That’s about the best example I could give you on how well Google Plus works to meet people. In the most timely of fashions I just learn today that two photographers that I met at the Google Plus conference and follow and chat with on Google Plus just got married! They met in a Google hangout and then in person and the rest, shall we say, is history! If you want to read about their story you can do so on Nicole S. The ultimate example of how to meet someone on Google Plus – your husband! Join some live hangouts and meet some people. Join some of the themes, watch some live shows and get into the chat room and participate. Well that should give you quite a few things to check out and dig into on Google Plus. He doesn’t have a page for his show it just shows up in his stream on Monday and when it’s live you can watch it on Google or over on YouTube. Trey’s Variety Hour: every Monday evening Trey Ratcliff hosts a photography talk show where he usually features one guest and they introduce new photographers as “finds” at the end of the show.Photo Talk Plus: live Google hangout every Wednesday evening with photographer interviews, discussions of what’s hot and what’s in the news and everything photo related.The Photoshop Show: live google hangout broadcast weekly with experts from around the world to demonstrate and discuss Photoshop and Lightroom photo editing techniques.Vidcast Network: broadcasts several live Google hangouts with great photography discussions and topics.Light Writing Wednesday: if you love night photography and using flashlights and fun things like sparklers, give this theme a go.Portrait Tuesday: practice up on your people photography skills for this daily theme.Daily Photography Themes: a pretty good list of many of the other daily themes you can participate in.Macro Monday: another daily theme this one for Mondays and macro, or close-up images.Expand your creative thinking with this one. Artistic Google: this group takes Google street view images and transforms them into creative works of art.Caturday: just like it sounds like, post a photo of a cat on Saturday.Night Photography Friday: every Friday share an image taken at night and be inspired by other photographers images as you browse through the participating posts.Chrysta Rae’s Photography Scavenger Hunt: another monthly theme to go shoot and share your images.Photography Project: a monthly hangout meet up to critique and discuss photographs done for an assignment.Find one in your area to join or start one and lead it if there isn’t one! I’ve done just that in Edmonton, AB, Canada. Drink and Click: this is for getting together in real life and a chance to do just that, meet at a pub or cafe and have a drink and talk about photography, then go take some photos, then have another drink.Behind the Lens Photo Critique : this group helps you find images that have been critiqued so you can learn from them, and submit your own to get comments as well (I was just approved to be one of the moderators for this group, so come join me!).Some of my favourite photography themes and projects on Google Plus Some books on Google Plus: I’ve read and highly recommend the first one by Chris Brogan Please watch the video below, then scroll down for any links mentioned during the walk through. It does take a little work to get some “friends” but it’s well worth it, in my opinion. You can’t just sign up, hang out your shingle and expect people to come find you. It’s like any other social media network, you get out of it what you put into it. So I thought I’d make a little video to show you some of the features of Google Plus and how to interact with people on it. I found out how to make it work and now it’s my preferred social media network to connect with fellow photographers. I find it to be quite the opposite but that wasn’t always the case. There seems to be some confusion or mystery around how to use Google Plus, and many people sign up, then come back and tell me there’s nothing there or that it’s a wasteland with no activity. But when I try and get friends to start using it I usually get some form of this answer, “I just don’t get it”. A while back I wrote a couple of articles on Google Plus and why I like it so much ( Five reasons every photographer should be on Google Plus, and Top 50 photographers to follow on Google Plus).
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