1. Google Plus Peta Hopkins – http://innvate.blogspot.com

2. What is it? Social networking site Sharing content Links Photos Video Communicate Commenting Chat Video conferencing Field trial Invitations

3. Major Features Sparks Suggested articles on topics Easily shared Circles Social circles Designate who you share content with Drag and drop Streams Yours Circles Public

4. Mobile vs Desktop Interfaces Desktop version of site Mobile version of site Android & iPhone apps Desktop - Hangouts Group video chat Games Photo & Video Uploads

5. Mobile vs Desktop Mobile Checkins Instant photo uploads Huddles – group messaging

6. How does it compare with Facebook and Twitter Feature sets Lauren Dugan’s Infographic – How is Google+ like Twitter and Facebook? http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/how-is-google-like-twitter-and-facebook-infographic_b11782 http://goo.gl/RmCYP July 22 2011

7. Business Interests Customer Service Hangouts to meet with customers and deliver help desk services Business Profiles Driving web traffic Integration with other Google products One-stop-shop productivity hub? Larry Kim’s The Social Media Showdown: Google+ Beating LinkedIn, Closing In On Twitter, Facebook Infographic reported 15.42% of traffic coming from Google+ http://goo.gl/0DFof [1 August 2011]

8. Conversations http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/08/rant-googles-real-names-policy-is-evil/ http://goo.gl/Y4zXC Real Names Policy A challenge for those with genuine online identities that are not real names Challenges & Speculation Competition in the market http://goo.gl/afwnz

9. Innovations Google Plus Counter http://gpc.fm/ created by Ralf Rottmann Chrome Extensions for Google Plus

10. What do you think? No Ads  - but will that last? Needs APIs – to make sharing easier

11. Follow up on these Google Plus – Scoop It - http://www.scoop.it/t/all-google-plus Axel Aigret’s collection of articleshttp://goo.gl/6ftS1 Peta’sDiigo links tagged google+ - http://www.diigo.com/user/petahopkins/google%2Bhttp://goo.gl/p8w38 Google+ topic on Quora - http://www.quora.com/Google+ Questions and answershttp://goo.gl/9slVg

12. Social Media Club Gold Coast Website http://smcgoldcoast.com Twitter @SMCGC Facebook Page - http://www.facebook.com/smcgc