Did you watch CNN this morning? It reported Paul Allen’s stats that Google+ growth is exceeding expectations. According to him, Google is now over 62 million users and adding about 625,000 new users every day. His prediction? Google+ will have over 400 million users by the end of 2012. 400 million users in a year [...]

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Nonprofits, businesses, and geeks alike were thrilled when Google+ finally rolled out business pages back in November 2011. But one of the huge limitations of pages were the limit of only one admin per page. Any time a business or nonprofit wanted to post something, it had to go through the person who first created [...]

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It’s no secret that I love Google+. And it’s really no secret that Google loves it too. If you needed further evidence that Google+ is changing the way Google works, check out your Gmail account. (You’re not still using Hotmail or Yahoo, are you?) Last night, I noticed that I can now filter my emails [...]

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Here’s a video of my “Google+ for Nonprofits” session from BlogWorld Expo in Los Angeles last month. There were 2 sessions about Google+ there: Guy Kawasaki and Chris Brogan did one; I did the other. This was presented days before Google opened up pages for brands. The information presented here is still relevant but now [...]

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On Tuesday, 501 Mission Place hosted our monthly “Office Hours” on Google Hangouts. We had a blast! I hosted it using the “Hangout with extras” so I was able to give the hangout a title (not creatively called “501 Mission Place November Office Hours”). And we were able to play with Sketchpad and Notes right [...]

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If you’ve been waiting to join Google+ until your nonprofit or organization could have a presence on Google+? The wait is over. About 30 minutes ago, Google opened up Google+ Pages! I’ve scoured their introductory material and have found references to pages being for “businesses, organizations, and groups.” There appear to be no explicit restrictions [...]

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My wife opened Google tonight and had a big blue arrow. When I opened Google the arrow was there too. Are you seeing it too? When you mouse over it, it says, “You’re invited to join Google+.” Jump in, the water’s fine I’d encourage you to check it out. There are some interesting features that [...]

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I joined Google+ exactly one month ago. I started out with my curiosity piqued and then I got a vision for how nonprofits could benefit from Google+. I was even interviewed about Google+ last week. Here are three reasons I’m impressed with Google+. In just 1 month, Google+ is one of my top 10 referring [...]

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