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Insights for everyone

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Insights for everyone It’s always great to see a positive response to something you’ve posted. But sometimes you want to see what’s happening overall — the big picture. To help you see how you’re doing, we’re introducing a new profile insights panel in Google+, available whether you post as a person or a page. It’s a private dashboard where you can see the engagement on all your posts, and on reshares of your posts, as well as follows on your profile and Collections. To find your dashboard, visit your profile on the web version of Google+ ( plus.google.com/me ) and open the three dots menu at the top.

Events in New Google+ Web

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Events in New Google+ Web By popular demand, we're rolling out Events on the new Google+ Web experience today. This is the existing Events experience from Google+ Classic, now available in the new Google+ Web app. 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+ iOS Update 6.3.0

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G+ iOS Update 6.3.0 In our first iOS app update in 2017, we launched a faster and easier way to share YouTube videos on Google+. Browse popular videos, videos you've liked, search Youtube, and preview videos inline before you post. Michael Wattendorf has the details in his post: https://plus.google.com/116350759931517885053/posts/Afdj3ntMZvB

Screen Layout Improvements

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Screen Layout Improvements From the start, our new Google+ Web experience was built as a Responsive Web Design (RWD), meaning it adapts to the amount of screen space available within a Web browser by re-sizing images, changing layouts, and more. Recently we had the pleasure of working with Ethan Marcotte ( https://ethanmarcotte.com ), the originator of RWD, on a number of substantial improvements to how we adapt to different screen sizes on the Google+ Web experience. Starting today, we: * Display more posts on smaller screens * Switch to a 3 column display sooner * Use new header designs on Communities, Collections and Profiles * Resize posts more effectively * And more... To experience these all changes, simply try out the Google+ Web experience on different phones, tablets, laptops, desktops, or just different Web browser window sizes. And 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~ 

Over a Year of New Web Features

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Over a Year of New Web Features With today's announcement ( https://blog.google/products/google-plus/making-googleplus-work-better-for-you/ ) of our upcoming transition to the new Google+ Web experience, I thought it would be useful to share all the feature additions, fixes, and updates we’ve made thanks to your feedback over the past fourteen months: Home Stream * Ability to reply to comments in the stream * +1 comments with one click * Turn animated comments (as seen on all streams) on/off * Extra fast Web page loading with AMP * New presentation for original comments on re-shared posts * Real-time indicator of when there's new posts * Auto-play of animated GIFs (with setting to turn on/off) * 3 column stream view for very wide screens * Quick action to view full post pages * Hover over user images for more info about people * "What You Missed" posts in your Home stream * Full timestamp on post pages * View poll results from the post menu * No limits on circle strea

Hiding Low-Quality Comments

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Hiding Low-Quality Comments Today we announced a new feature for Google+ Android, iOS, and Web: hiding low-quality comments on posts so its easier to have good conversations on G+. By default, this helps you focus on comments that matter most. But if you’d like to see all the comments on a post, you can simply tap on “View more comments.” 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~

HELP: Newly created G+ community posts are not visible in the community feed after refresh. The post can be access with direct link but is not visible in the feed.

HELP : Newly created G+ community posts are not visible in the community feed after refresh. The post can be access with direct link but is not visible in the feed. Am I the only one with this problem?

Fast and easy video posting

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Fast and easy video posting I'm excited to announce a new feature to make it easier than ever to add high quality video content to your posts with a couple taps. The new youtube icon you’ll find in your posting options leads to a page where you can simply tap on videos to preview them and add them to your post. For easy navigation, we’ve included your recently liked (on youtube) and the most popular videos pre-loaded and you can always search for that specific video you wanted to share. Happy sharing!

Community Managers Guide

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Community Managers Guide Our Google+ content team has assembled a set of best practices for setting up, customizing, and growing healthy Google+ communities. Get it here: http://goo.gl/9nY9LA

Creating High Quality Collections

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Creating High Quality Collections Our Google+ content team has assembled a quick and easy to follow guide filled with helpful tips on creating, improving and maintaining successful Collections. Get it here: http://goo.gl/u0h3yr