If you or someone you know got a new Chromebook for Christmas - This will be of interest.

If you or someone you know got a new Chromebook for Christmas - This will be of interest.
https://chromeunboxed.com/got-a-new-chromebook-10-things-you-need-to-know-video/

Just a quick Thank You to Bill Graham for his suggestion to improve navigation between the three new User2User-LIVE!

Just a quick Thank You to Bill Graham for his suggestion to improve navigation between the three new User2User-LIVE! blogs.

Each blog now contains links to the morning and evening chats, as well as to all User2User blogs.

In case you missed it.

In case you missed it... My apologies, this was uploaded to YouTube and posted in the new User2User Video Vault site on Blogger but I forgot to post it here.
https://youtu.be/lUFyV5-2OHI

How does one set up a completely private blog so it never shows in any search engine and membership is by invite...

How does one set up a completely private blog so it never shows in any search engine and membership is by invite only and people must sign in to even see the contents even if they have the link?

Peggy K are you listening? :)

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Just in case you didn't know... Google reCAPTCHA version 3 has been released

Just in case you didn't know... Google reCAPTCHA version 3 has been released
https://blogaid.net/contact-form-7-and-google-recaptcha-v3-how-to-integrate-and-fix-errors/

Latest on Re-Homing ...

Latest on Re-Homing ...
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You've wanted to save your G+ Community/Collection...

You've wanted to save your G+ Community/Collection...
Well, from what people I trust are saying, this looks like it works!


Originally shared by Romain Vialard

I've updated the G+ migration tool to let people add and remove +1s on posts.
Here's a live example:
https://apps-script-community-archive.firebaseapp.com/

You need to sign-in first, to link the +1 to your Google account when recorded in the database.
This is just an example to show that this kind of G+ data export could be used as a real, live copy of G+ and not just a "read-only" archive.

Just a quick update on plans after April 2019

Just a quick update on plans after April 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXJ5yHYCt-0&feature=share

Just FYI...

Just FYI...
My apologies for not making it on earlier tonight. Full stomach=Overnapped. :)

I'll be tied up with family stuff Fri&Sat so won't be on much. Hope all have a great weekend!

Just a reminder for Zoom Users...

Just a reminder for Zoom Users...
Zoom will be holding their monthly 'Ask Me Anything' webinar today at 2:30 PM Eastern

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*Just FYI... ;)

*Just FYI... ;)

What is your primary method of accessing the User2User-LIVE! community?

What is your primary method of accessing the User2User-LIVE! community?

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Thanks Andrew Hatchett for the help with getting the Blogger commenting and [Accepting] sorted and working for me.

Thanks Andrew Hatchett for the help with getting the Blogger commenting and [Accepting] sorted and working for me.
On that note, I decided to start another blog under my own name (whether a good thing or not!?) and check out more of what Blogger has to offer, as one of your 'students' ...

Building a Blogger Reading List

Building a Blogger Reading List
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BntXG-d8cYo&feature=share

Season's greetings to all my family and friends.

Season's greetings to all my family and friends. I hope you all have a great Christmas with family and friends. Also hope you all have a great New Years also. This will be the last Christmas i'll be able to post in with G+ going away but i want to say it's been a great ride and i'm thankful for all the friends i've made in g+ and wish everyone the best of times in the future.

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Just a little tech humor

Just a little tech humor

More from Romain Vialard on the G+ Migration tool.

More from Romain Vialard on the G+ Migration tool.

Originally shared by Romain Vialard

I've updated the G+ migration tool to display all posts & comments (not just previews), very similar to the behaviour in G+.
Here are 2 live examples:
https://apps-script-community-archive.firebaseapp.com/
https://romainvialard-public.firebaseapp.com/

Other updates:
- The migration script has been updated to migrate more content in less time
- You receive an email at the end of the migration with the number of posts retrieved
- In the web app, a notification is displayed when you reach the bottom of the page and it starts to load more posts.

If you want to try the tool to migrate content out of G+, here's the tutorial:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UGhxaN5AiRXXL0Ki0DlVWLYJo_YYiEYhM2w1caRhljU/edit#

If you would like to contribute, here's the GitHub project:
https://github.com/RomainVialard/Google-Plus-Community-Migrator

I think I will experiment with the free version of the exporter into Blogger.

I think I will experiment with the free version of the exporter into Blogger. Just because I have to keep everything and can't throw anything away it seems.

Originally shared by Lars Fosdal

First post in a series, on how to capture and export your Google+ content.
An upcoming post will deal with how to transform and import that content onto a new platform.

Time is ticking and the deadline for exporting is looming closer every day. The current word is that some of the G+ APIs will disappear already at the end of January, while the service itself will shut down at end of March.

https://larsfosdal.blog/2018/12/22/moving-away-from-google/

https://larsfosdal.blog/2018/12/22/moving-away-from-google/

L3M Challenge Update.

L3M Challenge Update.
My thanks to all who are participating.

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Only 93 more watch hours needed!

Want to save your G+ content- Check this out!

Want to save your G+ content- Check this out!

Romain Vialard is the guy who brought us that great Community Meter App that was so useful some years ago for getting community stats..

Originally shared by Romain Vialard

Don't want to lose the valuable content you have created in Google+?
Here's a tutorial to export all data from a G+ community and display it via Firebase.
Example with the Google Apps Script community:
https://apps-script-community-archive.firebaseapp.com/

If you are not satisfied by the exports available via Google Takeout, don't hesitate to try this solution - it should take you 15 min to trigger the export and you don't need to install anything on your computer. Plus it's free.

Note that this method uses the Google+ API, which will start failing as soon as January 28, 2019. So I would advise to try to export your data before this date.

Also note that you can use this tutorial to export all your posts - it is not specifically restricted to a community. Here's an example with my own profile:
https://romainvialard-public.firebaseapp.com/

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More than you ever wanted to know about the G+ API Shutdown.

More than you ever wanted to know about the G+ API Shutdown.
Clue: It ain't pretty!

*"This will be a progressive shutdown beginning in late January, with web and mobile app integrations exhibiting intermittent failures as early as January 28, 2019."*

https://developers.google.com/+/
https://developers.google.com/+/

Those interested in the G+ Migration will find this of interest

Those interested in the G+ Migration will find this of interest


Originally shared by Gideon Rosenblatt

Request for Clarifications from Google on the Google+ Shutdown

I have developed a backchannel for getting feedback to the Google+ development team and am working with an informal team of volunteers to improve the flow of communications on Google+ shutdown priorities. This is the first public post regarding that process.

Our first priority -- and the focus of this post -- is getting clarification on a number of open issues having to do with the shutdown. Next up will be a focus on specific feature requests to improve Takeout and the resulting exported Google+ data. After that, we will turn to specific bugs that people are experiencing with Google+ Takeout data.

Your Feedback:
The Google Doc document linked to at the bottom of this post outlines a number of open questions for Google on the Google+ shutdown process as well as Google+ Takeout data. Please review it. If, after reading it, you have additional questions that you believe would benefit the broader Google+ community, please feel free to add that in a comment here.

To help us assess priorities, please plus others' comments that you believe are important.

I will be strictly moderating comments to keep the feedback on topic. To help us with this process, please keep your feedback pragmatic and focused on just the most important issues. The Google+ team is no doubt overwhelmed balancing many priorities right now, so we increase the odds of fixing things if we try to stay focused on what matters most. In describing your issue, please be concise and clear with your description (try to use the bullets in the document below as a model format). This will make it easier for us to incorporate your feedback for the Google+ team.

Sharing this post:
If you decide to share this post, (which I encourage you to do to help get the word out) please disable comments on your share and direct people back to this original post for their comments. It's just too much work to monitor and track feedback on lots and lots of different shares of this post. We will also have a few people sharing this post on a handful of communities and monitoring and incorporating comments from there.

Limitations:
To be clear, there is no guarantee that Google will be able to resolve all the issues that this feedback process identifies. With that said, I have reason to believe that the team is listening and that this informal feedback process is a worthwhile expenditure of energy.

It takes a community...
This process has taken, and will continue to take, a bunch of work by me and people like Julian Bond, Luc Jallois, Michael K Johnson, John Lewis, Edward Morbius, Bernhard Suter, and Filip H.F. Slagter. If you’re interested in helping, please let us know. We are particularly interested in people who have spent time digging into the Takeout data, but could also just use help getting the word out as we gather input from Google+ users.

The Document:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SgtZFp2qUgHF0T4GG4n_ukJ70wg0lON_HqWbiYR1nns/edit?usp=sharing

L3M Challenge Update.

L3M Challenge Update.
My thanks to all who are participating.

Presently at 3,870 (a net gain of 346 hours)
Only 130 more watch hours needed!

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https://plus.google.com/u/0/101486004679658584691/posts/aomuaCFTRCN

https://plus.google.com/u/0/101486004679658584691/posts/aomuaCFTRCN

Just a reminder... all members interested in how we proceed as a community are urged to participate as this will help determine where we go from here - Thanks.

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For those who may not have seen it yet... Another sandbox we can play in!

For those who may not have seen it yet... Another sandbox we can play in!

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Digital Colorist: Andrew Hatchett

If you are a Zoom User... Zoom released a new update this morning

If you are a Zoom User... Zoom released a new update this morning
December 16, 2018 4.1.35374.1217
Download Type: Manual
Download here: Download Center

New and Enhanced Features

User Features
Waiting Room for External Participants
Added an option where signed in users on an account are automatically admitted into the meeting. Users who are not signed in or external to the account will be put into the waiting room.
Resolved Issues

Minor Bug Fixes

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ATTN: All Members!

ATTN: All Members!
When this community closes in April 2019, which of these two platforms would you like to see it moved to?

The kindness of a vote would be appreciated.
Note: Comments have been turned off.

L3M Challenge Update.

L3M Challenge Update.
My thanks to all who are participating.

Presently at 3,822 (a net gain of 298 hours)
Only 178 more watch hours needed!

L3M Challenge Update.

L3M Challenge Update.
Presently at 3,788 (a net gain of 265 hours)

Only 211 more watch hours needed!

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Just had a truly frightening thought...

Just had a truly frightening thought...

Once Communities/Collections are gone it will be a truly Herculean task to clean up my bookmarks as a LOT of them will simply show a 404 error when clicked!

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Do you have a monetized YouTube Channel? This will be of interest.

Do you have a monetized YouTube Channel? This will be of interest.
https://www.peggyktc.com/2018/12/youtube-partners-assess-whether-your.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FEpZnp+%28Peggy+K%27s+Tips+%26+Tricks+%28YouTube%2C+Google%2B%2C+Blogger+and+more%29%29
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Google announces another closing

Google announces another closing
https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2018/12/google-fusion-tables-to-be-shut-down-on.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FzRSig+%28G+Suite+Update+Alerts%29

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L3M Challenge Update.

L3M Challenge Update.
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Only 299 more watch hours needed!

Newsflash! G+ ending earlier than previously announced!

Newsflash! G+ ending earlier than previously announced!
https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/expediting-changes-google-plus/
https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/expediting-changes-google-plus/

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Want to add a bit of background music to your Blogger Blog?

Want to add a bit of background music to your Blogger Blog?
Here's how
https://blogtimenow.com/internet-tips-tricks/add-background-music-sound-blogger-blog/
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Do you use Google and Wordpress? This may be of interest.

Do you use Google and Wordpress? This may be of interest.
https://sitekit.withgoogle.com/
https://sitekit.withgoogle.com/

I'm just starting out by using BeLive.tv feeding into Twitch.

I'm just starting out by using BeLive.tv feeding into Twitch. Now, I don't know a great deal about Twitch, so wondering if there are others here who may be 'experts' and know a bit about it, or like me and just discovering what it's about?

It's the Talk Show and Chat categories that I'm going to investigate ... I'm not into gaming! Watched too many hours of my teenage boys with Nintendo many years ago!

I would like to connect with you in Twitch, if there are those of my friends interested in doing that ... ta!

If you missed today's Wordcamp 2018 live streams, they are available on YouTube...

If you missed today's Wordcamp 2018 live streams, they are available on YouTube...
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEbAT5rUoDCrtv5KNqMDMZQ
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Interested in Wordpress.. Watch this.

Interested in Wordpress.. Watch this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJMW4oLQtxE&feature=share

Great Plan for moving Communities...

Great Plan for moving Communities...

Originally shared by Eric Bright

Update 8 on the migration 2018-10-30:

Time to move on

Our MeWe Philosophy Group, linked below, is buzzing with activity, intelligent conversations, and probing posts and comments. It seems that most participants have already got used to the user interface and can comfortably navigate the web site and effectively use its many features.

At this time, a MeWe group appears be the one we will move to once G+ is no more. Because of that, I am going to lay down the roadmap to the final migration in August 2019.

Roadmap to the final migration to MeWe

On Jan 01, 2019
1- I will switch the ‘Join’ community membership setting to ‘Ask to join’ state from Jan 01, 2019 forward. New members will need to contact me directly if they need to join this G+ community.

2- New members will also be asked to acknowledge the fact that Google Plus will be shut down in August 2019 (using a template comment). If they don’t get back to me in 24 hours, I will remove them from the G+ community.

3- I will start asking the authors of new posts to kindly post their material in our MeWe Philosophy Group instead, if they can, before approving their posts. I will use a fixed templated for the text of that message.

On Apr 01 2019
1- I will not accept any new G+ community members here anymore from April 01, 2019 forward. All new members will be asked to join our MeWe Philosophy Group.

2- Posts that are approved in this G+ community will be given one week to be cross-posted into our new MeWe Philosophy Group. If they are not cross-posted after the grace period is passed, then they will be deleted, regardless of any criterion. I will leave a template-comment under all new posts to remind the authors of this.

On Jun 01, 2019
1- Posts will be accepted by the current members if and only if they are also cross-posted by the same author in the MeWe Philosophy Group from June 01, 2019 forward.

I will leave a template-comment under new-unapproved posts asking the author to cross-post first, wait for 24 hours for the cross-post to appear in our MeWe Philosophy Group, and then approve the post in G+ if the cross-post is made successfully.

2- All other posts that are not cross-posted after the 24 hours grace period will be rejected regardless of any criterion.

On Jul 01, 2019
No new post will be accepted in the G+ Phil. Community from Jul 01, 2019 forward, regardless of any criterion. The G+ Community will be frozen as is. Only comments can be made by members.

In Aug 2019
Google will shut down Google Plus. By then, the most active members should have been comfortably migrated to MeWe and most important posts should have been archived by their authors and enthusiasts.


Please comment below if you think something needs to be changed and you have good reasons for why.

Thank you!

===================================
Update 7: https://plus.google.com/+EricBright/posts/AExjsHnAmCJ

Update 6: https://plus.google.com/+EricBright/posts/2r9RYux9MYU

Update 5: https://plus.google.com/+EricBright/posts/Xhmn5U89bem

Update 4: https://plus.google.com/+EricBright/posts/iFNk38NM3JS

Update 3: https://plus.google.com/+EricBright/posts/RSPr1wALrkL

Update 2: https://plus.google.com/+EricBright/posts/3rXFxqGYF2f

Update 1: https://plus.google.com/+EricBright/posts/1rz981hqEq9

Objections to diaspora* et. al.: https://plus.google.com/+EricBright/posts/NgqKmJBdCh6

Join the MeWe Philosophy Group: https://mewe.com/join/philosophy1

Find me on MeWe: https://mewe.com/i/eric.bright

#update #MeWe


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AMA on Reddit with Mark Weinstein, the founder of MeWe

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9sq3jf/im_mark_weinstein_founderceo_of_mewe_the/

Free OnLine Tickets to WordCamp US 2018

Free OnLine Tickets to WordCamp US 2018
https://2018.us.wordcamp.org/tickets/

[and yes... I'll be watching!]
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In case you missed it...

In case you missed it...
https://www.blog.google/products/messages/latest-messages-allo-duo-and-hangouts/

https://www.blog.google/products/messages/latest-messages-allo-duo-and-hangouts/

L3M Challenge Update.

L3M Challenge Update.
Presently at 3,583 (a net gain of 59 hours)

Only 417 needed!

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New Chrome version release:

New Chrome version release:
Version 71.0.3578.80

Breaking Wordpress News on WP 5.0

Breaking Wordpress News on WP 5.0
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Apologies to all ~ Down with some stomach bug so won't be online much today.

Apologies to all ~ Down with some stomach bug so won't be online much today.

I got a new update on my android phone for Google Duo.

I got a new update on my android phone for Google Duo. Maybe it will stick around. I hope allo does too but unfortunately for me my family is stuck on facetime with their iphones. i don't understand why more don't use Duo since you can talk with both ios and android. I don't know of anyone who only have friends that use the same type of phone they have i.e. iphones or android.

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Just FYI...

Just FYI...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUrRpGn9nh4&feature=share