Thursday 11 August 2011

Google+ Tips & Tricks: 10 More Ways To Make the Most of Your Account

Here at Mashable, we’ve been hard at work digging into Google’s new social network. All that searching has turned up even more useful shortcuts and tips.

Below we bring you 10 more ways to help you get the most out of your Google+ account.

SEE ALSO: Google+ Tips & Tricks: 10 Hints for New Users

Take a look through the gallery and share in the comments any suggestions you have for improving the G+ experience.

Have you started using Google plus yet?

Call Your Friends Right From Facebook (1)

Over the last year, the messages team has been working to make it easier to have one on one conversations with your friends. In November, we launched the new messages, which brings together your chats, texts, emails and messages all in one place.

 

Today I'm excited to introduce video calling and other improvements to chat.

 

See The Friends You Message  Most

The new chat design includes a sidebar that lists the people you message most. Now it's easier to find your friends and start a conversation. The sidebar adjusts with the size of your browser window, and it automatically appears when the window is wide enough.

 

 

Create a Group Chat Instantly

We're also launching multi-person chat, which is one of our most requested features. Now when your friends can't figure out what movie to see, you can just add them to a chat and decide together. To include more friends in your conversation, simply select Add Friends to Chat.

 

 

And just like your other chats, the history of your conversation is available in messages.

 

Bring Your Conversations to Life

Video chat has been around for years now, but it's still not an everyday activity for most people. Sometimes it's too difficult to set up, or the friends you want to talk to are on different services.

 

So a few months ago, we started working with Skype to bring video calling to Facebook. We built it right into chat, so all your conversations start from the same place. To call your friend, just click the video call button at the top of your chat window.

 

Talk to friends around the world right from Facebook.

 

For those of us who have been working on this, it's particularly exciting to bring video calling to over 750 million people. We're making this available in over 70 different languages, so friends can stay in touch all over the world.

 

Video calling will be available to everyone over the next few weeks, but if you don't want to wait, you can get it now.

 

 

Philip Su, an engineer on the video calling team, will be making his first video call to his parents back in Maryland


I really like this feature!!

Monday 25 July 2011

HOW TO Connect Your LinkedIn Profile With Twitter For Better Networking - AllTwitter

Both Twitter and LinkedIn are great for networking with professionals, co-workers and business associates. But rather than flipping between the two networks, they’ve made it easy to connect to one another in order to leverage both at the same time. Here’s how.

LinkedIn has a dedicated Twitter application which allows for quick and easy integration of your Twitter account into your LinkedIn profile.

Housed in the LinkedIn learning center, the Twitter app enables users to post their LinkedIn status to their Twitter followers, their tweets to their LinkedIn network, or both.

The app allows very fine-grain control over which tweets/LinkedIn statuses you share with your other network.

You can choose to share all of your tweets as LinkedIn status updates, or only those which contain the hashtags #in or #li – a great way to automatically select tweets to share without having to copy and paste each tweet manually. The app also allows users to tweet LinkedIn status updates on their Twitter account.

And the app even has those overly-indulgent content sharers in mind: you can hide any individual’s LinkedIn status updates from your home stream just by hovering over one of their updates and clicking “hide”. This is great if someone is pushing all of their 20+ daily tweets to LinkedIn.

Another useful feature of this LinkedIn Twitter app is the insight into which of your LinkedIn connections you are currently following on Twitter, and which ones you are not following. It’s a great idea to dig into this number on the “Connections” tab on LinkedIn, and follow anyone who you aren’t already following on Twitter. This can serve to strengthen your professional network on both LinkedIn and Twitter.

In addition to (or as an alternative to) following your LinkedIn connections on Twitter, you could create a Twitter list that you update with each new LinkedIn connection. This will show you all of the Twitter updates from your LinkedIn network without cluttering up your home timeline.

Know of any other ways you can connect your LinkedIn profile with Twitter? Let us know in the comments below!

Monday 11 July 2011

How Do Architects Use Twitter? [INFOGRAPHIC] - AllTwitter

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65% of Architects surveyed had been using Twitter for over a year
The majority of Architects use Twitter to keep up with the latest industry news (86%) and network with industry peers (79%)
When asked ‘Who do you follow?’ most selected Other Architects (82%), Practices (77%) and Publications (75%)
95% of Architects do find Twitter useful, primarily for the reason that it’s quick and easy to share information and keep up with the latest news