What The Plus! Google+ For The Rest Of Us (2000) - Plot & Excerpts
Guy does a great job with this combination How To and more importantly Why To use Google Plus effectively, respectfully and enjoyably. Google Plus is very different from Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest, and Guy shows you how once you understand how to use it you too will find it the best medium for connecting to people that share your passions, and amazing content in those areas. I'd recommend it to regular people looking to explore their interests, to any kind of content creators, especially in creative fields and organizations small or large looking to establish themselves on social media. It's a very quick read with lots of examples, screen shots, references for reading more, recommendations for optimizing your experience, and chapters from other non - celebrity Google Plus users who give perspectives for regular new users, and also specifically for women. Good read and good tool. Guy Kawasaki sure does a good job at explaining the Google plus interface and feature. And that's what it is. A well written manual. Period.I gave this book one star because it reeks of fanboyism. At one point, he compares Google Plus lack of popularity, with respect to Facebook and Twitter, to Macintosh niche user base, with respect to Windows. Mac was a revolutionary product. Is Google Plus in the same leagues as Mac? Do you really think so?People usually don't find their friends and family members on Google Plus. Guy admits it. Then he goes on to explain the reason, "Google+ is a better social network, and many people don’t get it." Do you mean to say Facebook and Twitter users are dense? At no point he addresses the privacy concern that many people have about Google Plus. What about Google Wave and Buzz? What if Google decides to shut down plus too? Again, Guy does not touch this issue.Does having a good manual make Google plus a social network worth moving to? Is Google plus your network? Should you move your online social live, along with your mail, calendar, videos and search history, to Google's server? The manual does not touch these questions even with a yardstick. By the way, did you need a manual to use Facebook or Twitter? I wouldn't be surprised at all if it is later disclosed that Google payed Guy to do some evangelism for their social website.If you like reading manuals then go ahead. This book is for you.If you need to read a manual to use a website. Then this book is for you.If you don't lie in any of the above two categories, then this book isn't for you.
What do You think about What The Plus! Google+ For The Rest Of Us (2000)?
Well, Guy is right.... Try Google+ and you'll wonder why you are still using Facebook...
—Shelby
Great book! Looking forward to the new booking coming out this week!
—kater
A helpful and informative guide to setting up and using Google+.
—Lydia818
Read it. Guy Kawasaki and google+ rocks! 'nuff said!
—D_Dillers
