Category Archives: Google+

Flop of the Year: Google+

Trust me I’m not happy about this.  Personally, Google+ is far more enjoyable for me than Facebook.  AND it works seamlessly with my Android phone.  But the fact remains that it isn’t getting used.  Here is the evidence: I have … Continue reading

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Google+ Hype for Lawyers

Larry Bodine maybe the official cheerleader for “Lawyers who love Google+” while Adrian Dayton is the curmudgeon, the skeptic with his arms folded, with a “wait & see” attitude.  I definitely fall into the later camp.  Here’s why: While I … Continue reading

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Google+ Adds Business Pages

Google+ is becoming more like Facebook all the time.  Now it has launched “Pages” which is its equivalent of Facebook’s fan pages.  This article suggests one of the key advantages Google brings to the social media table is search.  What … Continue reading

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Hope for Google+ with Lawyers

Here is a story about using Google+ first as an internal tool for corporate legal management in-house.  The article goes on to suggest that Google+ provides a great platform to share information, documents, chat, posts and it can be easily … Continue reading

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Stuck on Google+

I just read Kevin O’Keefe’s post about Google+ hitting 50 million users.  I also read his response to Adrian Dayton about how lawyers should hold-off on using Google+ until it becomes more widely used. O’Keefe’s position is that being an … Continue reading

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Google+ Failed My Test

So recently I posted about the paucity of Google+ activity here.  I posted my challenge to Google+ where I share with a couple of people at Google as well as scores of others and guess what?  No one responded to … Continue reading

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Is Google+ the Forest Where No One Hears a Tree Fall?

I was an early adopter to Google+.  I like the “stream” feature more than Facebook’s wall. And I love creating the circles and looking at its wheel-like graphics.  BUT while I have nearly as many people in my circles as … Continue reading

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Google+ Maybe Sexy but Its not LinkedIn

Wayne Breitbarth makes a couple of great points in this interview.  I presented with Wayne on LinkedIn for Lawyers earlier this year and I read his book, The Power Formula for LinkedIn Success, which is an excellent “how-to” guide to … Continue reading

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Cross-posting Google+ to Facebook?

In my last post I mentioned a post that showed you how to cross post a Google+ comment to Facebook – in 9 steps!  Today I read Kevin O’Keefe’s post about how Google+ was now letting you share with Facebook … Continue reading

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Are People (Let Alone Lawyers) Actually Using Google+?

I’ve seen stories that 20 million people have become members of Google+.  I’ve seen several articles in the legal blogsphere about how great Google+ is as a more secure form of Facebook.  I like Google+ and would prefer to contribute … Continue reading

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