it will catch on after the ini­tial curios­ity has worn off…Looking for­ward to try­ing it. Thanks much, Tinu!

      • Tinu
        July 12, 2011

        Will do my best with the audio. I’m get­ting there but as dis­cussed above, this was the best cir­cum­stances would allow as I wanted to get this out while invites were still open. They close fairly quickly.

        As as whether Google+ will catch on: there was an arti­cle I read today that made the best point — Google+ is the first social net­work that was actu­ally built to BE a social net­work. All the other big ones today started as some­thing else and were sort of hacked into a new thing.

        I don’t think it will replace Twit­ter or Face­book or LinkedIn — each is appro­pri­ate for a cer­tain type of dia­logue. Google+ is also not fin­ished yet — the devel­op­ers told us that when they released it, it’s not even near ready to be called com­pleted and already some feel it is on far with Facebook.

        Too soon to tell, but now that the chat­ter on Google+ is no longer about Google+, it’s still hold­ing up.

    8. Daniel-Catalin Cretu
      July 12, 2011

      Great post… Thanks for invite :) …
      Illusion4u

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