Got a notification this morning on Google+... it made me cringe, so I put this deck together. Hopefully some of these ideas can become a reality. Maybe Google+ could actually be mind-blowingly awesome... but not at the moment!

1. Why Google+
Can’t Engage
... and how they could should ...

2. Awesome notification
today!

3. Okay, since you asked...

4. ...clicks ‘Say
hello’...

5. The pre-populated post to
+Rand

6. The pre-populated post to
+Rand
What a GREAT way to introduce oneself...

7. The pre-populated post to
+Rand
What a GREAT way to introduce oneself...

8. #Facepalm

9. Google hire’s some of the
smartest folk on this planet, and
all they can think of to engage
users on G+ and make their social
network ambitions a reality is...
“What’s up?”

10. Sure, he’d really appreciate that...
Rand, you have 754 new notifications. They more or less say the same thing. What do you want to do?
Share with my circles Spend my weekend all each of these... Leave Google+
What is up?
Wazzup!
What’s up bro? Wazzup!
Wazzup! What is up?
Wazzup!
Wazzup!

11. How Google+
should engage

12. Awesome notification
today! You have
rel=author...
You know what I’ve
Hmmm... He’s that SEO blogger you read every day. Why not thank
him here Google+ ? +1’d...
Maybe talk about his
particularly epic
You have this G+
Whiteboard Friday’s you
tell the world about on connection...
Twitter. He obviously
wants to hear from you :)
Use them together to
create context like
this!

13. Another awesome
notification! You have Google
Just to let you know, we think he’s in town next week. We’ve already
booked your ticket to a meetup he’s talking at. BYOB ;) Calendar...
You have Google
Maps...
You have a sense of
humour...

14. More awesome
notifications... You have +1 data...
You have the link
graph...
We figure your blog could do with a viral hit. How about asking Rand
for an interview? You could even record it on Google+ hangouts! :) You have keyword
data...
You know what
people like to share
and link to!

15. People *LOVE*
this kind of interaction

16. Please make
Google+
into something
like this...
(you have the data already)
*cough* search “google social connections” *cough*

17. Ed Fry
@edfryed
https://plus.google.com/115806047742629766262/ (lol jks no one will remember
that)