These are the slides from my talk on Google+ at the UCISA "Social Media in Training" event, hosted by the University of Salford at MediaCityUK in April 2012. For more information please see http://lanyrd.com/cfrkc and http://martinh.net
UCISA Social Media for Training - What Does Google+ Mean for Me?
1. What Does Google+
Mean for Me?
+Martin Hamilton, Loughborough University
+Ross Mahon, Google
UCISA Using Social Media for Training event
#UCISASoMe
These slides: http://goo.gl/81Dyi
2. What is Google+ ?
Circles help you organize everyone according to your real life connections
Hangouts let up to 10 people video conference at no charge
Hangouts with Extras - this is a testbed for new features
Stream lets you have conversations and share information with circles
Search allows you to search Google+ posts, Google+ people, and the web
Profile lets you control how you apear on Google services across the web
Instant Upload automatically sends photos and videos to a private album
Messenger allows you to bring people together for group mobile messaging
Google+ Pages shared spaces for brands, organizations etc
3. Why Should I Care?
0 to 170m users in 1 year
~120 integrations with
other Google products
850K Android activations
per day
Available with institutional
Google Apps domains
11. Some Education Use Cases
Remote IT support (platform neutral)
Engaging with pre-sessional students,
alumni, student clubs and societies
Online tutorial groups, part time distance
learners, working over multiple campuses
Inter-institutional research collaboration,
developing papers and funding proposals
12. Google+ for Apps Domains
Optional - users have to sign up individually
Can share posts with the whole domain, e.g.
everyone at Loughborough University
Circles != Groups
Death of the VLE predicted :-)
13. Wrapping Up
Google Confidential and Proprietary
14. Conclusions
Google+ is "social spine", cutting across the
whole range of Google services
Nuanced approach to privacy and sharing
Google are very keen to develop the service
based on your feedback
You (still) ain't seen nothing yet!
17. What Does Google+
Mean for Me?
+Martin Hamilton, Loughborough University
+Ross Mahon, Google
UCISA Using Social Media for Training event
#UCISASoMe
These slides: http://goo.gl/81Dyi