Sharing Your Youtube Videos From A Google+ Page: Videos Missing? Modify Your Default Channel.

Update Feb 2019: YouTube is removing all remaining Google+-related features 

Update Jan 2017: amongst the lastly switch to the novel Google+ spider web design, it's no longer possible to insert a YouTube video amongst the instructions here. You tin portion from the YouTube video scout page, or re-create together with glue the YouTube video link inwards a novel post.
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It's tardily to portion a video from your YouTube channel on Google+. Simply select the "Video" sharing option, switch to "Your YouTube videos" together with select an upload from the list.

Sounds straightforward, right? Unfortunately it sometimes doesn't operate every bit expected:  your channel's video uploads may non live listed at that topographic point - or worse, the videos from the incorrect channel are displayed.  To ready that, y'all bespeak to set the default channel for 3rd political party applications your YouTube account. Read on for to a greater extent than detailed instructions.

How to portion 1 of your video uploads on Google+
To portion 1 of your YouTube channel's uploaded videos to Google+ all y'all bespeak to utilization is click the video icon at the bottom of the "Share what's new" box:

Then become to the "Your YouTube videos" tab:

You should come across all of your channel's videos listed there.  Just scroll downward the listing together with select the video y'all desire to share.

But sometimes at that topographic point is a problem.  "Your YouTube videos" mayhap doesn't display whatever videos, fifty-fifty though y'all accept uploads. Or maybe it lists videos from the incorrect YouTube channel.

So why are your videos missing? And what's the fix? Setting the default channel inwards your YouTube account.

One of the features of having YouTube channels linked to Google+ is that y'all tin grapple multiple YouTube channels from your YouTube account. You tin accept 1 channel linked to your Google+ Profile, together with y'all tin grapple upward to 50 YouTube channels linked to Google+ Pages.

When y'all portion a video through Google+, y'all aren't given the choice to select which of your YouTube channels y'all desire to select a video from. And every bit y'all tin come across from the screenshots above, Google+ doesn't fifty-fifty display which channel it's accessing.

So how utilization y'all alter the default channel? You tin utilization that in your YouTube account's advanced settings.

1. Sign into your YouTube work concern human relationship and make certain that y'all are switched to your Google+ Profile identity, non 1 of your Google+ Pages.

If y'all are non using your YouTube channel every bit your Google+ Profile identity, become to www.youtube.com/channel_switcher and select your profile.

2. Go to your YouTube channel's advanced settings (www.youtube.com/account_advanced)

3.  In the drop-down bill of fare nether "Signing inwards to Older Apps" select the YouTube channel y'all would similar to postal service videos from.

"Use my electrical current account" agency that the default volition live your Google+ Profile-linked channel.

Be certain to click "Save" when y'all are done!

4. Now when y'all become dorsum to Google+ y'all volition live able to portion videos from the channel y'all selected.

Note that the default is linked to the Google work concern human relationship that y'all are signed into to grapple your Google+ Page. Each managing director of your Google+ Page together with YouTube channels tin laid their ain default YouTube channel. 

Also banking enterprise complaint that this volition live the default channel for all 3rd political party apps, including video uploading or editing software together with your Blogger blogs.

What if y'all accept multiple Google+ Page-linked channels y'all desire to portion videos from?

If y'all desire to portion videos from dissimilar channels, y'all accept several options.

1. Paste a link to your video straight into the "Share what's new" box on Google+. This is the easiest way to share!

2. If your Google+ Page has multiple managers, y'all tin sign into Google+ every bit a dissimilar manager. Each manager's YouTube channel tin accept a dissimilar default YouTube channel set.

3. In the Google+ video sharing window y'all tin travel inwards a video URL:

4. In the Google+ video sharing window y'all tin utilization a YouTube search:

5. You tin share your video from YouTube directly:

6. Also, when y'all upload a novel video to YouTube, y'all tin portion it straight to the linked Google+ Page or Profile's stream.

Additional information:

Inserting your YouTube videos into Blogger posts afterward linking your channel to Google+: a ready for missing videos

How to laid the default channel for your YouTube work concern human relationship afterward linking to Google+

YouTube Help: Share videos

(updated 6/24/14)
(Last updated: March 2019)

How To Reply To Quondam Youtube Comments Using The Novel Google+ Comment System

One pregnant limitation of the novel Google+ commenting organisation on YouTube is that comments posted nether the onetime organisation convey been effectively orphaned. Conversations convey been abruptly terminated in addition to pending questions are going unanswered, because at that topographic point is no slowly agency to lead reply to those onetime comments.

Andrew Bossom suggests a work-around that lets you lot respond to at to the lowest degree to a greater extent than or less of those onetime comments, in addition to hopefully volition allow you lot instruct the tidings going 1 time again on your channel. If the channel that posted the master comment is linked to Google+, you lot tin sack ship service a novel comment that + mentions the commenter. They volition have a notification of that novel comment that mentions them.

 

Of course of pedagogy that exclusively plant alongside channels that are connected to a Google+ Page or Profile. If the channel is non connected to Google+, in addition to it's of import to reply to them, the exclusively other alternative I tin sack intend of is sending them a someone message. At to the lowest degree thence they won't intend you've forgotten them.

(last update: March 2019)

Blog Equally A Google+ Page: Existent Cite Non Required

Note: Google volition beback upwards your Google+ Page data earlier then. Brand Accounts volition non hold upwards deleted too you lot tin maintain to sign inward straight if you lot accept that laid up.

Note: As of September 2016, it is no longer possible to laid a password for take away sign-in to a Google+ Page or its Brand Account. If you lot accept an existing Brand Account amongst a password set, you lot volition maintain to hold upwards able to sign in.

The alternative is to use a Blogger Profile for your Blogger Account.

If you lot accept a YouTube channel, gamer tag, work concern or brand, you lot may desire to spider web log using that identity, rather than your Google+ Profile's mutual name. If your Blogger work concern human relationship is connected amongst your Google+ account, you lot tin associate you lot spider web log amongst a Google+ Page. But fifty-fifty afterward you've connected your Page, your Google+ Profile shout out volition withal hold upwards the writer of your spider web log posts.

So what tin you lot practise if you lot don't desire your personal Google+ Profile shout out associated amongst your blog? How tin you lot spider web log pseudonymously or anonymously?

You accept a span of options:

1. Use a "limited" Blogger Profile

2. Add your Google+ Page equally a spider web log writer too write posts equally your Page.
     (Note: this is only possible if you lot accept an former Google+ Page amongst a password set).

Authoring posts equally your Google+ Page lets you lot maintain your pseudonymity spell using Blogger's Google+ features.

Revert to a Blogger Profile

Note: amongst the update of the Blogger interface inward Nov 2016, the instructions below are out of date. You tin uncovering this setting nether your Blogger Settings > User Settings.

Current instructions: How to laid a Blogger Profile

If your spider web log is connected to Google+, your Google+ Profile is automatically the writer of each post. You tin build your shout out less prominent past times removing the "Author" champaign from the Blog Post  gadget inward your blog's Layout. However fifty-fifty though your writer shout out may non hold upwards equally visible on your blog, it may withal look inward other places, such equally your blog's post feed. And your shout out too Google+ Profile may hold upwards linked to whatever comments you lot make.

If you lot desire to spider web log nether a pseudonym, i choice is to use a regular "limited" Blogger Profile that is non associated amongst Google+. To switch from a Google+ Profile to a Blogger Profile:

1. Sign to your Blogger Dashboard (https://www.blogger.com/home)

2. Click the gear icon. You tin choose the "Revert to a Blogger profile" choice from the menu.

Alternatively, larn straight to https://www.blogger.com/revert-profile.g

The downward side of reverting to a Blogger profile is that you lot volition no longer hold upwards able to role Google+ features such equally Google+ comments, mentioning people inward your circles and automatically sharing to Google+.

To retain all the Google+ features on your blog, but post using something other than your "common name" you lot tin instead add together your Google+ Page equally an writer of your blog.

Add your Google+ Page equally a spider web log author

Note: equally of September 2016, Google no longer offers the choice to laid a password for a Google+ Page. You tin banking concern correspond to run across if you lot older Page too its Brand Account has a password laid past times opening your Brand Account listing  (myaccount.google.com/brandaccounts), too clicking the Brand Account name. If you lot run across an Update Password button, at that spot is a password set. If you lot don't run across that button, that is non an option.

To role Google+ features on Blogger without using your Google+ Profile equally your writer identity, you lot bespeak to add together a Google+ Page for your spider web log equally an author. Blogger lets you lot add an writer to your spider web log past times adding the author's Google work concern human relationship e-mail address - the trick, then, is doing that for your Google+ Page's Google account.

1. If you lot haven't done hence already, create a Google+ build Page to stand upwards for your blog. You tin practise that at plus.google.com/dashboard

2. Create a password for your Google+ Page.

Instructions here: Set a password for your Google+ Page too connected YouTube channel
Make authorities notation of your Google+ Page's @pages.plusgoogle.com username 

3. Add your Google+ Page's e-mail username equally an writer to your blog 

• Go to your blog's Settings -> Basic
• Click "Add Author"
• Enter your Google+ Page's @pages.plusgoogle.com username
• Click "Invite authors"

4. Copy the "Accept invitation" link

Look for the e-mail writer invitation from Blogger inward the e-mail work concern human relationship laid to have your Google+ Page notifications. 

The invitation volition accept a big orangish "Accept invitation" push - don't click this button!

Instead, re-create the push link. If you lot are using Chrome you lot tin alt-click the push too choose re-create link address. 

(Note: if you've added a Gmail e-mail to your Google+ Page too you lot are receiving the notification inward your Google+ Page's Gmail account, larn ahead too click the button.)

5.  Now opened upwards a novel browser too sign into Google or Blogger (www.blogger.com) amongst your Google+ Page's username too password. Once you lot are signed inward equally your Google+ Page, glue the "Accept invitation" URL into the browser's address bar.

You should run across your Google+ Page's profile photograph too shout out inward the upper correct corner too a big orangish "Accept Invitation" button. Now you tin click the orangish button.

6. Now you lot tin sign into Blogger equally your Google+ Page too post using your Page identity.

7. Optional: Sign inward to Blogger using your master Google account, larn to your Settings too promote your Google+ Page from "Author" to "Admin". As an Admin you lot volition hold upwards able to alter your blog's Layout, run across your Stats too more.

Once you've got it ready it's easy. I'm posting equally a Google+ Page correct now!

Also see Adam Auster's post: Your hugger-mugger blogging identity

Related: Manage your Google+ Settings for your Blogger Blog

Week Inwards Review - January 3, 2015: 2014 Inwards Review, Disabled Adsense Accounts, Google Describe Of Piece Of Job Organisation Human Relationship Security

Happy 2015! Here are this week's updates, tips too articles virtually YouTube, Google+, AdSense too more.

YouTube

• YouTube Creators: vote on your favorite YouTube update inwards 2014 (plus.google.com/+PeggyKTC/posts/fWSzXDizRoH)

Google+

• Review 2014: Google+ gifts a yr inwards Google+ Photos painting (plus.google.com/108932369211903792872/posts/3oCZDFvpkZL)
• Get back upwardly for Clash of Clans (from Supercell, non Google+)
  (plus.google.com/+AyoubKhote/posts/JsQpGj5gV7i)

AdSense

• What happens when an AdSense concern human relationship is disabled for invalid activity? The coin is returned to advertisers (see article: An Insider Told Us Why Google Takes Millions From Web Sites Who Break Its Rules )

Other Google updates

• Google Online Security Blog: Behind enemy lines inwards our country of war against concern human relationship hijackers

Updated March 2019 to take away Google+ links

Week Inwards Review - February 28, 2015 - Youtube Kids, Blogger Porn, Novel Direction For Google+ Photos In Addition To More

Some of updates, tips together with articles from the by week:

YouTube

• YouTube Kids app is launched
• Shorthand vanity URLs for YouTube channels: directly based on new-style custom URLs (posted here)
• Android YouTube app update: just trim down your videos together with banking concern stand upwards for out the novel inline video preview
• iOS YouTube app update: run across what you lot are typing :)

Google+

• AdSense Publishers: there's a novel AdSense Revenue Profile report

Webmasters

• Make certain your site is mobile-friendly (Google volition starting fourth dimension expand mobile friendly every bit a ranking indicate on Apr 21)

Updated March 2019 to withdraw Google+ links

Week Inwards Review - March 28, 2015: Back Upward Local Business, Alive Broadcasting Apps, Big Weblog Images

This week's top updates, tips, articles as well as posts for YouTube Creators, Bloggers, Webmasters, Live Broadcasters, Local Business owners, as well as people living inward the 21st century. Read on for all this week's highlights.

YouTube

• Connect your YouTube channel to Twitter (but non Facebook)  (Google+ news of my post here)
• YouTube Creators: honour gratuitous music as well as images to operate inward your video fifty-fifty commercially!
• YouTube Creators: customize your channel to display playlists as well as highlight other channels
• Three ways to travel out along people from unsubscribing from your YouTube channel (Tim Schmoyer @ Video Creators) 
• Would you lot pay to run across videos from your favorite YouTube stars earlier everyone else? Vessel may endure for you!

Live Video Broadcasting

• Overview of Meerkat for Live Streaming on Twitter as well as Automate the saving of your Meerkat alive flow to YouTube using Katchkat (Krishna De)
• Twitter's Live Broadcasting app Periscope at in 1 lawsuit available for iOS
• Rumor: YouTube taking on Twitch amongst emphasis on gaming alive broadcasts. YouTube's response? An animated GIF.

Google+

• Looking for attention on Google+? Help us to attention you lot (Kamal Tailor)
• Notification Basics: how to read as well as answer to your Google+ as well as YouTube comment notifications (Carol Dodsley)

Local Business

• Support your Local Businesses: transportation a postcard highlighting the local businesses you lot love!
• Local concern owner? Get your concern on the map!

Bloggers as well as Webmasters

• Blogger tip: brand certain your weblog post has an picture at to the lowest degree 400 pixels broad for Google+ to present a full-bleed picture instead of a pocket-size thumbnail when you lot part the link
• Q&A Session for Google's upcoming mobile-friendly ranking change
• Is that shiny badge on your website promoting your competitors?
• YouTube Playlist without Google: Create a YouTube Playlist to embed on your website without signing inward (Amit Agarwal)
• Do you lot display the Navbar at the top of your Blogger blog? (Carol Dodsley)

Productivity

• Export your Google Keep notes to Google Docs to expand as well as edit them

AdSense

• AdSense Publishers: increase your net turn a profit yesteryear focusing on the Long-term Revenue Framework
• AdSense-related highlights of the FTC Staff Report on Google & Antitrust issues: 10 sites stand upwardly for 80% of AdSense traffic, operate of exclusivity as well as preferential handling agreements, lack of alternatives for publishers (sorry Bing ads), as well as declining revenues

Account Security & Management

• Is your Google concern human relationship secure? Check your concern human relationship activity! (Jaana Nystrom)
• Back upwardly your Chrome bookmarks, passwords, history as well as settings (WC Blitzy)

This 21st century life

• Pervasive, persuasive technology: smart plenty to exploit human nature
• Putting women on the map: SPARK is has created a database of locations where women convey made history to Google Field Trip. When you lot are near, you'll endure notified.

For more, follow me on Google+ or Twitter

You tin besides subscribe to my weekly update yesteryear email. 

Updated March 2019 to withdraw Google+ links

How To Abide By Your Shared Hangout Photograph Albums

Update July 2016: Picasa Web Albums volition last retired August 1st. You tin uncovering your Hangout photograph albums inwards the new Learn more)

Update July 2015: Google+ Photos volition last retired July 29th. You tin uncovering your Hangout photograph albums inwards Picasa Web Albums (picasaweb.google.com).

Update Nov 2015: links to Google+ Photos straight off redirect to Google Photos (photos.google.com). There is no way to access Hangouts albums inwards Google Photos.

When yous share a photograph inwards a Google Hangout chat or take a photograph inwards a video call it is added to a shared photograph album that is visible to yous together with anyone else inwards the Hangout.

Hangouts photos are not displayed inwards the novel Google Photos (photos.google.com). However yous tin uncovering your Hangouts albums inwards Google+ Photo albums or Picasa Web Albums the Google Album Archive (get.google.com/albumarchive).

• Find shared Hangouts albums inwards Google+ Photo albums
• in your ain Google+ Photo albums
• in soul else's Google+ Photo albums
• Find shared Hangouts albums inwards Picasa Web Albums (picasaweb.google.com)
• in your ain Picasa spider web albums
• in soul else's Picasa spider web albums
• Having problem finding your Hangout photos?
• check the albums of the other Hangout participants
• if the Hangout history was turned off images volition exclusively last available a curt time
• What yous tin create amongst your Hangout photos

Find shared Hangouts albums inwards Google+ Photos

Note: Google+ Photos volition last retired starting July 29, 2015. You volition withal last able to uncovering your Hangout albums inwards Picasa Web Albums later that date. 

As of Nov 19, 2015, links to Google+ Photos redirect to Google Photos, together with then the instructions below no longer work.

As of August 2016, Hangouts albums tin exclusively last flora inwards the Google Album Archive (get.google.com/albumarchive)

If yous receive got a Google+ Profile your Hangouts albums volition last inwards your Google+ Albums. Because Hangouts album are shared, yous should meet the album inwards the photos of anyone who participated inwards your Hangout.

Find Hangouts albums inwards your ain Google+ Photo albums

1. Sign inwards to Google+ together with opened upward Google+ Photos at plus.google.com/photos/highlights

2. At the transcend of the page click More v

3. From the bill of fare select Albums

Hangouts chat albums are titled Hangout: [name or participants]

Video telephone telephone albums are titled Video telephone telephone on [date]

This is my thinking face

The discover of photos shown is the discover yous shared, non the full discover inwards the album.

Find Hangouts albums inwards soul else's Google+ Photo albums

Note: Google+ Photos volition last retired starting July 29, 2015. You volition withal last able to uncovering your ain Hangout albums inwards Picasa Web Albums later that date. 
Note: every bit of Nov 19, 2015, Google+ Photos links redirect to Google Photos. You tin exclusively access your Hangouts albums inwards Picasa Web Albums. (picasaweb.google.com)

If soul else inwards a Hangout chat uploaded an prototype or soul else inwards a video telephone telephone took a picture, the shared Hangout album should last visible inwards their Google+ Photo albums. 

To sentiment soul else's albums, become to  plus.google.com/photos/[user ID]/albums

For example: On Google+ I am plus.google.com/+PeggyKTC or plus.google.com/103172072345300450419

That way yous tin meet all my world albums together with all albums shared amongst yous at:
plus.google.com/photos/+PeggyKTC/albums or plus.google.com/photos/103172072345300450419/albums

You won't meet whatever Hangouts albums at that spot unless we've been inwards a Hangout together together with I shared an image.

Find shared Hangouts albums inwards Picasa Web Albums

Note: every bit of August 1, 2016 Hangouts Albums tin exclusively last accessed inwards the Google Album Archive (get.google.com/albumarchive). The instructions below volition no longer work.

Hangouts albums are also displayed inwards Picasa Web Albums, whether yous receive got a Google+ Profile or not. Because Hangouts album are shared, yous should meet the album inwards the photos of anyone who participated inwards your Hangout.

Find Hangouts albums inwards your ain Picasa Web Albums albums

To access your ain Picasa Web Albums, open 

 picasaweb.google.com/lh/myphotos

You tin meet all your albums there, including your Hangouts albums

Hangouts chat albums are titled Hangout: [name or participants]

Video telephone telephone albums are titled Video telephone telephone on [date]

 

The discover of photos shown is the discover yous shared, non the full discover inwards the album.

Find Hangouts albums inwards soul else's Album Archive page

You tin sentiment soul else's albums past times going to:

get.google.com/albumarchive/[user ID]

For example:
My Google+ Profile URL is: plus.google.com/103172072345300450419

My world albums together with albums shared amongst yous are visible inwards my Google Album Archive:

get.google.com/albumarchive/103172072345300450419

Note that yous must purpose the 21-digit user ID. Custom URLs volition non work.

Having problem finding your Hangouts photos?

Check other Hangout participants albums

H5N1 Hangout album is visible to all participants inwards a Hangout chat or everyone invited to a video call. However, the Hangouts album volition exclusively last listed amid your ain photograph albums if yous contributed an prototype to it.

If yous cannot uncovering the album on your ain albums page, banking concern gibe the albums page for other Hangout participants.

Check whether the Hangout history was turned on

Photos shared when the Hangout history is turned off volition exclusively last temporarily visible inwards the shared album. After a curt catamenia of time, they'll last deleted from the album.

What yous tin create amongst your Hangouts albums

Once yous receive got accessed a Hangout album, yous can:

• upload images - they should look inwards the Hangout chat 
• delete images yous shared - yous cannot delete images shared past times other people
• download images
• share images 

Learn to a greater extent than inwards the Hangouts help center:

• Share your photos, videos or place inwards Hangouts

Related:  How to uncovering your Blogger weblog photograph albums

Updated March 2019

Week Inwards Review - July 25, 2015: Google Photos, Youtube App In Addition To Google Maps Timeline

This calendar week Google+ announced that Google+ Photos volition hold upwards retired on July 29th. Easing the transition a bit, the Android Google Photos app was updated alongside ameliorate album administration options. On the desktop you lot tin honour your photos inwards Google Photos together with Picasa Web Albums.

Google Maps also got a non bad novel Timeline characteristic that lets you lot rediscover your travels together with photos.  And the YouTube Android app was updated alongside novel features together with navigation.

populace Photo: NASA Captures "Epic" populace Image

Google+

• Google+ together with your business: the Google Apps learning middle has tips for using this "social network designed for businesses"

Photos

• Goodbye Google+ Photos! Hello Google Photos!  (Google+)
• Bradley Horowitz: Extremely excited virtually Google Photos (Bradley Horowitz)
  Folks, nosotros are indeed reading these comments.  Google Photos isfoundational - pregnant we're far from done, together with definitely volition hold upwards growing together with evolving the product.  It is a major surface area of investment for us, together with we're solidly behind it.
• Google Photos atomic number 82 Anil Sabharwal provides some context but about the retirement of Google+ Photos (Anil Sabharwal)
• Google Photos Android app update: photograph descriptions, ameliorate album administration options, direct all photos on a 24-hour interval alongside a unmarried tap (Google Photos)
• Google Photos to Google+: lensman Trey Ratcliff demonstrates how he uploads to Google Photos together with shares to Google+ (Trey Ratcliff)
• The novel Google Maps Timeline non solely lets you lot rediscover your go routes - it also helps you lot rediscover your photos from that day! 
• Google Photos volition allow you lot #paywithaphoto for tasty treats if you lot are inwards NYC, LA, Austin, or Portland
• OK Google: Find "photo spots nearby" alongside Google Now (Google)
• High character photos together with videos alongside inexpensive CCTV photographic telly camera lenses (Instructables)

Local Business

• Google volition take unverified Local Business pages outset July 28 (Mike Blumenthal)
• Local draw of piece of employment organisation owners: continue upwards alongside changes together with updates to local search alongside Nick Rink's weekly Smart Local Roundup

YouTube together with Video Creators

• Redesigned YouTube Android app: subscriptions front end together with center, your fans tin easily subscribe to notifications of your novel uploads together with alive broadcasts, built-in editing tools together with more
• Facebook launching novel features together with controls for video creators, alongside an emphasis on tools for Pages
• Your Timeline: Revisit the places you've explored (Google Maps)
• Google Maps for Android lets you lot add together custom names to locations (Ars Technica)
• Google Maps navigator sounds to a greater extent than similar mom all the time!

Google Voice & Project Fi

• Improved voicemail transcription for Google Voice together with Project Fi (Google Official Blog)

For to a greater extent than updates, follow me on Google+ or Twitter

You tin also subscribe to my weekly update yesteryear email.

Updated March 2019 to take Google+ links

Week Inwards Review - August 22, 2015: Google Photos, Hangouts, Google+ Collections

This calendar week nosotros have new Google Photos features, a abode page for Hangouts, Google+ Collections search in addition to Google back upward on Twitter. 

We also learned "M" is for Marshmallow, YouTube Audio Library has G novel tunes, Maps "Views" was retired, in addition to in that place are updates in addition to tips for Blogger, Google Photos, Google Docs in addition to Sheets.

Image: Elegant Ladies at the Races by Oscar Blum (1867-1912). The lady on the correct would accept loved Google Photos!

Google Support

• New! Tweet your Google production questions amongst the #gHelp hashtag to acquire assist - or natural springtime inward in addition to commencement helping! (Google Top Contributors)
• New! Get assist amongst Google Photos inward the novel official Google Photos Help Forum (forum link)

Google Photos

• New! Get assist amongst Google Photos inward the novel official Google Photos Help Forum (forum link)
• Update: Time-stamp editing on the web, reorder Photos inward an album (Google Photos
• Update: Google Photos for Android immediately supports Google+ trouble concern Pages, offers to a greater extent than Movie editing options, lets y'all reorder content inward albums in addition to more! (Google Photos)
• Update: Google Photos novel feature: rediscover photos from the yesteryear (Google Photos)
• Update: Google Photos for iOS update: modify the encompass photo, salve animations every bit videos, rediscover this twenty-four hours in addition to to a greater extent than (Google Photos)
• Update: Google Maps Views is retired - detect your photos inward Google Maps "Contributions" (Google Maps)
• Tip: Get Analytics for shared Google Photos links (John Elstone)

Google+

• Update: Google+ introduces search for Collections (Peter Zheng)
         Here's what the novel Collections search looks like (me)
• Tip: Google+ Community Owners in addition to Managers: Get Community stats amongst the Community Meter Chrome extension (Olivier Jobert in addition to Romain Vialard)
• Article: Google Photos + Hangouts + Streams: is Google ahead of the times? (Jack Wallen @ Yahoo Finance)

YouTube in addition to Video  

• Update: G costless tracks added to the YouTube Audio Library (YouTube Creators)
• Tip: Creatively role sound effects to ameliorate your videos 
• Tip: Improve sound character inward videos shot amongst your smartphone (Vimeo)

Live Streaming

• Watch coders code live: livecoding.tv makes a solo action social 
• The ultimate conduct to Blab.im (via Mike Downes)

Hangouts

• Update: Hangouts gets a good-looking page of its own at hangouts.google.com (Jordanna Chord)
• Tip: Verify your squall publish to permit your friends easily commencement a Hangout amongst you (Jordanna Chord)

Blogger in addition to Webmasters

• Tip: Blogger spider web log advanced tip: customize a Dynamic Views template (Marc Ridey)
• Tip: site hacked? Here are tools to assist build clean it upward (Google Webmasters)

Productivity - Maps, Docs

• Update: Google Maps Views is retired - detect your photos inward Google Maps "Contributions" (Google Maps)
• Update: Sheets for Android makes it easier to edit spreadsheets on the acquire (Google Docs)
• Update: immediately preview impress layout inward the Google Docs app for Android or iOS (Google Docs)
• Tip: Send your notes in addition to highlights on Google Play books to a folder on Google Drive (Google Docs)
• Tip: Clean upward your Google Contacts (Jordanna Chord)Android

Android

• M is for marshmallow (Android Developers)

Updated March 2019 to withdraw Google+ links

How To Work A Google+ Build Page From Google My Business, Google+, Youtube Or A Mobile Device

Google+ Brand Pages stand upward for brands, organizations, bands, YouTube channels, online-only businesses, in addition to fifty-fifty people who desire to endure able to create create their identity from multiple accounts. The recent update of the Google My Business dashboard has changed the Google+ Brand Page creation process.

You tin cease create a novel Google+ Brand Page starting from several places on Google:

1. Start from Google My Business (business.google.com/manage/)
2. Start from Google+ (click the "Pages" choice inwards the left card plus.google.com/dashboard)
3. Start from your YouTube All my channels page to create a channel in addition to Page together  (www.youtube.com/channel_switcher)
4. On mobile devices, run the Google My Business app

Or, you lot tin cease jump correct to business.google.com/create/brand

I've outlined the procedure below - if you lot would similar to a greater extent than detailed instructions, read on!

How to create a Google+ Brand Page at Google My Business
(detailed instructions)

1. Sign inwards at business.google.com
2. Make certain you lot are viewing the Brand Pages tab. If you lot are not, click the three draw card icon on top left to navigate to your Pages (business.google.com/manage/#/pages)
3. Click the + button at lower correct or direct + Add a build page from the left menu
4. Name the novel Brand Page, cause got the Page damage in addition to consummate the creation process

How to create a Google+ Brand Page starting at Google+
(detailed instructions)

1. Sign inwards to Google+ (plus.google.com)
2. Click Pages inwards the left card (plus.google.com/dashboard), which redirects to the novel Google My Business dashboard
3. Make certain you lot are viewing the Brand Pages tab. If you lot are not, click the three draw card icon on top left to navigate to your Pages (business.google.com/manage/#/pages)
4. Click the + button at lower correct or direct + Add a build page from the left menu
5. Name the novel Brand Page, cause got the Page damage in addition to consummate the creation process

How to create a Google+ Brand Page amongst a YouTube Channel 
(detailed instructions)

This creates a novel channel connected to a Brand Page

1. Sign inwards to YouTube
2. Click the channel icon at top right, in addition to thus click View all for [email]
   (Alternately click the gear icon , then See all my channels)
3. On All My Channels page(www.youtube.com/channel_switcher) click + Create a novel channel
4. Name the novel Channel in addition to Brand Page, cause got the Page damage in addition to consummate the creation process

How to create a Google+ Brand Page on a mobile device
(detailed instructions)

1. Install the official Google My Business app ( from the Google Play Store or from the App Store)
2. Sign inwards to the app amongst your Google account
3. Tap the three draw card icon at top left
4. Tap the Page advert at the top of the card to expand the listing of managed Pages
5. At the bottom of the listing of Pages, tap + Create novel Business
6. Select the Brand option
7. Name the novel Brand Page, cause got the Page damage in addition to consummate the creation process

Do you lot desire to create a Local Page for your trouble organisation that has a physical storefront or sees clients in addition to customers inwards person?  Check out Tim Capper's step-by-step guide to creating a Local Google My Business page at Online Ownership.

Here are detailed directions amongst screenshots that demonstrate step-by-step how to create a Google+ Brand Page.

Create a Google+ Brand Page at Google My Business

If you lot create non cause got a Google+ Profile in addition to you lot don't desire to create a YouTube channel, this is the house to start.

1. Sign inwards at business.google.com with your Google trouble organisation human relationship username in addition to password

Be certain to sign inwards amongst the trouble organisation human relationship you lot desire to "own" the Google+ Page. You tin cease later add Page managers to create create the Page from other accounts.

If you lot create non yet cause got a Google account, or desire to create a novel Google account, click the blueish Get on Google button 

2. Make certain you lot are viewing the Brand Pages tab

If you lot exclusively meet the choice to Add Locations, switch to your Brand Pages. Either click the Brand Pages tab (business.google.com/manage/#/pages) or click the three draw card icon on top left 

In the left card Click the Brand Pages option

If you lot create non yet cause got whatever Pages, you lot may meet the choice to create a Brand Page inwards the left card instead - click that!

3. When you lot are the Brand Pages tab (business.google.com/manage/#/pages) click the + push at lower right 

Alternatively, click the three draw card icon at top left in addition to select + Add a build page from the menu

4. Name the novel Brand Page, cause got the Page damage in addition to consummate the creation process

Enter the novel Page's name.  You tin cease optionally every bit good larn into your website URL in addition to direct a Page type.

Be certain to read in addition to and thus concord to the the Google+ Page terms.

Note that at that spot is no departure betwixt the Page types, thus it should non affair which you lot direct (at to the lowest degree non at this time).

Create a Google+ Brand Page starting at Google+

If you lot are already a Google+ user, you lot tin cease offset the Brand Page creation procedure correct from Google+

1. Sign inwards to Google+ (plus.google.com)

Be certain to sign inwards amongst the trouble organisation human relationship you lot desire to "own" the Google+ Page. You tin cease afterward add Page managers to create create the Page from other accounts.

2. Click Pages inwards the left menu

The Pages link (plus.google.com/dashboard) redirects to the novel Google My Business dashboard

3. Follow the instructions inwards a higher house for creating a Page from Google My Business

Create a Google+ Brand Page in addition to YouTube channel at YouTube

This creates a novel YouTube channel connected to a Brand Page. Note that eventually YouTube volition endure separated from Google+, but correct right away a Google+ identity is however required for novel channels.

1. Sign inwards to YouTube (www.youtube.com)

Be certain to sign inwards amongst the trouble organisation human relationship you lot desire to "own" the Google+ Page. You tin cease later add Page/channel managers to create create the channel in addition to Page from other accounts.

2. Open your YouTube "All My Channels" page

Click your channel icon at top right, in addition to thus click View all for [email]

Alternately, click the Settings gear icon at the top of the card to opened upward your Account Overview (www.youtube.com/account) 

Then click See all my channels or create a novel channel

3. On the All My Channels page (www.youtube.com/channel_switcher) click  + Create a novel Channel

Note: if you lot already cause got a Google+ Page for your brand, business, or organization, click the Page advert to add together a channel to the Page.

4. Create your novel Channel + Google+ Brand Page 

Enter the novel Channel in addition to Page's name.  You tin cease optionally direct a Page + Channel Category (that does non build a departure inwards the type of channel you lot create).

Be certain to read in addition to and thus concord to the the Google+ Page terms.

Create a Google+ Brand Page on a mobile device

The exclusively means to create a Google+ Page on a mobile device is to run the Google My Business app. The app every bit good allows you lot to create create your Pages, add together in addition to take managers, in addition to meet Page Insights.

1. Install the official Google My Business app 

Get the Android version from the Google Play Store or the iOS version from the App Store.

2. Sign inwards to the Google My Business app amongst your Google trouble organisation human relationship

Be certain to sign inwards amongst the trouble organisation human relationship you lot desire to "own" the Google+ Page. You tin cease later add Page/channel managers to create create the channel in addition to Page from other accounts.

3. Tap the three draw card icon at top left 

4. Tap the Page advert at the top of the card to expand the listing of managed Pages

5. At the bottom of the listing of Pages, tap + Create novel Business 

6. Select the Brand choice

7. Create the novel Brand Page

Enter the novel Page's name.  You tin cease optionally every bit good larn into your website URL in addition to direct a Page category.

Be certain to read in addition to and thus concord to the the Google+ Page terms.

Note: at that spot is no departure betwixt Pages created inwards unlike categories.

Click "Continue" to consummate the Page creation process.

More information

•  Tim Capper's step-by-step guide to creating a Local Google My Business page at Online Ownership.
• Google My Business Help Center: Get a brand, creative mortal or organisation on Google
• YouTube Help Center: YouTube in addition to Google+

Posted yesteryear Peggy K

Week Inwards Review - January 16, 2016: Google+, Vr, Blogger, Together With More

This calendar week Google+ updated both the novel desktop version together with Android app, a Google work organisation human relationship is straightaway required for the Google Friend Connect app on your Blogger blog, Google appoints a VP of Virtual Reality, together with AdSense offers tailored Optimization. Plus tips together with updates for YouTube, Google+, Inbox, Google Maps, together with more.

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There is a variety of poverty of the spirit which stands inward glaring contrast to our scientific together with technological abundance. The richer nosotros create got give-up the ghost materially, the poorer nosotros create got give-up the ghost morally together with spiritually. We create got learned to wing the air similar birds together with swim the ocean similar fish, merely nosotros create got non learned the unproblematic fine art of living together equally brothers.

- Martin Luther King's Nobel Lecture, delivered inward the Auditorium of the University of Oslo at Dec 11, 1964

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Google+

• Update Google+ Android app update: improved search, abode stream, together with to a greater extent than (Luke Wroblewski) 
• Update Google+ Web Preview update: pivot a post, easier deed to Collections, simpler Community invites (Luke Wroblewski)
• Tip How to pivot a post to the transcend of a Google+ Collection (Sooraj Wadhwa)
• Tip Move an existing populace post into a Collection (Sooraj Wadhwa)
• Tip Testing Friends+Me - a Google+-centered social media posting tool (Me, Eli Fennell)

Google Small Business

• Update Small businesses: edit your listing or advise an update straight from the Google search results cognition panel (Priya Chandra together with Mike Blumenthal)

YouTube Creators

• Update Free opened upwards beginning Linux video editor OpenShot 2.0 beta is straightaway available (Jonathan Thomas)
• Tip Translations for YouTube Creators: to a greater extent than ways to optimize your YouTube channel (Robert Wallis)
• Tip Plan out your video amongst storyboards - fifty-fifty if yous can't depict (Vimeo)
• Article Robert Kyncl at CES: Why digital video volition overtake TV yesteryear 2020 (ReelSEO)

Go Live

• New Twitter Weaves Periscope Into Its Social Feed - spotter alive without a Periscope work organisation human relationship (TubeFilter)

360 images, videos together with VR

• New 3D Sound for to a greater extent than immersive VR coming to Cardboard (Google Developers Blog, Google Cardboard)
• Update Google forming VR partition amongst Clay Bavor the novel VP of Virtual Reality (Re/Code)
• New Palm-sized “Luna” photographic tv set camera tin capture 360-degree video for immersive VR playback (PSFK)
• New Space Shuttle Tour Cardboard for Android (Paolo Amoroso)
• New Google Street View visits Hamburg’s Miniatur Wunderland - also viewable amongst Cardboard (Google Maps blog)
• Article The novel AdSense Optimization tab shows tailored tips for your site (Inside AdSense)
• Blogger spider web log owners: Do Not Ask "What Is Required For AdSense?" (Nitecruzr)

Messaging (non Hangouts)

• Article Google Maps for Android tells yous when to give-up the ghost (Google Maps)
• New Inbox yesteryear Gmail on the spider web straightaway makes it easier to percentage memories amongst bit access to recent photos together with attachments. (Inbox yesteryear Gmail)
• New It's straightaway easier to organize your files inward Google Drive on desktop (Google Drive blog)
• Tip Using Google Sheets for Dynamic Pricing of Limited Edition Wine (or anything inward express quantity) (Ted Juch)

And more...

• What Sean Penn Teaches Us About How Not to Chat With a Fugitive (The Intercept via Mike Blumenthal)
• This is what happens when yous respond to scam email (James Veitch TED talk)
• Del.icio.us making a comeback? (Tech Crunch)
• 2016 Google Tracker: Everything Alphabet together with Google is working on for the novel year(Ars Technica)
• Alphabet drops the “Google” from Google X’s name, gets novel logo (Ars Technica)
• Google I/O 2016 is alone eighteen weeks away together with for the tenth anniversary it volition supply to Mountain View (Sundar Pichai)
• YouTube Creators interview President Obama alive afterward the State of the Union (YouTube Spotlight together with The White House)

Updated March 2019 to take Google+ links