Personal learning networks (PLNs) can be enhanced through Google+ by connecting with people in relevant circles, curating content to share only with appropriate audiences, and using features like Hangouts, profiles and pages to collaborate and learn. As more apps integrate with the Google+ API, it will further transform the web by facilitating new forms of broadcasting, collaboration and connection within PLNs.

1. How Can It Help Enhance Your
Personal Learning Network?

2. http://www.slideshare.net/chadmairn
@cmairn

3. Personal
Learning
Networks

4. R.I.P.

5. Image source:
www.patrickbeja.com

6. Google + has …
Circles
Streams
Profiles
Photos
Hangouts
Messenger
Sparks
Mobile
+1 button

7. Robert Scoble’s Google + Tips Summarized:
• Create a manageable set of circles (e.g., Friends, Family, Tech Geeks, Co-
workers)
• Learn how to distribute content to circles. (Talking Tech circle)
• Create a “home circle" and add people you want to see everyday. Or create
a “Noise” circle to help eliminate people who post a lot.
• If a post is getting a lot of comments (resembling a discussion forum) then
mute it.
• Turn off e-mail notifications and use SMS or filter them in Gmail.
• A good list of Google Chrome extensions: http://pear.ly/fDvaa
• When re-sharing, think about who you are sharing with. Try to eliminate
duplication.
• Update/clean your Google Profile (profiles.google.com)
Source: http://goo.gl/4Lbvt

8. Manage Your G+ Profile

9. Manage Your Other Profiles

10. View Your Profile

11. View Your Profile as
“Anyone on the web …”

12. Set Your Security Settings

13. Source: http://goo.gl/NwvmZ

15. Live
Demonstration

17. Hangouts work on
some phones now!

22. Quick FYI:
Google Dashboard helps you answer
the question: 'What information does
Google have about me?'

25. E-mail vs. SMS
Notifications

26. Creating a Vanity URL
1. Visit http://gplus.to/
2.
3. Done! http://gplus.to/chadmairn

27. What will happen to the Web when the
Google+ API is used to its full potential?

28. A lot!

30. What will happen to the Web when the Google+ API is
used to its full potential?
Hangouts On Air will allow people to broadcast and record their
video to a wider audience.
In Hangouts, we can now collaborate with Screenshare, Sketchpad,
YouTube, and Google Docs. This is huge for group discovery and
learning! And once the API is opened further you’ll see even more
app integration!
This will all help us to become an integral part of people’s Personal
Learning Networks!
Follow people like +Mohamed Mansour (created Stream+ and other
apps) and +Vic Gundotra (Senior Vice President of Engineering at
Google) and others. Add comments to their posts. Who knows, you
may inspire a programmer to add one of your ideas to Google+.

31. Collaboration

32. Some Google+ Chrome Extensions
• Move2Picasa exports all your Facebook photos to Picasa.
• RSS Share for Google Plus & Google Reader integrates
Google+ and Google Reader by adding a ‘Share on Google+'
button within Google Reader and includes Google Reader
within Google+.
• My Hangouts for Google Plus provides a quick view of all
the active hangouts in your stream.
• Extended Share for Google Plus will extend Google+ to
share to Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and many more.

33. Be careful when installing
extensions that aren’t in the
Chrome’s Web app store!

34. Let’s
Hangout!
gplus.to/chadmairn