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This is Martin Shervington. And in this video, we're going to have an in-depth look at Google+
posts and see some of the really cool things you can do with photos.
Before we get to that, though, we're going to have a quick look at how you can change
your settings and alter who sees what tabs on your profile.
Whatever content you share using Google+, it will appear in the posts section on this
part of your profile. And you can look at this from your perspective, from a public
perspective, or you can enter an individual's name and see what content they would see when
they look at your content on this page. When I view my profile as myself, I can see
these extra tabs such as photos, YouTube, +1s, and reviews. Now I can choose in my account
settings whether I want that content to appear on my profile to be viewed publicly. And I
can do that in this section. If I don't want a tab to appear, I can always
just uncheck a box. Let's now take a deeper look at Google+ posts.
If I add an asterisk (*) either side of a word or phrase, or an underscore (_), or a
hyphen (-), that will change the format. It will make it bold, italics, or make it a strikethrough.
Not only can I add an image to the post, but I can also add text to that image and turn
it into a meme, just by clicking on the letter "T."
Simply type the top, middle, or bottom, choose the alignment, and choose the best font for
the impression that you want to give. When you're ready, just press "save."
Google auto-enhances images. If you want to switch that off, you can hover over and click
the button there. If you want to rotate the image, you can click that several times to
move it into the right position. And if you want to delete, you can click delete.
If I then add multiple images, just by dragging and dropping them into the box, you'll see
that it turns it into an album. And I can then write captions underneath each one. Also,
I can change the size that they appear in front of me.
If you want to change the order in which the images appear, click organize, and either
click on order to choose by one of these options, or just drag and drop the images around to
get to the order that you want. You can also add a name to the album. And
when you're ready, click "done." You may not see the changes until after you've
sent the post. And if you want to send yourself a test post, then you can create a circle
with just yourself in and then just click "share." And there's the post in the new order.
If I want to edit a post, I just click on the dropdown and come to "edit post." And
then I could put in something like a hashtag and then press "save."
This hashtag then appears in grey in the upper right corner. Grey means that it's a hashtag
that I have created. On this earlier post, you can see that Google automatically has
chosen a Google+ hashtag and that has been put in blue. There can be several hashtags
that you'll see in either blue or grey on any post.
And if for some reason, you don't like the ones that Google has chosen, then you can
just hover over and click the "X" to get rid of them.
On this drop down, there are other options as well. I can disable comments, which means
that nobody will able to add a comment. I can disable reshares, which means that people
can't reshare the post. And also if I click, I'm able to delete the
post, and then choose "delete." As long as I haven't deleted the post, I can
still click and enable comments again and enable reshares. When I click on the timestamp
of any post, it will take me to a dedicated page for that particular post, and it has
a unique URL. When I share a post privately, if I click
on shared privately, the card flips, and I can see with whom I've shared it. And just
press this button to rotate it back. When it comes to posting, I should explain
you've got a few options. You can send posts to individuals, to email addresses. You can
send posts to your circles or people that you have in your circles. You can send to
extended circles as well, which is people that have them in their circles. Or you could
send it to public. Now public means that everybody can see it.
In addition to public, I may want to send a message to a smaller group. Now as long
as the circle size isn't too great, you get the option to send an email by checking that
box. If I then click share, they will receive that
message, and it will be public at the same time.
If I want to share an embedded link, I can just click on link, and then drop in the link,
and that will pull up the information from the website.
Now looking at a post I've shared publicly. If I click on the drop-down, you can see that
I can choose to link to a post, and I can copy that web address and then press done.
Next, let's look at the activity on a post. Now you can do this for yourself or for other
people's posts. And there are three ways of finding the activity.
You can click on shared publicly. You can go to the drop down and choose view post activity.
Or you can click in this section of the post. And they will bring you to this particular
set of information. And you can see here the activity on this
post is 201 +1s, 201 reshares, and 58 comments. Then in this section, you can see who has
+1'd, commented, and shared. And you can hover over, and you can add those people to circles.
Or you can click on the name and visit their profile.
And when you're finished, you can just flip the card back.
As soon as a post has had shares, you can view ripples. Ripples show the sharing activity
on a certain post. And as you can see here, there are clusters. This cluster is where
Ronnie has shared my post from my original share. And then other people have shared it
onwards. And I can hover over and I can add these people
to my circles if I wanted straight from the ripples. You can also click view post and
that will take you to their share of a particular post, and you will see the comments from that
share. Now this can also be useful to say thank you
to people who have shared your comment. If I wanted to zoom in, I can click and zoom
in and drag it as well to get it to the size that I want. I can also move the ripples around.
As you can see, there are a few isolated shares occurring. Now this has happened because these
people have visited my website and shared directly from the website that website address
or URL. And this is a similar pattern as the ones you'll get when people are sharing from
YouTube directly. If you scroll to the bottom of the post and
click "play," you can watch how the ripples spread, and you can also see at which points
influencers shared that post. If you scroll down further, you'll get statistics.
One really cool thing is how you can use an embedded link to bring up a presentation,
a Google form, a spreadsheet, a document, all of which are clickable directly from within
Google+ from that post itself, which makes it really interactive.
Let's now look at adding video to a post. Click on video and you can search for the
videos directly as if it's within YouTube. You can enter a URL, you can add your YouTube
videos. You can record a video directly from your webcam, or you can upload them from your
computer. Once you've selected one, you can even press
play and watch it prior to deciding whether to add video. And if you want to remove it
and look to add another, you just click remove. Finally, for this section on posts, if I click
into the box, I can start an event. I can click through and change the theme according
to the kind of even that I'm going to have. Or I can click "change theme" and either choose
one from the selection on the side or I can upload one directly from my computer that
I've already done. Once I've chosen a theme, I can add the title
of the event, the time and date, the location if I want, and also what's the event about.
I can then decide who to send it to. If I come across to event options, I can decide
whether guests can invite people, can add photos, or I can hide the guest list.
And if I click on "advanced," I can decide if it's just going to be a hangout event,
make it an on-air event, and I can show additional fields.
And if I wanted to have it as a hangout, where we're going to watch a YouTube video, I just
drop the YouTube video in there, I invite some friends, and when the event appears,
I can just click on the date stamp that will take me to that event page itself. And you
can see the video ready to play. From the event page, you can share the event.
So this can make it a new post that you're sending to a new audience. Or you could invite
more people and even message guests based upon whether they're replied yes, no, maybe,
or haven't responded yet. You've had the message at the top.
Just to expand, this is one of the events you'll find if you click on events in the
sidebar. And you can also search for more events. Finally you have the option to plan
an event or create a hangout in this section too.
Returning them to the home screen, because it's like a dashboard, you'll also find the
information on upcoming events here, and you can choose whether you're going - yes, no,
or maybe. Let's now take a deeper look at photos. If
I come across the photos icon and click, it takes me to a highlight page.
Just before we have a look at that. You may like to look at what's new, such as something
called "auto awesome," which includes Google automatically taking a series of pictures,
and turning it into a panorama. And you can tell by the symbol if auto awesome has been
activated. Or you may find a series of images are put
together and there is motion. These are just 2 of several effects and you can always go
to your settings if you want to disable that option.
Returning to highlight and you can see a collection of beautiful images from the photographer
Trey Ratcliff. And if I click on 12 more, it will expand, and I'll be able to browse
more of them. Then I can close it back down to the highlights.
And if I want to share that selection, either of the highlights or of the album, I can click
and that will be shareable. And if I want to go to the drop down, I can
tag people, I can add more photos, download the album, add to an event, move the album
to trash, share location data, or hide from the highlights. Next, if you look at photos,
you'll see that you have a collection of all of your images.
If you click on the button that turns it into a blue tick, you can then select on whether
you want to share it, whether you want to copy it to an album, and then choose which
album you want to copy it to. And then you can copy and move it there. Or you may choose
to delete the image. If you click on the image, you have the options
to share, which will bring it into the post box. You have the option to tag people if
there are people in it. You have the option to start a slide show, which will then move
through the images from that point. You also have the option to add it to an album,
to download the photo, or to add auto-enhance. And you can rotate or you could delete the
photo. If you want to navigate through an album,
you can click on right or you can click left. And if you click the central button, it will
bring up the collection of images within that album. And you can navigate forward just by
clicking on each of the images until the end. Jumping back to the edit tab, if I click that,
it will bring up a program. There's a huge amount you can do with this program, but just
as an example, you can crop an image by selecting the area you want and then clicking apply.
You can resize it and change the dimensions. You can change the colors. You can change
the exposure, particularly useful when it's a photo. You can rotate it and decide the
direction you want it rotated. There are other tabs that you can click and
go through and test what the changes would look like, including the effects, and the
decorate, as well as adding text, with a little bit more flexibility than just adding the
text from the post box after adding an image. There are many more fonts and many more styles
as well as being able to move and place it exactly where you want on the image.
When you're ready with the changes to your image, you can click "save" and then click
whether you want to replace the existing image or save it as a new copy. (Or you've got the
option to cancel.) If I want to explore the image, I can position
the cursor and zoom in and zoom out on different areas. And we can zoom the areas I'm zooming
it in and out on this section. Very often with images, you'll have the option
to tag or to not tag. And you can also choose whether to have the enhanced or revert to
the original image. If you click on photo details, it will bring
up whether there was a location added, and potentially a map, and the camera information
that it was taken with, and the amount of views that that image has had appears at the
bottom of this list. Next we come to albums. If I click on an album,
I can organize the images by clicking organize and then dragging those around. Or I can choose
the order from one of these options. I can also change the name of that album, and I
can upload more images to the album here. Then if I click on the "more" tab here, you
can see the auto backup. Now these are images that have been taken on my phone that will
be backed up straightaway into Google+. There are those from my posts. There are photos
of me, which are ones that I've been tagged in.
And I can approve or remove any of those tags. I can view the images that I'm in with other
people by clicking on view all. And then if I select an individual, it will bring up the
images which we're together in. There's the images that have been put into trash.
Finally, I can search using Google+ to find any images relating to a particular search
term. This is Martin Shervington. Please subscribe
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on the annotations, you'll find more videos in this series.