How To Activate and Promote Your Google Buzz

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How to Activate
and Promote Your
Google Buzz
Sid Macatol
Marvin Macatol - How to Activate and Promote Your Google Buzz 15-Dec 2010
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What is Google Buzz?
Think of Google Buzz as

Google’s low profile version
of Facebook and Twitter
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It doesn’t cost anything to

have another social media
network, as you’ll see
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Where do we see it?
It has no distinct URL
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Where do we see it?
But it’s a feature of your

Gmail, as you would see
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Open your Gmail Account
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Open a New Tab
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Go to google.com/buzz
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I suggest you watch the video
Scroll down to study the other 10
features of Google Buzz
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Click on ‘Try Google Buzz’
Google will bring you back to 12
the Gmail Dashboard
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But note the new Buzz icon
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Click Settings.
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Click on Buzz
Maintain these settings in the 16
meantime
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Click View and Edit
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Add Picasa
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Add Posted via buzz@gmail
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You can add more

posting options
later, ok?
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Let’s make do with

Picasa and
buzz@gmail at this
time
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Click ‘Next step’
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Save your profile
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Click Google Buzz icon
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Click ‘Okay’
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Click the white space
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Type something
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Click ‘Insert Link’
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Type a Link
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Click Add Link
Click any photo from the link 31
you added to your post
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Click “Post”
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There’s your first Buzz post
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Click ‘Compose Mail’
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Type buzz@gmail.com
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We added
buzz@gmail for
posting earlier,
remember?
Type your message at the 37
Subject line
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No, NOT in the Body, ok?
✖
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At the Subject Line
✖
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I mean this . . .
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Click ‘Send’
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There’s your post in Buzz
It’s from the email you sent to 43
buzz@gmail.com
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Remember Picasa?
We added it too,
right?
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Type picasaweb.google.com
on your browser
Since you’re logged on to
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Google, Picasa assumes it’s

you tyring to get in
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Just type your password
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Click Sign in
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Click ‘Upload’
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Create a new album
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Provide a Title
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Click Continue
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Click ‘Browse’
Pick a photo from your 54
computer
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The photo in the sample

is a downloaded copy of
a photo from Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/
24662369@N07/4386822005#/
photos/gsfc/4386822005/
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On the side I wish to

demonstrate here how
Picasa recognizes the
photo and collects the
credits for the photo
Click Open (Mac) or OK 57
(Windows)
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Start Upload
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There’s the photo
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There’s the credit
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There it is in your Buzz
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But who’s gonna

read your Buzz
posts?
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This is where
Buzz promotion
comes in
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Click on your name
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Click ‘Google Profile’
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Click ‘Add more info . . .’
Put as much information here 67
as you can
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Add a photo
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Upload a picture
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Crop the photo well
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Click ‘Apply Changes’
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Scroll down
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Fill up the other blanks
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Fill up Short bio, etc.
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Add URLs here
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Click Add
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Click this button
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Click ‘Save Changes’
You’re now eligible to be 79
featured in Google search
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Take note of this link
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Zooming in for a better view
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That is your profile URL
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Zooming in for better view
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Copy and paste

your profile URL
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You will be using it

a lot to promote
your Google Buzz
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Click ‘Compose mail’
Tell your friends about your 87
Google Profile URL
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Click ‘Send’
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Your friend receives the mail
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He will click on the link
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Your friend sees your profile
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He will click “Follow”
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He can also ‘Block’ you
When he follows you, this is 94
what your freiend sees
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This is what you see
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Click it
It’s a good idea to follow your 97
followers as well
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Click ‘Done’
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Your profile gets updated
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Click Refresh
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Scroll down
You see here the Buzz from 102
people you follow
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Add your URL to

your email
signature
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Click ‘Settings’
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Scroll down
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Click this button
Invite your contacts to follow 107
you in Google Buzz here
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Scroll down
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Click ‘Save Changes’
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Click ‘Compose mail’
Your email now automatically 111
contains your invitation
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In time, you will

have many
followers
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Thanks for watching the slides.
Polite comments are welcome at

http://virtualsidekick.blogspot.com
You may follow me at:

http://www.google.com/profiles/sid.macatol
Dream a life!
Live your dreams!
Sid Macatol

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1

What is Google Buzz?

Think of Google Buzz as

It doesn’t cost anything to

Where do we see it?

It has no distinct URL

Where do we see it?

But it’s a feature of your

Open your Gmail Account

Open a New Tab

I suggest you watch the video

features of Google Buzz

Click on ‘Try Google Buzz’

the Gmail Dashboard

But note the new Buzz icon

Click View and Edit

Add Posted via buzz@gmail

You can add more

Let’s make do with

Click ‘Next step’

Save your profile

Click Google Buzz icon

Click the white space

Click ‘Insert Link’

Click Add Link

you added to your post

There’s your first Buzz post

Click ‘Compose Mail’

No, NOT in the Body, ok?

At the Subject Line

There’s your post in Buzz

Google, Picasa assumes it’s

Just type your password

Create a new album

The photo in the sample

On the side I wish to

There’s the photo

There’s the credit

There it is in your Buzz

But who’s gonna

Click on your name

Click ‘Google Profile’

Click ‘Add more info . . .’

Crop the photo well

Click ‘Apply Changes’

Fill up the other blanks

Fill up Short bio, etc.

Add URLs here

Click this button

Click ‘Save Changes’

featured in Google search

Take note of this link

Zooming in for a better view

That is your profile URL

Zooming in for better view

Copy and paste

You will be using it

Click ‘Compose mail’

Google Profile URL

Your friend receives the mail

He will click on the link

Your friend sees your profile

He will click “Follow”