Google plus

Google plus is on the rise.

Tools to handle Google+

1. Two Circle Management tools:

Shared circles is a collaboration tool that allows you to group up to a max of 5000 people in meaningful categories eg common interests

a. CircleCount – Chrome Extension and Website

• Best tool to find shared circles
• Enables you to view detailed statistics about your ranking within Google+ community
• Enables you to view stats about interaction on your posts

• Video by Martin Shervington on how to use CircleCount

b. Circloscope – this has both free and paid versions

• Allows you to uncircle inactive users
• Allows you to uncircle those that don’t circle you back
• Analysis of your circle/followers
• Filter and sort by identity
• Add people to your circles
• Export circles in csv format

2. Social sharing tools – not as easy on Google+ as on other social media platforms

a. Replies and More – Chrome extension

• it adds “Reply” and “Reply To Author” buttons to Google+ comments
• it adds a dropdown next to Share with additional sharing options

b. DoShare – Chrome extension

• Works for personal Google+ profiles
• Works for Google+ pages
• Creat a post, schedule it and automatically sends it.
• Supports sharing to circles
• Supports hashtag auto-complete
• Supports multiple Google logins

c. Friends+Me

• reposts your Google+ posts (profile or page) to Facebook (profile or page), Twitter and/or LinkedIn networks
• works across all devices