The Google+ Guide: Circles, Photos, and Hangouts

Learn how to use Google+ to share on the web--and share what you want! Google+ has 25 million-plus users and growing fast. Covers setting up and managing Google+, both browser and mobile versions, and focus on how to share and follow exactly what you want. As Google+ expands its social service, author will write new digital chapters, available to book purchasers free through 2012. This approachable, four-color book will offer readers a thorough guide to using Google+, Googles answer to the challenge it faces from Facebook, Twitter, and all other ways people are being social on the web. After covering the fundamentals of being social on the web, the book will dig into how to set up and manage Circles, control the Stream, share photos and video, use Hangouts, get the most out of Sparks, and use games. There will be coverage of photography and building communities around photography. The book will also cover using the iOS and Android Google+ apps. Because Google will expand Google+ after the book is released (adding business profiles and apps, for example), the author will write periodic updates to the book in the form of new digital chapters, available for free to purchasers. The updates will guarantee that readers will have access to the most up to date information and their books will not grow obsolete as Google+ expands. Updates will be available through 2012.