Recently,Google Plus has changed their look with Profile Cover pic like facebook,some changes in navigation bar,customizing the apps and dedicated hang out pages to read more about it, just head to their Official Blog Post. Have a look at my Google+ profile below.You can check their guide [With Screenshot] for understanding the new Google+ look easily.
Today i will share some cool apps,tool,extensions for maximizing your Google+ experience and obviously productivity especially for marketers and normal users.So,let’s get into it.
Google+ Widget
- A widget from widgetsplus that shows the latest Google+ posts with +1 on them with your profile/page link.
- Another widget from gplusapi.appspot.com,having many customizing options like number of posts to be shown with link back to your profile/page link.
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Google+ Statistics
These are some great online tools that helps to research your Google+ competitors Google+ pages and analyzing your own campaigns for best output.
- Social Statistics is one of the awesome online tool for top 100 folks on Google+,top pages and even the top posts obviously sorted by the +1 on them.You can easily track the trending stuff on Google+ by hour,day and week.
- CircleCount as the name suggests it tracks the Top Google+ profile and pages which also enable to show their insights like follower history,average shares and comments.
The most interesting feature i like in it that it shows the results based on the gender distribution,country distribution, job distribution and company distribution.
Also Read : How To:Back Up Your Google Plus Data
Google+ Directory
Online Google+ directories will lets you know the folks around your industry.
- FindPeopleonPlus is a great directory of active folks on Google+.The tool having lots of features including the most liked is detecting your Twitter followers and LinkedIn connections who are on Google+ and allowing you to quickly add them to your circles.
- Recommended Users another Google+ directory that shows recommendations by topics such as women in tech, journalists, photographers,scientists, bloggers, etc.It’s a great tool to follow your targeted google+ folks within an industry.
For more Google+ directories have a look to this great G+ post.You will surely like it.
Browser Extensions
- One Of my favorite Chrome extension Extended share For Google+.As the name suggest it extend your Google+ post to different popular social sites right from your Google+ profile.Read my awesome post on it to know some more features of this extension.
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- G++ another great extension/addon for both firefox and chrome browser that lets you add the Facebook and Twitter stream in your Google+ stream.You can easily get incoming stuff from these sites and can comment/retweet right from your Google+ stream.
- Google+ Notifications – extension for chrome lets you keep updated to your Google+ notifications and respond to them without leaving the current page.
For more Google+ extension,have a look into these pages.Google+ extensions for Firefox,Chrome.
Its your turn now !!
Which is your favorite Google+ addon/extension?Which is your favorite Google+ app/tool? Share with us,If i found it useful i will update it here.