Sharing how to use the most powerful search engines in the world to spread that content makes me even happier.
The crowd at the International Food Bloggers Conference last weekend in Seattle were incredibly happy to hear from me.
Even without coffee,
Even on a bright and beautiful Sunday morning at the early 9am hour.
They gathered because, Finally! the understanding of just how powerful the Google+ platform is to bloggers is filtering out to everyone.
Lots of questions were fielded, and answered but it all stemmed from this set of slides.
Beginners Guide to getting online with Google+
Being an active participant in Google+ is the fastest way to have your new content found and shared.
Google indexes Plus content continuously.
How to get started in this new social structure is both daunting and freeing.
Starting fresh allows you to classify your audience into contactable circles of interested readers, show a bit more of your personal interests, and make lots of new contacts both domestically and internationally using the exciting free tools like Hangouts on Air.
This hands on session will start at the very beginning, with your profile set up, then progress through setting up a page for your blog.
Building YOUR community on Google+
Having an avid group of fans who read and eagerly want to share your work makes writing a lot more fun and lucrative. How do you create these influencers? One way is to invite them to talk together in a group and let them discussions drive interactions.
Google+ makes creating and moderating a community simple either solo or with a couple of moderators. It can be a wonderful way to support discussion, curate content and answer questions only once while making the answers available to the public or keeping it to a private group.
Bring your laptop if you want to get one setup during our session.
Hosting a virtual book tour using G+ tools.
Published authors know that once you get the manuscript through editing, the tough work of promotion begins.
Having tools that bring interaction, discussion and promotion together to talk with your fans is priceless. Using Google+’s free tools, you can be interviewed by a host, with questions brought in from the audiences on Google+, YouTube and Facebook.
You can hold a virtual cooking class, reading or technique demonstration.
Time Zones or international travel becomes simple with the built in scheduling tools. Best of all, you have an automatically created video of the event to embed and share on your website.
