Friday, May 29, 2015

Do you use hangouts and wish you could...

Originally shared by Michael Daniels

Do you use hangouts and wish you could...

►Add lower 3rds for all your guests
►Conduct a poll or watch a video right in your hangout On Air
►Bring all the pertinent comments right to the top of the page ready for you to bring on screen.

Well Business Hangouts is a great solutions
They have office hours at noon eastern today.  Come ask questions!
https://business-hangouts.com/office-hours/
https://business-hangouts.com/office-hours

Sure to be of interest to the community!


Sure to be of interest to the community!

Originally shared by Craig Tumblison

Sunsetting the Google+ Photos Chrome app.

It seems that in light of the recent Google Photos launch, the Google+ Photos app for Chrome will be shut down on July 21, 2015. The following information is from the help center announcement.


What's changing

The Google+ Photos app won’t work anymore. Any photos that you've uploaded with the app are safe and won't be deleted. You can see the photos you previously uploaded at photos.google.com.

You won't be able to view photos or upload new ones with the app after July 21, 2015. View and upload photos using photos.google.com instead.

You can upload new photos or see the photos you previously uploaded at photos.google.com. You won’t be able to view your photos offline at this time.

If you're on a Chromebook, you can also upload your photos to Google Drive with Cloud Backup.


What isn't changing

Google+ Photos isn't going away. We're launching Google Photos to give you an even better way to manage your photos online.


You can find the full details here:

https://support.google.com/plus/answer/6238059


You can learn more about the Cloud Backup feature built-into Chrome OS devices here:

https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/6206527


#GooglePhotos

Thursday, May 28, 2015

Sure to be of great interest to members of the community!


Sure to be of great interest to members of the community!

Originally shared by Sean Grace

YouTube Will Now Connect to Google Shopping for a Seamless Experience From View to Purchase

This is really big news for eCommerce, and will be a powerful indicator of the role visual marketing plays in the purchase process. 

Imagine some possibilities:

1. Watching an unboxing of a new tech gadget and being able to buy it through your Google account with a single click. 

2. Viewing a how-to video for a household DIY project and ordering all the materials needed as they display on your screen? 

3. Watching the new music video from your favorite musician, and clicking a button to upload their new album to your Google Play account.

This is a big customer-centric advancement that will not be at all easy for competitors to copy.

Here's some detail from the article: 

"The video site will now be connected to the technology which powers Google Shopping which will enable advertisers to display links to individual products."

"Prices and descriptions will also be displayed from the ad video, this will give them the ability to combine a broad branded message with targeted items to customers."

Full article: http://www.cbronline.com/news/social-media/management/youtube-latest-to-take-on-amazon-ebay-in-ecommerce-4583717 

What do you think of this approach to eCommerce by Google & YouTube?  

image via ecomhc

Wednesday, May 27, 2015

All is good... sort of

All is good... sort of

Originally shared by Andrew Hatchett

All I can say is... You've been warned!

All I can say is... You've been warned!

Originally shared by Google Plus Daily

Brace yourselves, sticker spam is coming.

#hangouts

Color me gone -


Color me gone -
but as someone once said...

I Shall Return!

This month we are featuring American recumbent trike manufacturer TerraTrike as we interview Jeff Yonker the...

Originally shared by Gary Solomon

This month we are featuring American recumbent trike manufacturer TerraTrike as we interview Jeff Yonker the director of marketing. Jeff, otherwise known by his friends as "Chonk", will fill us in on the history, current status, and future direction of TerraTrike. I'll see if Jeff will talk about some of their famous customers and their everyday customers who are famously loyal to the brand. Finally we have a live tour of the TerraTrike facilities in Grand Rapids, Michigan. We'll then engage in another lively panel discussion with my pals Travis Prebble, Carl Kidd, Lars Komm, and our newest pundit Denny Voorhees. Travis will fill us in on the latest in the recumbent world from the Laidback News Desk and finally the monthly contest winners will be announced from our Recumbent Bike Rider Community here on Google+. As always we will take your questions and comments on air so please join us live if you can.

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Remaining HOA Events this week


Remaining HOA  Events this week

I'll be leaving sometime tomorrow for an extended weekend in the mountains. Shown below are those HOAs of which I'm aware that will be happening the rest of this week. Enjoy!

Just a reminder...

Just a reminder...
11AM PDT - 12Noon MDT - 1PM CDT - 2PM EDT

http://kraaftshaak.com/live/
http://kraaftshaak.com/live

The following 3 HOA events featuring members of the User2User-LIVE!


The following 3 HOA events featuring members of the User2User-LIVE! Community are happening today, Tuesday, 26 May, the 145th day of 2015. There are 220 days remaining in the year.

Monday, May 25, 2015

This is the link to the User2User Video Vault:

This is the link to the User2User Video Vault:

aghbs.blogspot.com

PLEASE DO NOT POST IN THIS CATEGORY!

Details of the new User2User Video Vault Blog

Details of the new User2User Video Vault Blog

The blog will have both links and embedded videos of member public videos for the previous seven days that have been uploaded to Youtube.

Videos older than seven days will have only the links to the YouTube video.

This was done as a compromise to reduce the page loading time. There are presently an average of 12-15 videos per day being uploaded. To maintain older embedded videos slows the page loading to an unacceptable degree.

There will be no comments allowed on the blog itself. Those should be left on the individual YouTube videos for the creators to see.

The link below will take you to a sneak peak of what is intended.

Your thoughts and comments are welcomed.

For those of you who can't attend live...


For those of you who can't attend live...
This may be of interest

Originally shared by Craig Tumblison

You're Invited to a Google I/O Live Chat!

Fellow Chromie,

What's better than watching a Google I/O live stream video? Talking about what's being announced with fellow geeks!

Following the success of the last couple of years, the Google+ and reddit Chrome OS communities will be jointly hosting a chat room on IRC for all our fellow Chrome OS enthusiasts. Think of it as one big party, and you're all invited.

We've picked IRC because it is a neutral platform that is better suited for real-time discussion than either Google+ or reddit truly is. It's also super easy to use, doesn't require the creation of new accounts, and will work on Chrome devices with ease.

Speaking of the "ease" aspect, if you're new to IRC we've compiled a getting started document that offers you the choice of installing a Chrome Packaged App, or connecting directly from a browser tab using a web version. Either way, your Chrome device will be a portal to the party.

Feel free to ask any questions you may have in this thread.

We look forward to seeing you this Thursday!

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IRC Starter Guide:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o5T_nB5so_A0Xowcxr1pJynGZwAhgZCqtUHZpgH_PT8/edit?usp=sharing

Server: irc.freenode.net
Channel: ##io15

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Google I/O Broadcast Times:

Thursday May 28th, 2015

- Eastern: 3:30 PM
- Central: 2: 30 PM
- Mountain: 1: 30 PM
- Pacific: 12:30 PM

You can find a full list of adjusted times at the website below:

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Google+I%2FO+Keynote+Livestream&iso=20150528T1230&p1=224

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#io15   #ChromeOS

Just a Reminder...

Just a Reminder...

 8 am Pacific,  9 am Mountain,10 am Central, 11 am Eastern
https://kraaftshaak.com/watch-now/monday-meanderings/

The following 4 HOA events featuring members of the User2User-LIVE!


The following 4 HOA events featuring members of the User2User-LIVE! Community are happening today, Monday, 25 May, the 144th day of 2015. There are 221 days remaining in the year.

Saturday, May 23, 2015

This site could prove useful for those creating Lower Thirds/Custom Overlays for HOAs

This site could prove useful for those creating Lower Thirds/Custom Overlays for HOAs

Originally shared by Kristin Davis

#AWESOMMME  icon site with 3669 icons in its current database which you can use to customize and download in any color and size that you want. I've never seen anything like it.

Guess it really pays well to act upon your curiosity. ;D
...I found it while searching for a 'cabinet' to go along with my quote-graphic I'm making of Teodora Petkova's Curiosity Cabinet analogy. 

Enjoy❣

#WebCustomization   #Icon   #FreeIcons    
http://www.iconsdb.com/custom-color/filing-cabinet-icon.html

The following 3 HOA events featuring members of the User2User-LIVE!


The following 3 HOA events featuring members of the User2User-LIVE! Community are happening today, Saturday, 23 May, the 142nd day of 2015. There are 223 days remaining in the year.

Friday, May 22, 2015

Thursday, May 21, 2015

Sure to be of interest to members!

Sure to be of interest to members!

R.I.P. "Ripples"

R.I.P. "Ripples"

Google + removes Ripples

Originally shared by Google+

Starting today, the Ripples feature in Google+ is no longer available. Page owners can continue to get post performance analytics through the Google+ Insights tool, located in the My Business dashboard. Thanks for your support as we continue to make Google+ a simpler, more streamlined experience for all.

This will be of great interest to members using Chrome

This will be of great interest to members using Chrome

Originally shared by Peter Kasting

Today we announced we're extending the restriction on non-web-store extensions to more Chrome channels.

http://blog.chromium.org/2015/05/continuing-to-protect-chrome-users-from.html

I've read a number of grouchy posts on e.g. Reddit claiming this is all about trying to control what extensions users use, in particular because the web store doesn't allow things like Youtube downloaders.

The sad truth is that malicious extensions mucking with Chrome are by far the biggest problem we deal with today.  A HUGE fraction of Chrome users are infected with such things (or worse), and it results in an enormous number of problems, many of which get reported to us as bugs and help center requests, many of which don't.  (It was amusing that on the same Reddit forum people were whining about this were multiple other top-level posts on the same page begging for help with Chrome-targeting malware.)

To some degree, fighting malware is an arms race, and we won't be able to perfectly win.  But our previous restrictions here were able, alone, to reduce the number of support requests we got for such issues by 75%.   That's enormous.  Think about the magnitude of the number that represents, when you consider that Chrome has hundreds of millions of users.

So no -- this has NOTHING to do with trying to prevent Youtube downloaders or whatever.  We've been forced to this by bad actors, and we're doing it because we think it's in the best interest of our users.  I'm sorry that there are some people inconvenienced by this.  But at least I want them to understand that our motives here are what we say they are; there's nothing ulterior going on.

Just a reminder..."


Just a reminder..."

Thursday's Tech-Talk Helpin
Tonight: 7PM-10PM Central Time

bit.ly/ThurTechTalks

The following 7 HOA events featuring members of the User2User-LIVE!

The following 7 HOA events featuring members of the User2User-LIVE! Community are happening today, Thursday, 21 May, the 140th day of 2015. There are 225 days remaining in the year.

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

The following 3 HOA events featuring members of the User2User-LIVE!


The following 3 HOA events featuring members of the User2User-LIVE! Community are happening today, Wednesday, 20 May, the 139th day of 2015. There are 226 days remaining in the year.

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Hello and thank you for the invitation to the community.

Hello and thank you for the invitation to the community. I can already see I'll love connecting with you all. A little about me: I'm a mad passionate girl who finally stopped ignoring the entrepreneurial voice screaming at me. Lol, now I am a passionate marketer, mentor, and consultant. Connecting with people brings a big smile to my face, and anyone who's seen my videos know I have a big cheese. Lol😆

Looking forward to meeting you and sharing!

Let's play a game


Let's play a game

Everyone can play.  It is called...........
Let's make a Guest Checklist
We are going to make a checklist of all the things that you think are important to tell your guests before they come into a hangout as a "Guest".

Here are the rules: (I know, I know Me with rules LOL!)
1) Only ONE comment per member here in the community. I know it will be tempting to add many more, please just 1. I really want this to be collaborative.
2) Please don't repeat someone else's comment.  If you happen to write at the same time as someone else, the first person's we will keep and the 2nd person deletes theirs and adds something else.
3) I would like this list to be searchable in this community so be sure it is on topic of what a Guest needs before being a guest.

Thanks Everyone!
who wants to go first :)

Hello My name is Johan and I am from Brussels.

Hello My name is Johan and I am from Brussels. Love to take the opportunity to say hello to everyone here in this community.  I am a Digital Marketing Strategist and look forward to help or inspire anyone with my insights. 

Affordable - Selfpowered - TimeSaving - Fun are the words triggering me the most in Digital Marketing Solutions. Hope to make friends here  to participate and collaborate in hangouts and looking forward to startup my own show on G+ .

Just FYI...


Just FYI...

I've recently begun work on two projects that require me to be online during a specific time-frame (2AM-6AM Central time).

This means I probably won't be online as much during the day as I previously was as well as answers to emails being a bit delayed. Thanks for your understanding.

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The following 3 HOA events featuring members of the User2User-LIVE!


The following 3 HOA events featuring members of the User2User-LIVE! Community are happening today, Tuesday, 19 May, the 138th day of 2015. There are 227 days remaining in the year.

Just a reminder...Today!

Just a reminder...Today!
11 am Pacific - 12 Noon Mountain - 1pm Central - 2pm Eastern
http://kraaftshaak.com/live/
http://kraaftshaak.com/live

Monday, May 18, 2015

Welcome Doug Warren !


Welcome Doug Warren !

Welcome Christina Ervin!


Welcome Christina Ervin!

Sure to be of interest to the membership

Sure to be of interest to the membership

Originally shared by Chad LaFarge

Struggle of Including Video with Audio in Hangouts on Air
Hi, folks... just a demo of how to use XSplit Broadcaster 's "Audio Preview" feature, coupled with Wirecast's Virtual Microphone, to stream Video with Audio in a Hangout on Air.

I hope that one day XSplit will build in its own Virtual Microphone tool, but until that comes, this will do the job. I know I know: it forces you to use competing products, why not just use Wirecast? I'm more comfortable using XSplit and know how to make it do most of what I'd ask it to do.

Hope this helps someone.

Want to chat?


Want to chat?
I am going to sit in a hangout till about 9:30
If you want come chat, ask something, whatever
http://bit.ly/NightlyChats

Hi, My name is Kai-Ashley. Introducing myself and saying hi!

Hi, My name is Kai-Ashley. Introducing myself and saying hi!

I am a transformational success coach and love helping people to overcome their fear of failure and transform their lives - it truly is my passion! I am here because I have a great desire to have my own Google HOA but don't really know where to start... Well, actually I just want to start even if I don't have an audience yet! So will be asking some questions about that....

More about me: I live in Spain, have lived in 5 countries on 3 continents over the last 8 years and traveled many more. Grew up in Australia but consider San Francisco my home, even though I don't live there anymore.

I am co-facilitating an online mastermind and about to  run my first online program to help people use the power of their mind-body connection to believe in themselves and manifest their dreams!

Welcome Johan Claeys


Welcome Johan Claeys

I should know the answer to this question but unfortunately I am having a senior moment:

I should know the answer to this question but unfortunately I am having a senior moment: 

How many participants can their be in the film strip of a BHOA? 

Thank you for your patience.

Join us in The Wisdom Factory this Wednesday:

Join us in The Wisdom Factory this Wednesday:
*Sustainability is the first step out of the abuse and waste of our planet *- But is it enough for THRIVING? Obviously it isn't.
Robin Wood  will explain a new - and doable - technology to create a Thriving Planet studied by the THRIVEABILITY FOUNDATION. If you are concerned with creating a world of beauty, health and abundance - come and join us next Wednesday!
#sustainability   #thriveability   #care   #thewisdomfactory   #thepowerofrelationship  

Originally shared by The Wisdom Factory

The Technology for a Thriving World
SInce the last 40 years when sustainability concepts began to be considered, our consumption of the planet went up from the entire planet to ONE AND a HALF PLANET and we are already living the consequences: climate change is undeniable in the experience of most of us.

Thriveability is supposed to help organizations who produce the negative impact on the planet to move from the current stage to a stage of development where they are capable to be re-generative.

Regeneration can be done very effectively because there is a lot of data which can be used in an integrated way to go through a process which creates not only sustainability, but THRIVEABILITY.

This process is a true WISDOM TECHNOLOGY, articulated in 6 stages. Dr. Robin Wood will lead you through the 6 stages of the process which you can adopt for your personal life, for your community, your business, your organisations.
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Interested? Then please answer YES to the question of whether you will attend. Then you get a reminder, and you can always watch the video recording by clicking on the corresponding entry in your Google Calendar.
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Please forward the invitation to your friends interested in CREATING A BETTER WORLD
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About Dr. Robin Wood 
Robin Wood  is Founder of the ThriveAbility Foundation.  The ThriveAbility Index and Assessment enable organisations to take transparent strategic decisions that enhance the thrival of their key stakeholders with a lower footprint through irresistible innovation breakthroughs.

Robin says: My journey as a person,  the link to ThriveAbility, is the deep need I've always felt to be close to nature, and the pain I've always felt seeing the damage and destruction our industrial civilization has been inflicting on the planet, together with the growing, very serious dangers of climate change now looming over us.

Taking a careful look inside of all of us, I realised that we will need to motivate ourselves very differently in the future if we wish to survive as a species. This combined my lifelong interest in psychology, my passion for science with an aptitude for business and a love of all things integral, packaged into ThriveAbility. See my website for more of the backstory: www.rlw.zone.

About your hosts:
Mark Davenport     is an American Midwesterner, frequent visitor to and now resident in Italy.  Degrees in English Literature and Secondary Education preceded a Masters degree in Italian Literature from the University of Wisconsin.  Years of teaching at secondary and university levels were followed by ever more “human interest” years as a certified drug and alcohol counselor, then to more mellow years in retail, culminating in more years as a “full time” retired Floridian before coming out into life again in Italy with years of philosophical, psychological and spiritual study supporting his passion to bring all that “head” knowledge to a practical emotional, physical and behavioral level where true transformation lies - after all those decades of half-life so many of us experience.

ABOUT Heidi (Adelheid Hörnlein   ) 
A native German and living in Italy for the past 30 years. I have an MA in communication science, was a professional singer, voice teacher, voice therapist before I was licensed in Gestalt Counseling and Transformative Coaching (Approach: ‘Feminine Power’ and related). I am also licensed as transformative leader. I am holding seminars and courses, live and online. My passion is 1:1 coaching for whatever difficulties people encounter in life, especially regarding relationships, but not only. If you are inspired to do so, please ask for a free discovery session by connecting with me on G+ or via our website: http://ThePowerOfRelationship.Com
 

#thriveability   #sustainability   #technology   #organization   #ecology   #thewisdomfactory   #thepowerofrelationship

Just a reminder...

Just a reminder...
https://kraaftshaak.com/watch-now/monday-meanderings/

8 am Pacific, 9 am Mountain, 10 am Central, 11 am Eastern
https://kraaftshaak.com/watch-now/monday-meanderings

The following 8 HOA events featuring members of the User2User-LIVE!

The following 8 HOA events featuring members of the User2User-LIVE! Community are happening today, Monday, 18 May, the 137th day of 2015. There are 228 days remaining in the year.

Saturday, May 16, 2015

People have asked:

People have asked:
"How do you make one of those on screen thingys"

So I decided create a quick tutorial and TIME MYSELF.

Come watch and learn

  #MDQuickTip  

h/t Terry Leigh Britton for helping me a long time ago and also for the pixlrtemplates.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0Wj0ezCaGU&feature=share

This may be of interest to members using the Firefox browser

This may be of interest to members using the Firefox browser
"The addition of Collections has broken encryption in Firefox for most of Google+"

Originally shared by Mike Noyes

The addition of Collections has broken encryption in Firefox for most of Google+. I've sent feedback.

Technical Details (Home, Photos, Communities)
Broken Encrypton (TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256, 128 bit keys, TLS 1.2)
Parts of the page you are viewing were not encrypted or the encryption is not strong enough before being transmitted over the Internet.
Information sent over the Internet without encryption can be seen by other people while it is in transit.

Technical Details (Collections)
Connection partially encrypted.
Parts of page you are viewing were not encrypted or the encryption is not strong enough before being transmitted over the Internet.
Information Sent over the Internet without encryption can be see by other people while it is in transit.

This will be of interest to members interested in Live Streaming/YouTube

This will be of interest to members interested in Live Streaming/YouTube

Originally shared by Bern Rexer

YouTube Help Forum 
Live Streaming
https://goo.gl/36Qyl8

Quick question...I am setting up a Youtube account for an organization, members want to subscribe to channel...

Quick question...I am setting up a Youtube account for an organization, members want to subscribe to channel...
If a member leaves the organization, can we delete them from the channel, and can we add them back if they become a paid member again?

I did see where we can BLOCK them, but is it easy to allow them to come back if the re-join?

The following 2 HOA events featuring members of the User2User-LIVE!


The following 2 HOA events featuring members of the User2User-LIVE! Community are happening today, Saturday, 16 May, the 135th day of 2015. There are 230 days remaining in the year.

Friday, May 15, 2015

Just a reminder about Tomorrow's special event...

Just a reminder about Tomorrow's special event...

Originally shared by Michael Daniels

Saturday May 16th.............

One year anniversary of our recorded Game shows

Hello Folks,
Since it is our one year anniversary on May 16th we will be conducting a very special Game show.

Many folks from the UK and in Europe have always wanted to participate but unfortunately with the time difference they have been unable to attend.  I would like to reach out to these folks and invite them into this Special episode.  I want all of you.

We will have a hangout from 3pm to 9pm Eastern time.
Everyone is invited.  I would love to have everyone that has been on the show in the past year to come on in.  I am going to try to get as many people in the hangout at varying times throughout the six hours.

Please come join the fun.  When I get the Event created I will come back and add the Event link to this post.

Please pass the word!
These are folks that we have had on the show in the past or regulars in the audience.  Not meant to be a total list just went through a bunch of the last few shows and added folks.  

Thank you for your support!
http://bit.ly/GameShowHOA

#GameShowHangout     #Plusword    #plusword05162015  
events/cuagfhch7t5h86ippnsohsrlquo

Just a reminder...

Just a reminder... 
 9:00 am Pacific Time   /   12:00 pm Eastern Time   /   6:00 pm Central Europe
http://business-hangouts.com/office-hours/

The following 3 HOA events featuring members of the User2User-LIVE!


The following 3 HOA events featuring members of the User2User-LIVE! Community are happening today, Friday, 15 May, the 134th day of 2015. There are 231 days remaining in the year.

Thursday, May 14, 2015

*Join us Every Thursday night 7PM-10PM CDT for TechTalks Helpin

*Join us Every Thursday night 7PM-10PM CDT for TechTalks Helpin

bit.ly/ThurTechTalks

As a followup to Ronnie Bincer's HOA yesterday, this may be of interest to community members.

As a followup to Ronnie Bincer's HOA yesterday, this may be of interest to community members.

h/t to Stephen Pritchard

Originally shared by Audio Video Pro

Tripod maker develops hardware kit to turn iPad Air into monitor and controller
http://www.audiovideopro.net/manfrotto-develops-digital-director-dslr-kit/

Just a reminder


Just a reminder

Thursday's Tech-Talk Helpin

7PM CDT - 10PM CDT

 LINK: bit.ly/ThurTechTalks

The following 3 HOA events featuring members of the User2User-LIVE!


The following 3 HOA events featuring members of the User2User-LIVE! Community are happening today, Thursday, 14 May, the 133rd day of 2015. There are 232 days remaining in the year.

Love this!

Love this!
and it is soooooo true!
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/scientists-earth-endangered-by-new-strain-of-fact-resistant-humans

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Sure to be of interest to members who use the Chrome browser

Sure to be of interest to members who use the Chrome browser
http://www.androidme.co.uk/2015/05/google-to-only-allow-chrome-extensions.html

One more bandwidth test site

One more bandwidth test site
SpeedOf.ME
http://speedof.me/show.php?img=150513105924-81596.png

SHOAE QUESTIONS:

SHOAE QUESTIONS:
1) Anyone else having trouble getting Comment Tracker (green "double bubble") to load? I had to go out and come in again several times to get it to work; same with the Hangout Toolbox (I haven't even tried the new HO Toolbox: anyone tried that, yet? Experiences? Who has it?).

2) With the Comment Tracker (green "double bubble"), I don't see the symbol we're supposed to click on that loads the comments next to the Youtube portion any longer (I used to see it there and click on it so those comments would load, same as for the G+ Event page; now I only see those "refresh" arrows next to the G+ comments when I put in the Source. Ideas? I didn't have any comments from participants today or last time from Youtube, but if I had, I bet I wouldn't have seen them. True?

3) Then, something crashed my computer and glitched me out of the rest of my HOA today with about 10 minutes left. Bummer. I use Apache Open Office and it also conked out, so I de-installed that an re-installed it. Maybe that will fix it. That has happened before (Open Office got buggy last fall and kept crashing my computer). The computer got the BSD and said "System Thread Error." So helpful, that message.

Thanks, Andrew Hatchett , Michael Daniels , Lon McClure , Terry Leigh Britton, Rayne Dowell, Sheila Strover , Sheila Hensley  others.

Collections


Collections
Let's have sort of a round table tonight and talk about Google + Collections.
come join me bit.ly/NightlyChats

Hanging out for awhile till about 9pm Eastern

Welcome John Chvatal !


Welcome John Chvatal !

Hello World

Hello World,

We hope you’re as as excited as we are! Starting today,we’re giving users the ability to access our Help Center without navigating away from the application! (If you click on a post > three dot menu in the top right > Help & Feedback). 

Once a user visits the help content within the app, it will rank and surface articles based on their popularity. In addition, depending on where the users open the help menu, they will be served content relevant to that feature.  (E.g. when a user opens help while looking at a community, it will surface the most popular community related help content).

Best,
Claire & the Google+ Team

Member Hosted HOA.

Member Hosted HOA.
_I forgot to mention to Andrew Hatchett about the HOA for today. _

One aspect of fine art and an artists business is doing commissions. Today's topic on commissions, walks through a special order to bring a dream to life as fine art.

Originally shared by Longwell Art

This week we delve further into a the commission process that a lot of artists try avoid.  This time we will be doing things a bit more challenging, that of using a Dream as the reference to design and complete a painting.

May 13, 2015
4 pm Central Time
5 pm Eastern Time
3 pm Mountain Time
2 pm Pacific Time
10 pm London Time

Youtube viewers: https://goo.gl/PJJE0Q
On Longwell Art Website: http://longwellart.com/?p=712

This Week #WhaTheArt host Tim Longwell   of Longwell Art  will welcome Rayne Dowell  to discuss the dream she would like to have painted.
After Rayne Dowell  discusses her commission for a painting, #WhaTheArt  will welcome back Zara Altair  as she discusses her finished commissioned painting.
Be sure to mark you calendar and join us for this in depth art HOA

* For those who have asked*

* For those who have asked*
The audio is crap!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LLfGRSJMck

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The following 5 HOA events featuring members of the User2User-LIVE!

The following 5 HOA events featuring members of the User2User-LIVE! Community are happening today, Wednesday, 13 May, the 132nd day of 2015. There are 233 days remaining in the year.

[For some reason Google isn't allowing me to add photos, links, etc to posts!]

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Welcome +Kai-Ashley Clifford


Welcome +Kai-Ashley Clifford

I am creating a video but I thought if anyone wanted to come in and chat for awhile.


I am creating a video but I thought if anyone wanted to come in and chat for awhile.... well.... come on in. Till about 9pm eastern
bit.ly/NightlyChats
Thought I'd share in case anyone isn't aware. Am update on Chrome Version  42.0.2311.152 m

Error Message: We are trying to create our Death Chicks event for Thursday and are receiving this error message:

Error Message:  We are trying to create our Death Chicks event for Thursday and are receiving this error message:
"Oops, there was an error creating your event.  Please try again later."

Any ideas?

CORRECTION TO POST

CORRECTION TO POST

On May 2nd I posted about the new $169 Asus C201 Chromebook (https://plus.google.com/u/0/101486004679658584691/posts/WKt69FksZj1).

I took that information from a post made on May 1, 2015 by Justin Diaz (http://www.androidheadlines.com/2015/05/asus-launches-their-rockchip-powered-c201-chromebook-with-up-to-13-hours-of-battery-life.html).

The information about inclusion of an Ethnert port and a USB 3.0 port have since proved to be in error and neither are included in the production models of the Asus C201.

Just a reminder...

Just a reminder...
Tuesday’s at Noon Mountain (that is 2 pm Eastern, 1 pm Central and 11 am Pacific)
http://kraaftshaak.com/live/

The following 4 HOA events featuring members of the User2User-LIVE!


The following 4 HOA events featuring members of the User2User-LIVE! Community are happening today, Tuesday, 12 May, the 131st day of 2015. There are 234 days remaining in the year.

Monday, May 11, 2015

Hi all, is anyone awake & able to help me trouble - shoot my mic issues?

Hi all, is anyone awake & able to help me trouble - shoot my mic issues? I did a tech check in to prepare for my HOA tomorrow on my new Asus Chromebook (thanks Andrew Hatchett​ for the suggestion!). It was strange though that I couldn't get my external mic working.

Any thoughts ***​, Michael Daniels​, John Brown​, any other night owls out there?

Hey, all -- sorry about the confusion!

Hey, all -- sorry about the confusion!

This is another geeky flute video, so be forewarned. :-)

One of my pet peeves is the tendency for flute players to use vibrato like ketchup on everything...which, yes, covers up the flavor of the music. Blech. 

This is one of my favorite exercises for dealing with this issue, as well as working on dynamics, air control, and lip flexibility.

This will be a very interesting show for all of us who regularly get stressed by the overload of what we try to do

This will be a very interesting show for all of us who regularly get stressed by the overload of what we try to do
Lawrence Gold will give you a tool which really works to release tensions. Try it out!
#thewisdomfactory   #somatics   #stressrelease   #thepowerofrelationship  

Originally shared by The Wisdom Factory

Everybody talk about fitness, exercising, beauty and physical health. The body seems to be important to us - and fashionable. We think we are taking care of it - by dressing it in constrictive clothes or by making it “work out” with exercises which our mind believes that they are good for us. We more often than not overstep our body’s needs and desires by following our belief system instead of learning to sense into it to find out what it really wants us to do. Well, we end up with all sorts of physical dysfunctions, from back pain to headaches and even worse manifestations of it’s alarm signals.

Our mind is very powerful and is constantly reigning over our bodies. Why not use this power to actually restore the state of ease and well being to our bodies? Makes sense, doesn’t it? 
Lawrence Gold, a trainer in SOMATIC EDUCATION after Thomas Hanna has created practices to do exactly this. You might expect gymnastics or something alike, when you hear this term. Not at all. Somatics is not just something connected with the BODY, but…

In our show Lawrence will lead you through one of the processes he has created to alter the body conditions, like pain or feeling unwell, as well as emotional states, like stress, anxiety, depression, going as far as to help manifest your desires (In a practice called “The Wish Fulfilling Gem”). We will talk about the background of these practices, why they work - and they DO WORK, as we could see from our own experience - and what potential they have to create a big impact on people and therefore create well being and peace in the world.
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Interested? Then please answer YES to the question of whether you will attend. Then you get a reminder, and you can always watch the video recording by clicking on the corresponding entry in your Google Calendar.
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Please forward the invitation to your friends interested in personal development and how to ged rid of pain and similar states of the body-mind.
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About Lawrence Gold 
Lawrence Gold began to explore the interrelation of spiritual practice and personal development around 1968, at age 16, with himself as the laboratory. He has explored many different approaches to different aspects of the one-being, what we may call "self" or "body", the inner and outer of our existence that constitute "soma", the incarnated self. 
Here his "lineage flowchart" 

His investigations led to the development of very powerful and very accessible "consciousness integration procedures" called, The TetraSeed Modulations, for getting unstuck from habitual conditioning and for awakening to the "ground" of being that underlies and is the substance of ordinary existence. He teaches those procedures in-person, one-on-one, and on-line, to groups. You can follow one of his sessions and practice along here:

He maintains a private practice of clinical somatic education (to end chronic pain conditions) in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and on-line, worldwide.


About your hosts:
Mark Davenport    is an American Midwesterner, frequent visitor to and now resident in Italy.  Degrees in English Literature and Secondary Education preceded a Masters degree in Italian Literature from the University of Wisconsin.  Years of teaching at secondary and university levels were followed by ever more “human interest” years as a certified drug and alcohol counselor, then to more mellow years in retail, culminating in more years as a “full time” retired Floridian before coming out into life again in Italy with years of philosophical, psychological and spiritual study supporting my passion to bring all that “head” knowledge to a practical emotional, physical and behavioral level where true transformation out from the decades of half-life so many of us experience.

ABOUT Heidi ( Adelheid Hörnlein  ) 
A native German and living in Italy for the past 30 years. I have an MA in communication science, was a professional singer, voice teacher, voice therapist before I was licensed in Gestalt Counseling and Transformative Coaching (Approach: ‘Feminine Power’ and related). I am also licensed as transformative leader. I am holding seminars and courses, live and online. My passion is 1:1 coaching for whatever difficulties people encounter in life, especially regarding relationships, but not only. If you are inspired to do so, please ask for a free discovery session by connecting with me on G+ or via our website: http://ThePowerOfRelationship.Com
 
#thewisdomfactory   #body   #somatics   #release   #technology   #wisdom   #thepowerofrelationship   #integral   #development   #evolutionofconsciousness     #meditation

The following may be of interest to members of the community.

The following may be of interest to members of the community.

Originally shared by Mark Timberlake

Marketing Your Udemy Course With Hangouts On Air

In this hangout, we discussed how you can use Hangouts On Air to market a Udemy course.

Repurposing hangouts is a powerful way to create lots of content for your marketing and also to engage people with your community if you have one.

We also discussed how hangouts can help you develop confidence in front of the camera!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZU7ezybl9E

Just a friendly reminder...

Just a friendly reminder...
(8 am Pacific, 9 am Mountain,10 am Central, 11 am Eastern) 
https://kraaftshaak.com/watch-now/monday-meanderings/

The following 6 HOA events featuring members of the User2User-LIVE!


The following 6 HOA events featuring members of the User2User-LIVE! Community are happening today, Monday, 11 May, the 130th day of 2015. There are 235 days remaining in the year.

Saturday, May 9, 2015

Hanging out in the office.


Hanging out in the office.
I'd rather chat than work.
Come on in 
Click this Link:
http://bit.ly/NightlyChats

I'm having trouble loading the Comment Tracker App.

I'm having trouble loading the Comment Tracker App. It has worked valiantly for weeks, but does not want to accommodate me in my own OR OTHER'S hangouts. 

Can anyone give me a clue?

I've restarted my Windows 7...

I've reopened Chrome, which is up to date...

Tried to load the App from a hangout on air from various inside link options...

Just tells me, "There was an error loading your app!"
"This app did not load because there appears to b something wrong with it."

Anyone, please advise. Thank you in advance.

Roland

Audition video for Blue Juice Variety Show!


Audition video for Blue Juice Variety Show!

:)

The following 2 HOA events featuring members of the User2User-LIVE!


The following 2 HOA events featuring members of the User2User-LIVE! Community are happening today, Saturday, 9 May, the 128th day of 2015. There are 237 days remaining in the year.

Welcome Aw Shucks Bail Bonds!


Welcome Aw Shucks Bail Bonds!

Friday, May 8, 2015

CIRCLE SHARING BITES THE DUST!

CIRCLE SHARING BITES THE DUST!
Well - that didn't take long!

Originally shared by John R. Ellis

Circle Sharing has been Officially discontinued

If you look at your Circles, you will see that the Share icon is now missing - just Edit and Delete remain.  As of yesterday, G+ discontinued this feature - no reason given so far.  Probably won't have a major impact on Communities or Moderation, but it will be harder for Owner/Mods to share circles with each other to invite those circles to similar or cross-promoted Communities, or to give members an easy way to Follow curated circles of people.

May affect a few Communities (and Pages) whose entire premise was sharing circles, too.  

#circleshare

Hi Everyone, it was an honor for me to wake up this morning and find I had been accepted into this community.

Hi Everyone, it was an honor for me to wake up this morning and find I had been accepted into this community.

I have been on Google+ for about five months now and have been welcomed with open arms. I have connected with quite a few people that have not only been helpful in my beginning to learn the ropes, but also seem eager to see me find my niche and succeed. Every one of those people is a member of this community, therefore my decision to be a part of a community whose only agenda is to help people was a no brainer.

I have learned so much from members here already, but also realize in the ever expanding Googleverse there will always be new things and a learning curve. I do hope to make HOA's a part of my plan soon and know there is no better group of combined minds then right here in the User2User Community. I hope to learn much from you all and look forward to one day being able to pay it forward to the next generation of newbies like myself.

Just a reminder...

Just a reminder...
9AM PDT - 10AM MDT - 11AM CDT - NOON EDT
http://business-hangouts.com/office-hours/

The following 6 HOA events featuring members of the User2User-LIVE!


The following 6 HOA events featuring members of the User2User-LIVE! Community are happening today, Friday, 8 May, the 127th day of 2015. There are 238 days remaining in the year.

Welcome Bill Graham!


Welcome Bill Graham!

Thursday, May 7, 2015

New Problem: When I am logged in as my G+ profile everything is loading slow and i mean slow.

New Problem:  When I am logged in as my G+ profile everything is loading slow and i mean slow. I get the blue spinning ball next to my curser etc.

 I disabled most of my extensions, had my computer guy do a remote scan of my computer and his advice is to start a new profile  NOT!!!  

I was on a Hangout Video Call the other day doing a slide share and the other person was saying that my computer was so slow and things were not loading.  I have a really fast computer!

 Anyone else ever have an issue with their Google profile creating these kinds of problems of slow loading.

Hanging out chatting today. What do you want to talk about?


Hanging out chatting  today.  What do you want to talk about?
Come on in 12:50pm Eastern to whenever 
Come on in 
Click this Link:
http://bit.ly/NightlyChats

I have a webinar for a number of clients happening today at 4 PM. I normally use GoToMeeting. Works well. I've really wanted to force myself to learn and use HaA because I use Google Apps all the time for everything else. In fact my webinar is about using Google Drive. 

Here is my dilemma. 

I created an HoA event and invited a number of clients. 

1. Yet when I do a few practice rounds (test) it seems confusing for the end user. 

2. I had an employee try it out. I clicked to start the Broadcast and waited for him to join. He could not join until I started recording. 

3. Also it wanted me to invite people to join, when I already did this in my initial invitation. These seemed confusing to end user.

4. When my employee final did see me (once I went "on air) he said there was a real delay when viewing my screen. I had just tested GoToMeeting a few minutes before this and the screen share was perfect. Most of the time I've tried HOA, there is a delay for sharing a screen. I've done several test with a hardwired Internet connect and there is still a delay. If someone pops into an HoA, they are delayed and not seeing me live.

So I guess my question is...1) how can I make sure it is easy for people to join my meeting on Thursday when it is time and 2) How can I make sure there is no delay in showing my screen. 3) How do folks joining the call show their faces (video). 4) When creating the time, for a 45 minute webinar, it creates a 4 hour and 45 minute duration. I've tried a dozen times to make the webinar 45 minutes.

This may be of interest to some members of the community.


This may be of interest to some members of the community.

Originally shared by Laszlo Bock

Delighted and honored to share a few things I’ve learned about improving work with some of the most important workers there are – educators! Catch me at Google’s Education On Air conference tomorrow at 8:25am PDT for a quick session on how educators can put some of the #workrules I’ve shared into practice. If you’re interested in this or any of the other great sessions, you can register and watch here (it’s free): https://goo.gl/9T3oi0

In the meantime, here are a few more thoughts about how educators can make their workplaces rule: http://goo.gl/HYbUiO #workrules