It's Friday! Thanks to Mick Sharpe and his FridayFavourites G+ roundup for keeping up.

It's Friday! Thanks to Mick Sharpe and his FridayFavourites G+ roundup for keeping up.
Honoured by inclusion of Midweek Zap-Local Love with Tim Sweeney and Sanjiv Manifest along with some stellar G+ findings.
Weekend catchup!

#Googleplustips  

Originally shared by Mick Sharpe

Never finished

I think we may have had a week without any feature retirements on Google+ (and yes I’m touching wood as I write). There was, however, a new aspect to Local Search shared by Ana Hoffman (you know Ana always finds the good stuff). Location Aware Search is live unannounced feature in Google Search App (https://goo.gl/r1oZiR) looks at the improvements demonstrated at the SMX Conference in Paris. Smarter and smarter.

I love to see success stories on Google+ and one such success story is that of the #EagleCo project. Tim Sweeney and Sanjiv Manifest joined Zara Altair for Midweek Zap - Local Love (https://goo.gl/MYQOC9) to review the project from its birth to its evolution into Go Local Online (GLO). If you’re involved in Local in any way you’ll get something from this show and great to see the team putting the experience gained to good use helping other communities boost their local online presence.

More collaboration on the Plus with Disruption: How Successful People Use Social Media for Business (https://goo.gl/yLGl6W). Randy Milanovic joined forces with Gina Fiedel, Vincent Messina, David Kutcher, Jodi Kaplan, Christine DeGraff and many more to produce a practical guide to using Social Media. Yes real life examples from real people. Who knew? I believe you can still pick this up from Amazon for free today and only $3 if you miss the free window. I’m half way through and it’s well worth a read and keeping handy for future reference.

As it was promised, so was it delivered

A small business must-see as RightStart Websites kick off their new format Small Business WebTech Show with The Basics of Using Your Website As A Business Asset (https://goo.gl/9PgVYg). Gina Fiedel joins Marilyn Moore and John Moore as co-host for the series with expert advice from the Black Knight, Ammon Johns, digital marketer Mary Iannotti and business development expert Mike Bayes. You’ll learn about the level of investment needed for your website to continue to grow and become more valuable. You may have been enticed by the pay monthly, easy build website services. The panel look at some of the pitfalls of this approach to your business website and it’s worth watching for this advice alone. Take the time, make the effort and get the statue to your own company right, (Good phrase, Ammon). This is definitely a watch it all show but just in case you need to dip in and out quickly Marilyn has put together the #timestamp reference post here (https://goo.gl/vyjACY)

More useful advice for small business in this week’s Geekspeak Guides 301 redirects and 404 Errors and Forgotten Steps (https://goo.gl/CZGJCi). Susan Finch and Yvonne Heimann share some great tips if you want to get your hands dirty, or at least be aware of what your web developers are doing for you. Particularly valuable tip to keep old sites active (with their analytics intact) when switching domains which will allow you to catch any old links that you may have forgotten about. A lot of useful stuff packed into a little under 25 minutes.

As ever Ronnie Bincer keeps us up to date with Hangouts. Desktop Hangout Messaging gets "Stickers" (https://goo.gl/wBGTs0) introduces us to the new sticker feature in Desktop Google Hangouts (which has been available for some time on mobile). Another example of unifying the Google experience across all devices.

I’m not sure how they manage it but Ray Hiltz and the rest of the #RayBunch team, B.L. Ochman, Jessica Dewell, Randy Bowden and Scott Scowcroft seem to find an interesting topic every single week. This week it’s Who is the Boss of You? Self-Employment: How Hard Can It Be? (https://goo.gl/W2GK8b). Working for yourself is great, isn’t it? Well like everything, sometimes it is and sometimes it isn’t. I think Scott highlights an important point that there is much more opportunity for the budding entrepreneur in the current, well-connected world. Some fabulous takeouts. I have to admit to using something similar to B.L.’s takeout recently to try to manage tasks more effectively. And it works!

Relationships and their dynamics are the subject of This week's PYB show! (https://goo.gl/x7kH8o) as Travis Taylor, martin shervington and David Amerland discuss getting the Google+ bug, understanding intent and intention and investing the time. Welcome to the global village square! Always an interesting discussion and well worth taking in with your favourite beverage while taking a break from your other tasks.

Thinkers corner

Every now and again it serves us well to stand back a little from the rapid development of all things Internet and just see where we might need to make some adjustments. Eli Fennell flags up the darker side of this rapid evolution in Internet Hospital Pumps: The Perfect Tool for Assassination and Medical Mayhem? (https://goo.gl/E4vEZj), a share of an article by Maximilian Teodorescu highlighting research that reveals that Internet connected drug infusion pumps are vulnerable to hacking. As Eli points out there are some areas that are just too risky to entrust to an emerging technology. As much as I’m in favour of technological advancements I do worry about the Internet of Things. I remain quite comfortable with a kettle that I have to switch on myself and a fridge that doesn’t tell me I’m out of beer.

Thinking about a different aspect of our future Gideon Rosenblatt gives us Meat: The Habit We Don't Want to Give Up (or Talk About) (https://goo.gl/Y2ikZ8). Looking at the latest developments that hope to reduce our demand for meat production and therefore reduce the associated environmental impacts. I applaud any effort to mitigate the problems we make for ourselves and it will be interesting to see how this develops.

And finally…

This enjoyable share from matthew rappaport came to via Alan Stainer and Eli Fennell. Ackbar’s Eleven (https://goo.gl/TkfFN0) is a humorous parody of Star Wars and Ocean’s Eleven created by SYNAPTIC STUDIOS. I think it’s a trap!


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