I’m not always an early adopter to new technology or social media but I definitely wanted to be among the first group of users to surf the Google Plus wave. Kudos to Andres Duque for sending me a Gvite and allowing me to be a Beta Tester. There is so much I love about it but I’ll blog about my personal experience at a later time.
Another opportunity to Beta Test a new website fell into my lap over the weekend when I discovered Scoop it. “Scoop It” is a site that allows users a way to curate any content they find on the web and publish it for all to see. It is very easy to use, edit, and post. I don’t think it can be easily embedded into a WordPress blog but I’v provided a link below.
I found some really great blog posts discussing the benefits and a few negatives of Google +. My plan was to gather up all of the links and drop them at the end of this post when I came across the Scoop It site. As I was exploring it dawned on me that this would be a great format to present my G+ findings. Check it out here—-> Google+ on Scoop it. Note: once you move over to the “Scoop it” site go ahead and click on any of the articles that you are interested in viewing (it’s not just a pretty picture).
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I am currently in G+ and like it, I see it more as a blogging platform than a social network though. Ironically I just published a post with my first thought overview of G+, you can check it out at http://www.nhorstmann.com expect more posts about individual features soon.