I’ve spent many hours reading and implementing Google Authorship on my websites.
Google+ is quickly becoming one of my favorite social networks and part of it is because of the ability to share photos with specific groups of people. Recently, I took photos at my daughters kindergarten graduation, but I didn’t want to post the photos publicly and I didn’t want to put them on my Dropbox. I decided to post them on Gooogle+ and share with all of the parents.
Here’s how I did it:
We all know it: if you want to be productive, you have to switch off all social media and any and all notifications. I wrote about it before: we are not as good at multitasking as we think. This infographic shows some really interesting statistics on that topic:
- we are interrupted in our tasks on average four times per hour
- it takes us 23 minutes to get back to our original task
- parallel tasks take us 30% longer than sequential tasks
And my personal favorite: it takes the heart five days (!) to recover it’s natural rhythm after being cut off from email. Now that’s one I’d like to see proof for, but hey, it doesn’t sound that far off, now does it? Continue Reading…
What if the Church was more like Google?
Eric Dye, Jeremy Smith and Phil Schneider kick-off the first ever ChurchMag podcast and talk about this and more!
There are a number of reasons why your church, ministry or non-profit should be on Google+, but the latest reason is probably the most important.
Google has been slowly tying all of its services together into Google+, as part of creating a more personal search experience.
This can be seen in the “introduction of Knowledge Graph last year, when Google started showing information on the right-hand side of search results to help you figure out if you’re searching for the right thing, be it a person, place or thing.”
As seen here:
Whoa. The Google+ cover photo just got bigger.
Here is a new sizing cheat sheet for your designing pleasure:
It’s the new look of Facebook, and for the first time, I like the changes.
Could this be the first Facebook re-design that doesn’t cause an uproar?
Got into a pickle the other day.
We ended up with a dead battery, and were stranded. It wasn’t good at all. Being a bit out in the boonies made summoning help difficult at best and overly expensive at worst.
Then, all of sudden, an idea hit me, from nowhere.
The McKinsey Quarterly recently published an interesting article on the six social media skills every leader needs, including a good analysis of social media practices in General Electric.
The ‘competitive advantage’ these skills bring don’t matter that much to church leaders obviously, or at least they shouldn’t matter. But the skills are still important in a day and age where social media can be used and leveraged to a church advantage, even to the advantage of spreading the gospel. Continue Reading…
I’ll come right out and say it: I’m not a big Google+ fan.
Yet.
Of course I see the immense potential of this network. Google+ is the second largest social network after Facebook and the combined impact of a strong presence on all Google products is huge.
Measures like the +1, the Author Rank and other Google innovations will surely improve the quality of the web in general, as spammy sites and content thieves will ultimately be pushed to the margins. Continue Reading…
