#protips

#protips  

via Ranganayaki Srinivas 

Originally shared by John Skeats

What would make Google+ better for YOU?

Almost everyone has ideas about how to improve Google+. You might have found something that feels clumsy to you or does not work the way you think if should. Perhaps you have an idea for a small enhancement that would improve your Google+ experience. Or maybe you have a big idea for expanding Google+ into a whole new area. 

Whatever it is, Google wants to know! That is why they included "Send feedback" in Google+: to give you a way to share your ideas directly with the Google+ team.

You can access "Send feedback" in any of the following ways:
-- Click the gear icon at the top of your Stream and select "Send feedback."
-- Click the "Send feedback" link at the bottom of the "About" section on the left side of a community page.
-- Type "@"(without the quotation marks) outside of a text-entry field on any Google+ page. 

Some important things to keep in mind when submitting your ideas:
-- Just saying you do not like something is not a big help. Suggest what you would do to improve it or at least explain why you do not like it.
-- It generally helps to describe an example of how a problem occurs or how a new function would be used.
-- Positive feedback helps because it lets the Google+ team know when they did something right.
-- It is best to send your feedback from the page you would like to see changed because "Send feedback" takes a screenshot and lets you highlight the affected part. (Note that it also lets you black out any information you consider personal or private.)
-- It is generally better to submit multiple feedbacks with one idea each rather than sending a whole list so individual ideas do not get lost.
-- Do not hold off because you are sure other people have suggested the same thing. The number of people suggesting a change helps the team understand how important it is.

We have already seen proof that Google listens to users. The Google+ team has delivered many improvements to Google+ that were tied directly to user feedback. On the other hand, we have to remember that Google has a vision for what Google+ will become and some things that people might request will not fit into that vision. Henry Ford made an excellent point about the relationship between a vision and user requests when he said: "“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”

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