Organizing your Google Plus data streams for maximum efficiency

So much info so little time
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Information overload and the splitting of our attention makes it increasingly difficult to keep up with the ever growing amount of information in our social network stream Google plus offers the aspect of creating circle that act to filter both incoming and outgoing stream of data and this is a great start, but we need to dig in and customize our accounts to get the maximum use of the system

When you follow someone you need to be clear as to why you are following them. Some people you will follow because you simply love their content and what they have to say, while others you may be following in hopes of them following you back. it is this latter category of contacts where the problem arises. Since everyone else besides you are also flooded with too much information you need to be sure that they 1) want to follow you and 2) will not regret following you.

Post your best general topical content to your public stream, less often

Rather than having potential followers see too much potential information from you, they need to see a modest amount of high quality content from you. You also need to let them know that you have other great stuff available in other circles. If someone comes to you and follows you they need to be able to tell you where to circle them.

Ask new followers which circles they are interested in.

If you for example publish most of your content to your public stream in the hopes of providing plenty of good reasons for your future follower to circle you back you may end up over doing it. A powerful tactic that I have not seen anyone else talk about yet is the concept of pre circling.

Pre Circling for future followers

I did some experiments with my Google+ circles and learned the following:

1. I find someone I want to follow me back
2. I read their posts and profile and get a good idea about which of my topics they would like most
3. I follow them and add them to the circle I want them to read
4. They visit my stream and see a few public posts I made
5. But they also see the posts I made to their circle before they followed me!

This is a powerful feature of circles. If you add someone to a circle, even though they are not yet                      following you yet they will see the content of that circle before they follow you, regardless of what circle they put you in.

10 Circle Management Tips To Save Your Time and Sanity In Google+

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