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G+ Android Update 7.1.0

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G+ Android Update 7.1.0 Following our last Android update two weeks ago, we're starting to roll out several bug fixes and a frequently requested enhancement on the Google+ Android app: * 37 bugs fixed * 17 accessibility issues addressed * "Keep contacts up to date" setting fixed * Tap on the bottom bar to scroll to the top of your Home stream As always more updates are on the way so please keep the ideas & issues coming by using our Send Feedback menu item. Thanks~

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#LightsCameraHOA with our founder Alois Bělaška Boy that was fun :)

#LightsCameraHOA with our founder Alois Bělaška Boy that was fun :) https://youtu.be/-8lhIskhiYo

Which way will you participate?

Which way will you participate? Google+ Event Page: https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/117236939753993670990/events/ci1bsvueieocivgf9to72cs15ag YouTube Live-Streaming or for Replay: https://youtu.be/-8lhIskhiYo #LightsCameraHOA! Meet the Founder of Friends+Me, Alois Belaska! Join us on Monday, January 25th, as our Featured Guest on our #LightsCameraHOA live-streaming broadcast will be Alois Belaska.  He is the founder of Friends+Me, the automated tool to use for your social media platforms – especially essential for your Google+ Profile and Google+ Page!   This will be your opportunity to ask Alois any questions you have about the platform.  Alois lives in Zlin, Czech Republic, and he’ll be staying up late in his evening to introduce us to how Friends+Me can be a major help to those of us on Google+ who want to consider posting to our friends around the world during “their” time zones, rather than just posting for those within our own.  As our worldwide friendships continue to grow without

Which way will you participate?

Which way will you participate? Google+ Event Page: https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/117236939753993670990/events/ci1bsvueieocivgf9to72cs15ag YouTube Live-Streaming or for Replay: https://youtu.be/-8lhIskhiYo #LightsCameraHOA! Meet the Founder of Friends+Me, Alois Belaska! Join us on Monday, January 25th, as our Featured Guest on our #LightsCameraHOA live-streaming broadcast will be Alois Belaska.  He is the founder of Friends+Me, the automated tool to use for your social media platforms – especially essential for your Google+ Profile and Google+ Page!   This will be your opportunity to ask Alois any questions you have about the platform.  Alois lives in Zlin, Czech Republic, and he’ll be staying up late in his evening to introduce us to how Friends+Me can be a major help to those of us on Google+ who want to consider posting to our friends around the world during “their” time zones, rather than just posting for those within our own.  As our worldwide friendships continue to grow without

Which way will you participate?

Which way will you participate? Google+ Event Page: https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/117236939753993670990/events/ci1bsvueieocivgf9to72cs15ag YouTube Live-Streaming or for Replay: https://youtu.be/-8lhIskhiYo #LightsCameraHOA! Meet the Founder of Friends+Me, Alois Belaska! Join us on Monday, January 25th, as our Featured Guest on our #LightsCameraHOA live-streaming broadcast will be Alois Belaska.  He is the founder of Friends+Me, the automated tool to use for your social media platforms – especially essential for your Google+ Profile and Google+ Page!   This will be your opportunity to ask Alois any questions you have about the platform.  Alois lives in Zlin, Czech Republic, and he’ll be staying up late in his evening to introduce us to how Friends+Me can be a major help to those of us on Google+ who want to consider posting to our friends around the world during “their” time zones, rather than just posting for those within our own.  As our worldwide friendships continue to grow without

Online Automation Tools is one of the BEST CONVENIENCES we can enjoy in our busy lives! Especially if you run a small business, you know the value of saving time! I count on time-savers like this!

Online Automation Tools is one of the BEST CONVENIENCES we can enjoy in our busy lives!  Especially if you run a small business, you know the value of saving time!  I count on time-savers like this!  We'll be having a unique Q&A Session with the founder of Friends+Me, Alois BÄ›laÅ¡ka on Monday, Jan. 25 on #LightsCameraHOA!  Hope you can be there with us.  If you cannot, at least bookmark this so you can catch the replay.  You'll see full details below.    https://plus.google.com/+MeloneyHall/posts/EtTnAZzyqpb

The Friends+Me web application is currently down. We're working on it. Sorry for the trouble.

The Friends+Me web application is currently down. We're working on it. Sorry for the trouble. FIXED : problem solved. The web application is up and well.

Which way will you participate?

Which way will you participate? Google+ Event Page: https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/117236939753993670990/events/ci1bsvueieocivgf9to72cs15ag YouTube Live-Streaming or for Replay: https://youtu.be/-8lhIskhiYo #LightsCameraHOA! Meet the Founder of Friends+Me, Alois Belaska! Join us on Monday, January 25th, as our Featured Guest on our #LightsCameraHOA live-streaming broadcast will be Alois Belaska.  He is the founder of Friends+Me, the automated tool to use for your social media platforms – especially essential for your Google+ Profile and Google+ Page!   This will be your opportunity to ask Alois any questions you have about the platform.  Alois lives in Zlin, Czech Republic, and he’ll be staying up late in his evening to introduce us to how Friends+Me can be a major help to those of us on Google+ who want to consider posting to our friends around the world during “their” time zones, rather than just posting for those within our own.  As our worldwide friendships continue to grow without

Google+ Accessibility

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Google+ Accessibility You may have noticed that I regularly call out the number of "accessibility issues addressed" in our releases. Accessibility plays a big role in our ongoing efforts and in the new Google+, we've optimized user interfaces on Android, iOS, and the Web for easier navigation with screen readers and keyboard controls. In the past year alone, we've found & fixed over 450 accessibility bugs. Some recent updates: * Improved keyboard support on the web: navigate, comment, +1, create new posts, and more * Improved interactions with posts using both Talkback on Android and VoiceOver on iOS that save people significant time and effort * Search accessibility improvements on all platforms, with autocomplete results announced when they're available You can read more about accessibility support on the Google+ Help Center page ( https://support.google.com/plus/answer/6320404 ), and be sure to check out the user-created GPlus Accessibility Community ( ht

Plus Ones Restored

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Plus Ones Restored Today some of you may notice a jump in +1s on your older posts. We had an issue earlier that resulted in some +1s not being displayed correctly. As of today, that's fully resolved and all your posts should show the right number of +1s. Thanks to everyone who brought this to our attention and apologies for any problems~

G+ Web Preview Update Jan 14

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G+ Web Preview Update Jan 14 This week we've got a few updates and a lot of bug fixes rolling out for our G+ preview on the Web including: * 37 bug fixes * Pin posts on your Profile * Easily move any of your posts into a Collection * Simpler invite to Community feature As always, please send us your ideas/issues using our Send Feedback menu item as that's the best way to ensure we'll see them. Thanks~

G+ Android Update 7.0.0

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G+ Android Update 7.0.0 We're starting to roll out an updated Google+ Android app over the next couple days. This version includes two of our most requested Android fixes and a number of additional updates. Specifically: * 69 bugs fixed * 14 accessibility issues addressed * Automatically hide the bottom tab bar when scrolling (note: not on Notifications screen yet) * The home stream now remembers your position when you return to it (after going to a different screen like Notifications) * Search now displays autocomplete suggestions as you type * If you have no Collections or Communities visible on your profile, we include a prompt for you to add one As always, additional Android updates are on the way, so please keep the ideas & issues coming by using our Send Feedback menu item. Thanks~

How to restore comments flagged as spam by Google+

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How to restore comments flagged as spam by Google+ My biggest complaint about the Google+ redesign is that the automated spam filter often falsely flags perfectly good comments as spam, and doesn't let you restore them. Some have suggested that the fix is to use the old system and not the new. But it occurred to me today that you can use the new redesigned version nearly full-time, but dip into the old design just to restore falsely flagged comments. Just use the the "Notifications" stream: https://plus.google.com/notifications For some reason, Google throws you back into the old version for Notifications. There, you can find the falsely flagged comments and restore them.

Updated: Ruling Social Media with Friends+Me

Updated: Ruling Social Media with Friends+Me Friends+Me is my favorite tool for managing a multi network strategy, in part because it doesn't require me to Post manually to multiple networks. I post once, to Google+, then with at most a minute or two of optimizing, I've got a queue of Posts ready to go out to all my largest networks. While there are many great tools for scheduling Posts to multiple social networks, none in my opinion is as clever, as powerful, or as easy as Friends+Me​​. It helps me spend less of my time sharing to social media, and more time using social media, and has changed how I use social media by not making me radically change how I prefer to use social media. And now, it's even more powerful, with a new feature to automatically pull in a hashtag from the Original Post to share to Twitter. So now, you can place your hashtag anywhere in the Post and have it automatically appended to your Tweet, by enabling this new feature. (This also goes to show

The Friends+Me secret is out!

The Friends+Me  secret is out! See it here: https://goo.gl/N72ecV It is "based" in Google+, but I also find it especially useful to post in FB, to which I loath going. Also, I can schedule the FB posts so they're most likely to be seen by friends in the USA. This said, I sometimes also use it to cross post my Google+ stuff to Twitter and Linkedin for certain fields where I have a presence in some niche area like IP Communications. It can do Pinterest, too, but I don't much there. Another good use is keeping posts current in my Music collection, for example. Rather than posting three things at once, I can space them out. I want to mention also the service is impressive and any bug I have found due to a Google change, for example, has been promptly fixed. I am a paid user, but I have no other connection to tout the service other than I think it's great. h/t to Peggy K who, on this rare occasion, proved she doesn't know everything about Google+. :P https://frie

Google+ Activity Log

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Google+ Activity Log Google+ now features a list of all your actions including posts, comments, +1s, votes, blocks, and much more. You can access your Activity Log on Android, iOS, and the Web from the Settings menu. Filter the list to find recent comments or other actions you've made (I personally find this very useful when I want to re-find conversations I've participated in) or easily remove any action you've taken on Google+ using the X on each list item. Don't worry, you'll be asked to confirm before we actually delete anything. As usual, you can tell us what you think about this new feature using the Send Feedback menu item. Thanks~

CircleCount PRO is out now!

CircleCount PRO is out now! Woohoo! As a lot of you probably know, CircleCount is developed by just a few people on a voluntary basis so far. Since the cost for running the site is steadily increasing and our ad revenue is decreasing we need another revenue stream.  We calculated that we need 100 paying customers in order to keep the service running for a long time to come. With your money we will be able to pay the server costs and be able to keep developing new CircleCount services. So please spread the word. We would be very happy if you could order our PRO Service via this link: http://www.circlecount.com/pro/ As a little extra: The first 100 subscriber get a little surprise gift. ;) Thank you very much for your support and the trust in us! Kind regards Your CircleCount Team http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6dBpBPf3co