This post does not surprise many people that have added me to their circles on Google+. Even in the latest episode of Jason², Jason Markow mentions how he believes that I’m in “…every single hangout…”  which may or may not be true(start a hangout, see if I show up), but I’ve used Google Hangouts as soon as I got on Google+.

The cause for this blog post is I just hosted a Hangout for our Fantasy Football draft, and it was just so fun. There was smack talk going on for this upcoming season, there was sighs when the person they were going to draft next got picked by someone else. And it contained people in the same town as me, and people 100′s of miles away. Hangouts brought it all together.

Go no further in reading if you do not have a Google plus account…send me your email address(must be a gmail or google account) and I will send you an invite. There…got that out of the way.

Another Social Network?

Yes! It is another one. But I would keep my eye on this one. Everyone uses Google, whether for search or email, maybe maps, or the power user like myself that also uses Google Docs and Calendar. And it seems if you step back and look at the things surrounding Google+, looks like Google is going to integrate all their products with every single one of their other products.

Next is how to prepare your business for it!

I’ve been known to say that twitter isn’t a IM client (I tried to find the many tweets that I’ve said that, but that takes too long), but after years of changes to twitter, when someone responds to everybody on twitter, it doesn’t spam up your timeline like it used to. So I’m changing my tune a little.

If you’re into online marketing, or I should say unmarketing, then you need to follow Scott Stratten (@unmarketing). He tweeted this out today…

Who will win? I hear this question quite about actually. It’s just a fun, sometimes silly, question that people ask. But it gets me thinking every time “If I could only go to one of these two websites, which would I choose? Twitter or facebook?”.

My Quick Response To This Question

I’ll tell you right now, I’ll quickly answer twitter. And it’s more about what I don’t like about facebook. I don’t care much to look through a whole album of pictures from your family reunion, or what task you completed on some online game that you invited me to a week before. I just like status updates on facebook. I honestly want to know if you’re having a turkey sandwich for lunch today. That’s weird, I know, and if updates were 100% just that, I wouldn’t like it as much, but my statement still stands.

Do you twitter? Are you on facebook? Are you getting left behind in your business?

The New York Times is going to eliminate their social media editor position….first impress of the announcement sounds like there is no need for social media in the workplace, but it’s actually just the opposite.

I was out to lunch with a friend of mine, Josh, and I told him some great advice on how to get more online social interaction…

“If you tweet or post something on Facebook about one of two topics, the weather, or food, you will get responses from your friends before we leave this fine eating establishment.”

I said something like that, may not be the exact words…but no matter, it was truth. Not only did he get Facebook comments on his weather update here in Florida, he got a personal text message about said update. It worked better than what I even thought.