Google Plus lets you build a personal website, fast, free, and available anywhere!

1. Other Pages
My Buzz was strong before Google+.
Viewers see a strong list of my
publications. I see publications from
Sales Lab Incorporated
my five favorite writers.
SalesLabDC.com/resources
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
Google +
a day. Or they used to. I don’t see
them anymore.
Your Personal Website
A lot of my favorite bloggers are Fast!
posting other things on their Google+
Free!
pages. I got back to following Eric
Raymond, the guy who invented open Anywhere!
source, though Google+.
Questions?
What was the best thing you learned?
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Thank you! Dick Davies
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2. A New Tool Google+ Parts Links
Google+ offers users an opportunity to Let’s look at a Google+ site.
To the right, the Links Section is one of
create a personal website that is fast, the strongest features. This allows you
I use a custom URL shortener, to showcase your best work on the web.
free, and can be found by anyone on
bit.ly/DicksProfile so viewers can get
the internet. As you can see, I have organized my
there without using search. Googling
Fast – Your third attempt and after links to interest potential clients.
“Dick Davies” will also get you there.
takes less than ten minutes to make Google Guys put up their technical
The Edit Profile button opens you to
major revisions or start a new site. presentations, bit.ly/BruceWon has his
First and second attempts are about editing your profile. Before Google+,
blog posts.
learning the tool. I had built a Google Profile, the
forerunner. When I showed it to Jack, If you want to post a page, put it in
Free - Google+ works off your Gmail he said it was the most efficient use of Google docs (part of your Gmail) and
account, Google’s free email service web real estate, better than our four connect that link to the name you
with superior spam protection. websites, LinkedIn, Facebook, three choose for it in the Links Section.
Already have another email address? other social networks, and three blogs. Capability Paragraph (center)–I pasted
Let Google do the organizing. mine from my LinkedIn page.
I have six email addresses plugged into
my Gmail browser. Postini spam If it wasn’t about you, you would Employment – Please be interesting!
protection brought my spam-zombie be impressed. Note that they want your current
AOL account back to life. Owner Picture – People want to see a interest. No details about past
picture to make sure they know you. employers, which is so much better
Available – LinkedIn, Facebook and
Last week I put in a new seersucker than a resume!
other social networks require the
viewer be a member of that network. picture, which took less than a minute. Map – Was you dere?
Google+ is visible to anyone with an My name and tagline are fully Telephone numbers, email, birthday,
internet browser. Better still, if they configurable. gender I hide. You can do what you
don’t have your internet address, Photos – Mine are from Yahoo’s want.
Google Search does! Flickr, since I was using that before
Google’s Picasa, and these are images
from my blog posts.