Other Pages

My Buzz was strong before Google+.

Viewers see a strong list of my

publications. I see publications from

my five favorite writers.

Posts is where I can put out things I

like, whether I write them or not. I have

56 people who I know who have

Google+ pages and see whatever

I post there.

Some n00bs come on and post 50 times

a day. Or they used to. I don’t see

them anymore.

A lot of my favorite bloggers are

posting other things on their Google+

pages. I got back to following Eric

Raymond, the guy who invented open

source, though Google+.

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Google +

Your Personal Website

Fast!

Free!

Anywhere!

Dick Davies

http://bit.ly/DicksProfile

A New Tool

Google+ offers users an opportunity to

create a personal website that is fast,

free, and can be found by anyone on

the internet.

Fast – Your third attempt and after

takes less than ten minutes to make

major revisions or start a new site.

First and second attempts are about

learning the tool.

Free - Google+ works off your Gmail

account, Google’s free email service

with superior spam protection.

Already have another email address?

I have six email addresses plugged into

my Gmail browser. Postini spam

protection brought my spam-zombie

AOL account back to life.

Available – LinkedIn, Facebook and

other social networks require the

viewer be a member of that network.

Google+ is visible to anyone with an

internet browser. Better still, if they

don’t have your internet address,

Google Search does!

Google+ Parts

Let’s look at a Google+ site.

I use a custom URL shortener,

bit.ly/DicksProfile so viewers can get

there without using search. Googling

“Dick Davies” will also get you there.

The Edit Profile button opens you to

editing your profile. Before Google+,

I had built a Google Profile, the

forerunner. When I showed it to Jack,

he said it was the most efficient use of

web real estate, better than our four

websites, LinkedIn, Facebook, three

other social networks, and three blogs.

Let Google do the organizing.

If it wasn’t about you, you would

be impressed.

Owner Picture – People want to see a

picture to make sure they know you.

Last week I put in a new seersucker

picture, which took less than a minute.

My name and tagline are fully

configurable.

Photos – Mine are from Yahoo’s

Flickr, since I was using that before

Google’s Picasa, and these are images

from my blog posts.

Links

To the right, the Links Section is one of

the strongest features. This allows you

to showcase your best work on the web.

As you can see, I have organized my

links to interest potential clients.

Google Guys put up their technical

presentations, bit.ly/BruceWon has his

blog posts.

If you want to post a page, put it in

Google docs (part of your Gmail) and

connect that link to the name you

choose for it in the Links Section.

Capability Paragraph (center)–I pasted

mine from my LinkedIn page.

Employment – Please be interesting!

Note that they want your current

interest. No details about past

employers, which is so much better

than a resume!

Map – Was you dere?

Telephone numbers, email, birthday,

gender I hide. You can do what you

want.