The Vice President of Google Explains G+

There is a lot of information coming on now on how to use Google Plus, or G+. If you are already on several social sites you are probably wondering why you even need Google Plus. If you are happy with what you are doing, why change, right?

I was not understanding it completely myself and I wondered what all the fuss was about, but they are now at over 4 million users in a very short time. That is super incredible.

You can not go on Google Plus and be Rockin Rick’s Harleys. You have to be Rick Real (if that is your real name) to start, because Google Plus is about who the users really are. However, now Google is rolling out Business Pages, and Brand Pages. Therefore, we all might see a page for Rick’s business very soon (but I randomly picked this name, so if someone has this business please let me know, and if this article helped it).

While I am not an authority on Google Plus, I do use it and was one of the early users, so have seen changes. I do not have thousands of followers, yet, because I do not throw random content out there.

I recommend checking out Google Plus. If you need an invitation leave me a comment and I will send you one. You should be able to join without one, but you have to have a free Gmail account. Let me know if you need one of those, too.

Here is the interview that I was fortunate enough to find earlier today.

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Will Watching The Movie FaceBook Help Your Business

I use Google Buzz, Twitter, FaceBook, and some other social sites like WomVegas. They each serve a good purpose. I also started using Cinch for broadcasts, but have not done many. I am also signed up to use Blog Talk Radio, and am going to use that at work more. However that one about Blog Talk Radio is for another time and post.

Twitter is for fast postings and once in a while I add a link for some Amazon product or another business opportunity. Of course most of you know that already if you have been alive for a few years.

FaceBook is great for more interactions with people around the world. I find it is difficult to have a really serious conversation there though. Maybe because most of my FaceBook “friends” are either from online businesses or from my day job, or from my online games….did I just let it out that I still play online games?

How many people get involved in FaceBook games? Even Chris Lang has been seen using some of the FaceBook games (sorry to let that one out Chris). I pretty much avoid those though.

Now back to the topic at hand. Can watching the movie FaceBook help your business? What do you think? I wanted this topic to be more of a discussion than anything else. I have not watched the movie, but it is creating lots of discussions over at Google Buzz.

It seems that several of the successful people who make money on the internet are great at coding and diving behind what you see when you use the computer or any website. Applications are where it is at. If I had to go back to school, or maybe one day when I have extra time, I might even consider doing that.

Would you rather go watch a movie like FaceBook or read a book about successful people? I have heard so many different reviews about the movie. I wonder if it would somehow change my life if I saw it.

I hear there is drug use in the movie and a whole lot of profanity. Those are things I choose to avoid. How much of that is necessary to the story line? Do you have to use profanity and drugs to be successful in these times? Could they have left that out of the movie?

I am noticing more and more that profanity in the “mainstream” is becoming more and more acceptable. Is that true? Am I going off on a tangent here?

Well, back to the topic…I read that some people who saw the movie FaceBook really felt it gave them some insight into the struggles that Mark Zuckerberg had to face (book). They have a greater appreciation for him.

Now I think, it is Hollywood, and movies can tell the truth that they make up to get people to pay to buy the product. It is HOLLYWOOD. It is a STORY. I have heard that is it BASED on Mark Zuckerberg, but not exactly the way it was. I makes me think of all the movies about wars and the impact they made depending on the times when they were released.

What do you think? I welcome your comments.

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For years now Chris Lang has been my friend, and I see more and more people who I have online connections with getting connected with Chris Lang, too. It is nice when you can see the web spiders, work to spider your connections, too. This is not the same as Search Engine Spiders, but it is “Social Network Spider-webbing” to use another term. (Maybe that is another of my original terms but who knows, you heard it here, first then it is. September 18-2010).

The importance of going social is one I have talked about for years, and meeting Chris Lang on a social networking site has contributed to my knowledge of several of the big sites. That is a positive thing. Chris has some awesome connections, and you can learn a lot from them. They are highly motivated people. Being around people like this is necessary in a world filled with too much negativity.

Chris has a lot of You Tube Videos and this is his most recent on Google Predictions. Chris does a lot of homework, so I do not have to stay aware of all of it, but I can watch his videos to see what is new in the world of Social Networking.

I am watching this more than once because there is a lot of information in it. Listen for keywords, “Google Buzz”, “Google Me”, “Google Wave”, and “Google Friend Connect”.

It is a shame that Google’s attempts at mastering the Social Networking field have not been successful in the general public’s views so far. I have enjoyed using GFC, and Google Buzz. I could not get into Google Wave, but I hope they do not ditch that application completely. I don’t think they will.

If you are a serious blogger, and whether you have Word Press or Blogger, you need to be aware of what Google is doing and you should spend 10 minutes to watch this video. Please leave a comment to let me know if you have and what you think.

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My First Review Of Google Buzz

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I titled this My First Review of Google Buzz because I am hoping that there will be more reviews of Google Buzz to follow this one.  I am writing this on the fly so hopefully it will make sense.

First of all, I am so surprised to see how few of the people in my contact list on my one of my older gmail accounts even have a Google Profile.  If you are using Google, take the time to make your profile. If you are socially minded at all on the net you should make a Google profile.

Why should you have a Google profile?  I bet you think you are going to be hounded by spam mail.  That is going to happen if you use the internet at all it seems, however, you can decide who to give access to, and who not to give access to.

Now on to more of the review.  (Google developers are you going to read this?)

I think I will bullet this and do my best not to have it go into a rant and rave sort of thing, but just my honest thoughts.

First of all my background as a techie-geek-amateur.  I realize I am not a coder.  What I know about the computer comes from reading lots of help menus.  I can build my own computer and build a website that is basic (extremely basic).  I enjoy the social parts of the internet.  I use Facebook, Twitter, and most recently WomVegas for my social sites.  However I have started getting to know people who use Google Buzz.  Oh I also have a few YouTube videos, but not as many as I should.

  1. I noticed the icon for Google Buzz in my Gmail account a while ago, but was not sure what it was all about.  Did I miss the email sent out to Google account holders that told about Google Buzz?  Was there one?  (I hope if you know, and got an email, that you can put that email in a comment here.
  2. It seems when I want to know what is happening with Google I find out from one loyal internet friend, Chris Lang.  I feel Google Buzz should reward Chris Lang for all he does to keep people like me informed of what is going on.  I dedicate this post to Chris Lang. Google could learn a lot about reaching people with limited time to do their own research the way Chris Lang can, and put everything into words that amateur or non-techie people can use.  Google, you need to be in more contact with your users, and have a suggestion box (or hire Chris Lang as a consultant).
  3. Thanks to Chris letting me know about the Buzz once something I posted showed up there, I started getting interested in Google Buzz.  Seriously I do not know how I got something I wrote to appear on Google Buzz, but it must have been meant to be.  This is why I am writing this review.  I like the people I have met on the Buzz.  So far the talk has been educational.  It comes from they types of people who I do not get to interact with outside of the day job because I live quite an isolated existence after work.
  4. How many people are there like me in the world?  I like to learn new things daily and interact with people who do interesting things and want to share them.  I like being around positive people who I can have a discussion with.  How can you meet people like this when you work more than full time and then try to run an online business after the day job is over, and do all the other domestic stuff to keep your house in some what livable order and your clothes from looking like you slept in them?
  5. What did #4 there have to do with my review of Google Buzz?  Everything! Google Buzz developers need to realize what they have created and make it easier to access.  When I am in my Gmail account, I want to do Gmail stuff.  I do not want to be distracted by Buzz, and then forget to check my email because I run out of time.
  6. There are features where you can turn Google Buzz comments off in your received email files.  That is great.  Am I missing the part where I can access Buzz without going into Gmail? I would like that feature.  I will have to go back and check my Google Profile to see if I can access it there.
    You can get access to all of your own comments and the replies to it by going to your Google Profile. Did I mention that you need a Google Profile to use Buzz?
  7. I think there is a huge potential for Google Buzz for people who want to have discussions on a variety of topics where they want to have them open  for friends of friends to comment.  I enjoy getting to know friends of friends this way.  As mentioned earlier, where can you go to meet people to have a great conversation with now days?  If you are a non drinker, it is really difficult to talk to someone you have not met.
  8. Other pluses for Google Buzz can be for specific group interactions.  If you are in business this can be another way to have an open meeting without being face to face.  I see it as being great for brainstorming sessions.  Each Buzz has a central topic created by the one who started it.  I see great potential here that you can not get on Twitter and Facebook.

To sum it all up, I feel that Google has created another good platform with Buzz, but I wonder if it is just the Beta version for Google Me.  That is what a lot of Google users are talking about.  A Google social site with geographic tie ins.    Some Buzz users seem very skeptical that Buzz will be here today and gone tomorrow, as Google moves on to their next phase of testing the social waters.

How many of you remember Yahoo Groups?  I remember joining a few of them.  Yahoo was ahead of the social networking craze with Yahoo Groups.  Yahoo has a great platform for Blog users who have any type of Blog with MyBlogLog. It does not matter if you use Blogger, WordPress or another blog format. This is another way that Yahoo lead the pack in organizing groups of people with similar interests.

I mentioned Yahoo because I feel what they were doing from the start to get people to have places to share ideas was way ahead of Google. Google was not set up to be social. However, Google has seen that people are basically social. We have less time and money to go hang out in clubs to have meaningful discussions (?), so there is an area they can tap into.

My opinion is that people like Google. There is just something about it that we like. I like the no frills searching where I can get to my search destination without being distracted along the way. Gmail is incredible. There was and is a lot of thought that is in Gmail. I think that is why I hold on to the belief that Google can build a great social site eventually.

Google has the sorting features down and the grouping features down in Gmail. I hope that with Google Buzz we can see the developers taking it to a great feature for those of us who want to use it.

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What Is WomVegas?

Hello Readers!
Are you looking for some free internet coaching? While it might not seem like you are getting coaching, there is a lot of it going on at this site.
womVegas is the best new social site around.

womVegas is about to launch, but the owner and worker bee, and solo coder is making is a great place to be. If you like Twitter and/or Facebook, you are going to love womVegas. I find it way more friendly than all of the other social sites. It is controlled as far as content, and it is for people who want to learn more about conducting business on the internet. That is not the only reason you will want to join this social site.
Here is the latest update by the major spokesman Phil. I have permission to quote this and will link you the place to get more information and visit the site with no obligation or to join for free. I highly recommend you join now and be one of the early community members.

WomVegas.com Starts Upgrade Testing

by Phil Staudt
June 11, 2010

Congrats to my friend Timothy L. Drobnick Sr. for taking in his first dollar at WomVegas today. Frame it and pin it on your wall. Much success, buddy.

WomVegas.com has not launched yet, but Tim has allowed a few selected participating members to officially upgrade, in order to make certain the software is working correctly for commissions, payments, and processing. Some of the members who upgraded have already been paid commissions on their referrals who also upgraded.

It was over a year ago that Tim Drobnick and I were brain-storming about ways to take his “virtual convention center” concept, which he already had in one of his other websites, and build a website around it. It was over nine months ago that he was talking to me about building a social network similar to WomVegas. There were a dozen names for the website before WomVegas, but the core plan for the website was the same. (Obviously, the Vegas theme sounded good to me.)

I encouraged Tim to keep everything under wraps until it was all ready to go, but Tim wanted to have 100 or so people using the website while he started building it on April 24, because it would make it easier for him to find the glitches and bugs. People who knew Tim started asking him if they could be on it. He kept on adding them one by one, until he either had to tell everyone “no”, or just let everyone sign up for free.

Since April 24, Tim has been very blessed with many wonderful people who have been very helpful (some of them in more politically correct ways than others). On April 24, Tim was confident that it would not take him more than two weeks to get the website into good enough shape to start taking in money, and allowing affiliates to start making money. But the more people signed up, the harder it was for him to get the work done. And, with all the good suggestions and harsh criticisms and helpful suggestions and feedback, Tim has had to change little details many times over, and making it more time-consuming for him to work on bugs and glitches.

With over 4000 members signed up now, the pressure for Tim to “get it right” is even greater than it would have been if there were only a few hundred members. Tim has to be very careful not to let go of the wagon while pushing it up the hill. As I have been telling folks for the past six weeks, most website founders would have started taking money in weeks ago, and then worried about making it good for the affiliates after they got their money in the bank. Tim has lost many thousands of dollars by concentrating on getting rid of bugs and making things work right before collecting any money. But Tim is very conscientious of trying to build something that marketing people and affiliates and customers can use to get more than their money’s worth.

People may criticize Tim for all the delays on
WomVegas, and for not getting it finished as soon as he originally planned, but since this is not designed to be a flash-in-the-pan get-rich-scheme, Tim felt it was better to have critics and scoffers, than risk not doing it right.

I have known Tim Drobnick for over two decades, and he has always wanted to come up with ways to make it possible for somebody who is a little person from a small town with no connections and no financial backing (which is how Tim and I started) to have a way to become extremely successful financially, and be able to be rewarded for hard work, honesty, and good ethics. Many times, as his friend, I am constantly reminding Tim that he can’t give away too much of his own potential profits in order to try and help out others. (I usually lose that argument.)

To all of you who are members in
WomVegas, free or upgraded, you are in the right place at the right time, but more importantly, you are associated with the right person, Timothy L. Drobnick Sr.

There are three types of people:

1. Those who make things happen.
2. Those who watch things happen.
3. Those who never knew anything happened.

Viva Wom Vegas!

By Phil Staudt
June 11, 2010



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It seemed like the application was for the blog owners with high usage. They mention the WordPress MU application. I finally found that, and I do not fit those qualifications at all. However I thought of doing that for the school I work at, and I think it would be an awesome addition to any school. Imagine if all teachers and students had access to a school wide set up of blogs. I think there is a huge potential there. Universities are already doing this. It would be an awesome addition to any alumni or employee association.

Are you in an area where you can use WordPress MU? If you are then I think BuddyPress is going to fit right in and now I can see the bigger picture. To find out more about WordPress MU simply visit this site.

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I hope this will short cut your search to find out if you are qualified to have your own BuddyPress installation.

If you do not have your own needs for that right now, I bet sooner or later you will be a member of BuddyPress through another blogging system.
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Maybe I am dragging my feet in jumping on the BuddyPress addition to my blogs because at this time I am not sure that my blog needs BuddyPress. However there are a lot of blogs out there with readers in the thousands. Perhaps if you are not ready to use it on your blog, there are blogs that you will want to participate more socially with by using the BuddyPress features.
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I think it would be great to be a tester for it. However reality hits me in the face. If I do not have the blog readership at this point in time, how would I ever get people to start interacting socially on my blog.

I believe that you do not have to activate all the features. What features are there? It seems that there are several. I have found this information on http://buddypress.org/about. If you are ready for more interaction on your blog, you should visit there and join the community.

It has been months now that BuddyPress has been in testing and there are a lot of comments. You can spend a lot of time learning, or if you are tempted to download BuddyPress, like I am, you can learn by doing.

Back to the features discussion. Imagine all this on your blog:

  • Private Messaging
  • Friend’s List
  • Groups
  • Forums
  • The Wire
  • Activity Steams
  • Blog Tracking
  • These are a few of the features and more are going to be added. I can see how this is going to be an incredible addition to member site blogs, and blogs for specific niches and groups.

    As I learn more about BuddyPress I will add to this blog. It reminds me of Google Friend Connect in certain ways, only it takes Google Friend Connect to a higher degree of activitiy. It is going to be more than just following friends across multiple blogs. Congratulations to the developers of BuddyPress.

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    I have been a member of Twitter for quite some time now, but I am not a Twitter expert. I do not even have that many followers, and I have never used my Twitter account to send someone an email asking them to go to a website to buy something.
    My Twitter report card even comes in at a 65%. There are sites where you can go and get your Twitter account rated. If your ego is easily bruised then maybe you do not want to do that.

    Twitter is going to be given more press now that the rumor is out that Twitter is being bought by Google. Well, it is still a rumor, and I remember all the talk of Google buying Digg not all that long ago. Perhaps Google is only on another fact finding mission.

    However, I have installed some Twitter widgets, and follow me buttons to my blog now so I can get to know how to use Twitter better. I even have 3 ebooks on Twitter where I am learning more. I have resale rights to those so eventually will list them here for sale. (YAY, you can buy a book from me!)

    To Follow or Not To Follow that is the question. Whether it is better to gather thousands of followers from all walks of life, or is it better to go for quality or like-minded rather than random followings, that is the question? (See the question mark to prove it is a question.) That is the debate I am reading in the blogs around the internet written by people I have the highest regard for. Some even follow me on Twitter, too.

    I have been reading a topic called Why I Suck At Twitter, and I have left on comment, but as I continue to read the following comments it only brings me more questions.
    I read that topic yesterday after finding it on Twitter, and since commenting on it I have more people following me. That is really cool and exciting.

    I took a poll asking if people followed me did I automatically follow them back. I thought did I manually do that, but without thinking. I thought it meant, did I make an automatic decision? I checked yes automatically. Then after reading more during the day I discovered that you can set something up to automatically (without you doing anything) choose to follow people who choose to follow you. I think that is cheesy! I at least like to look at their photo, and if I have time their profile.

    As time permits I will add to my Twitter Reports, and hopefully I can help some new people along the way to have a happy Twitter experience. It is taking me far to look to figure out how to use it, but I know way more this week than I knew last week.

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    I have been following Chris Lang around the internet for several months as he upturns every stone with Social Networking, and is bound to be a household name right there with Digg, Facebook, and Google. Well maybe you have not heard of him now, but you will hear of Chris Lang. However this post is not about him, it is about Google Friend Connect.

    I am hoping this is only the beginning of Google tying in all the loose ends of the Blogs, the pages, the reader, and everyone’s dream of a front page site for the juiciest of keywords. After all we just want to be read!

    Are we the monsters and Google is the keeper of the monsters? Feed Me More Google! Or are we are the mercy of the giant Google? Well all this is happening at the right time. I bet several people can actually afford to buy the stock right now, too.

    I look forward to seeing my empty Google Friend Connect widget get filled up as days pass into night and another day dawns and all that poetic stuff.

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    Social Marketing and Social Networking are the buzz words right now.  I have joined several social sites lately to test Chris Lang’s book out.  Well what does this have to do with GibLink and Gibline?  Let me tell you.

    I pay $50 a month to be a member and I am staying involved because they keep making changes to improve the revinue sharing.  That is always good.  When you are building a business you need contacts. You need the right contacts.  You want to reach people who think like you do.  You have to go where business people go.

    One friend of mine just increased his downline by 14 people in one month using Social Sites.  He got a 1000 check for his efforts and will get more in the months to come.  Chris just had a 1000 day.  Bob Beckett is going to have a 10K week, or that is what he is aiming for.  These are some of my friends and they use Social Marketing for their success.  

    Social Marketing is the least expensive way to promote your business.   It is the best way to make important contacts on the internet right now.  The free ones work, too, but Giblink and Gibline will give you contact with people who have money, usually are serious about their business or finding the right business.  These are the types of people you want to interact with.

    Here is the link to check it out.  Oh you will make some of your fees back over time.  I can easily spend more money than the membership on advertising and it is a tax write off with your business.  So believe it there are people waiting to meet you.  See if this is right for you.

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