I'm still sorting through all the people in this circle share (about 25% through now), but one thing has struck me so far: a lot of the people have made comments on how the interaction aspect of G+ is what brings quality into the G+ network. Unfortunately, following interaction is still a bit challenging. We have:
– circles to follow posts that people make
– circles to limit audience for a post that we make
– notifications to 'follow' comments à la forum-style
– hangouts to converse in realtime and meet new people
But, what is missing in it all are a few things, two that I think would go a long way to fix this are:
– mixed filters: people engage differently and intentionally based on various things, including media type, topic of interest, content length, individual contribution, and insightful/humerous value. We need to be able to manage content streams not just by people, but by the nature of content they post.
– highlighting comments: sometimes the best content isn't a original post, but a comment on another post. There should be a way to automatically curate this sort of content similar to the 'what's hot' stream – this is the interaction value that so many people value, but is not easy to pick out. So why not make it easier for us?
Reshared post from +Max Huijgen
Out of the box into a circle: change your G+ world!
The pegs and the holes, the ones who think different, the people who will change your G+ worldA careful selection on relevance, great posts, contributions to debate, original thought and stunning images. If you follow this circle of 200, G+ will never be boring and you are in for a stream of thoughts and beauty.
The familiar faces show up, but it contains a large number of hidden gems if you dig deeper.
As a circle needs a name: "Think different: the interaction circle" will do very well.
Thanks +Jacques J.J. Soudan , I do, in fact, use Evernote to bridge this gap. But since so much of the rest is here on Google+, it seems both silly and a shame to have to jump through the hoops of using various systems. 😉
+Susanne Ramharter I know of one extension to bookmark G+ posts (in Chrome) – saw it a few days, but can't find it right now (what's new….) – did a quick search (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/bookmark%20google%20plus), but don't recognize it…
Also, you could look into Evernote or Springpad.
Hi +Susanne Ramharter You have been included, look for a notification from the original thread. Thanks for your collaboration, look forward to your contribution.
+Brian Gundersen , +Miguel Rodriguez – would it be too pushy if I asked to be included?
Sophie, I "plused" you in the original thread and added the link of the document in the post. Look forward to your contribution.
Go ahead and set her up then +Miguel Rodriguez!
+Miguel Rodriguez +Brian Gundersen sure, count me in!
Sophie: I am helping +Brian Gundersen to crowd source a list of suggestions for G+, and you just made 2 great ones. Do you want to participate in our article?
+Susanne Ramharter good point – i agree completely! Delicious works nicely for this, but a native tool would be better.
+Sophie Wrobel I second your suggestions, also, I would like to be able to star, or bookmark certain posts or comments for myself, of course I can share them with myself but by now my own stream is becoming somewhat crowded.
It would be great to have a function to save these things without having to make extra circles and go through the sharing rigamarole, which is not even possible from the notifications.