Good advice from Fraser Cain on making the most of the newly released notifications option.

Good advice from Fraser Cain on making the most of the newly released notifications option. 

#protips  

via Vic Gundotra 

Originally shared by Fraser Cain

Are You Notification Worthy?

Google+ just rolled out one of the most disruptive features I think I've seen: the ability to put people into special circles so that every time they post, you'll get a notification. Obviously, you're only going to be able to put a couple of people into those circles before your notification bar becomes completely overwhelming.

Google+ just became the opposite of Twitter and Facebook, and more like RSS

On Twitter and Facebook, there's so many posts streaming down, so quickly, the only way to compete is to post... a lot. That's because a fraction of your audience is ever going to see it. This rising posting has become an arms race - you need to post more often to get any traction with your audience.

This is now a hybrid between a Twitter-like news stream and an RSS reader where you specifically subscribe to people.

I wouldn't be surprised if Google releases the long-requested write API now.

You want to be in a Notification Circle

If you want your circlers to see everything you're posting, you'll really want to get put into a notification circle. But if you post too often, you're going to get taken out of that notification circle as people get overwhelmed.

You'll need to make every post count.

This should increase quality over quantity

If people want to get the maximum reach, they'll need to post fewer times here on G+, but with much higher quality; probably just a couple of fantastic posts a day... at most.

You need to make your posts so good people will be willing to get notified about them all. You need to cut out all the fluff and be deeply aware of what your stream would look like to someone getting notified every time you post.

Are you notification worthy?  
Seinfeld: Spongeworthy

Put me in a notification circle. :-)

If you think my posts are interesting enough, put me in a Notification Circle. Create a new circle, if you don't have one yet. Label it something like "Notification Worthy*, and the turn the slider up to Notification. I promise I'll behave.

P.S. This ability to notify people through email seems crazy. I haven't gotten spammed yet, but I'll be turning that off right away if I get barraged by emails from Google+. Not cool.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57498694-93/google-debuts-sliders-to-help-users-de-clog-their-streams/

Comments

  1. Agreed., this is fantastic advice from Mr Cain. Hopefully some folks find me worthy enough of such a high honor.

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  2. Yes, agreed. I know just of one person who has put me in their notification circle, and I have already become somewhat more disciplined and deliberate with what I post. If this is indeed likely to increase quality over quantity, it would be great...

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  3. Add one more to that Lena Levin - don't want to miss out on any of your lovely paintings ;-)

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