{"id":13808,"date":"2012-12-07T23:00:12","date_gmt":"2012-12-08T07:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/?p=13808"},"modified":"2013-01-26T20:37:38","modified_gmt":"2013-01-27T04:37:38","slug":"google-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2012\/12\/07\/google-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Google+ Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"

So Google introduced a new feature in their Google+ social environment: Communities. And that was my cue to jump in as quickly as possible. I understood right away that this was something that Google+ had desperately needed to become a more interactive place for all gmailers, not just a few who wanted something other than Facebook.<\/p>\n

Communities were being created as quickly as people could discover them. I myself signed up for six of them: Trey Ratcliff’s “The Photo Community”, “San Diego Zoo Fans”, “MiceChat” (a Disney blog), “The Official San Diego Photography Community”, “Disney Parks” and “Disney Photography”.<\/p>\n

I commented and posted, and got some immediate feedback from a few people. Not a lot, but it was more interaction than I was seeing before the Communities launched.<\/p>\n

I quickly learned that I needed to adjust the notification settings in the Communities and with my gmail. Within a day my little red Google+ notifications box hit 18 (usually it topped at 2 or 3 every few days), and my mail notifications reached 139. Unfortunately, I also learned that most of those notifications were of no interest to me. I even toyed with the idea of creating my own Community, but I couldn’t think of a really interesting one, plus I honestly didn’t want another online forum to moderate.<\/p>\n

We’ll see where these Communities take both me and Google+. I really hope this is the jump start that people needed to make it all worth investing their time on.<\/p>\n

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So Google introduced a new feature in their Google+ social environment: Communities. And that was my cue to jump in as quickly as possible. I understood right away that this was something that Google+ had desperately needed to become a more interactive place for all gmailers, not just a few who wanted something other than … <\/p>\n

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