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Did Google change their user account menu?

by Nate Devore Nate's Google +
Did Google change their user account menu?

Did anyone notice that Google changed the location and feel of the Google account menu when logged in? You can now post directly to Google + from any tab inside of your Google Account. If you are in Gmail, Google Docs or even on Search you can post directly to your ...

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The Best Google Plus Bookmarklet

by Nate Devore Nate's Google +
The Best Google Plus Bookmarklet

2012 is the year of the bookmarklet. Scoop.it, Storify, WordPress and others all have their own. If you don't know what a bookmarklet is, it's a piece of JavaScript code that you can drag onto your browser's bookmark bar. Most times it's a shortcut of having to go to the application ...

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Leveraging The Right Mindset for Success

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Leveraging The Right Mindset for Success

This podcast really spoke to me. It's an interview with Carol Dweck, a professor at Stanford University. She talks about staying in a growth mindset. What makes some people successful (maybe people you wouldn't have thought would become successful)? And what prevents those people who you thought would become successful from ...

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New Report Shows Social Media Usage for Enterprise Companies

by Nate Devore Nate's Google +
New Report Shows Social Media Usage for Enterprise Companies

Suffering from Social Media overload? Managing all of your social networks, updating G+ and all that? Just imagine trying to manage 178 accounts! On average enterprise companies have 178 social media accounts to manage. That's a lot of tweeting, uploading of photos to flickr, and engaging fans and customers through Facebook ...

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Google Plus Team Introduces Google+ Creative Kit for Photos

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Google Plus Team Introduces Google+ Creative Kit for Photos

The team at Google Plus have just released this fun new Google+ Creative Kit which allows users to easily make powerful edits to photos they upload on the Google Plus platform. Photos are essential to social networking so it makes sense to implement these features and G+ is doing this unbelievably ...

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Ad agencies entertain the thought of what Google + Brand Pages "might"…

by Nate Devore Nate's Google +
Ad agencies entertain the thought of what Google + Brand Pages "might"...

Ad agencies entertain the thought of what Google + Brand Pages "might" look like Mashable asked a few ad agencies to conceptualize Google + brand pages and this is what they came up with (link below). Already some big brands like +Ford Motor Company are testing out G+. When will these ...

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Google's new SSL implementation hides valuable keyword data from webmasters

by Nate Devore Nate's Google +
Google's new SSL implementation hides valuable keyword data from webmasters

Google's new SSL implementation hides valuable keyword data from webmasters Facebook already uses SSL (https in url) to protect the privacy of it's users. This week Google announced that signed-in users will be routed to a secured search environment using SSL. This is great for the user but some SEOs and ...

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Get Real-time Earthquake Updates on Google Plus

by Nate Devore Nate's Google +
Get Real-time Earthquake Updates on Google Plus

Just by following the earthquake stream on G+ you can see updates from people all over the world. In the past, Twitter definitely has been a powerful tool for getting real-time updates from citizen reporters around the world-think back to the tsunami and earth quakes in Japan and other disasters like ...

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How Google Helped A Music Teacher Win 1$ Million

by Nate Devore Nate's Google +
How Google Helped A Music Teacher Win 1$ Million

The story and the way Google used it to their benefit is worth more than the 1$ million. A music teacher with no prior baseball knowledge uses Google search to learn the game and apply the techniques to pitch a perfect game on the Xbox to win the grand prize. Check ...

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Big Brands Lead The Way For Mobile Commerce

by Nate Devore Nate's Google +
Big Brands Lead The Way For Mobile Commerce

In 2010 Amazon and Ebay were two of the companies that pushed mobile ecommerce innovation. With other companies not wanting to take the risk to invest in the mobile landscape, these two companies are paving the way for new mCommerce innovation. In 2010, Ebay introduced their mobile app which enabled both ...

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