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Google+ Communities – Four Months Later

A few weeks ago you got to hear my rant about those people who complain that Google+ isn’t working for them, and I listed my top 12 reasons for failure on G+.   Well  today I feel just as frustrated over the fact that there are still so many of my fellow food bloggers wasting [...]

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Making Google Plus Work For You!

All too often I hear the same lament from fellow food bloggers, “Google Plus just doesn’t work for me”.  When I hear this I do my best not to cringe, shout out expletives and tell them exactly why it doesn’t work for them…….sigh Instead I take a deep breath, and repeat I’m one with the [...]

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What’s New with Google Plus- It’s a Brand New Day!

I guess what I should be saying is, it’s a New Day for Brands! You gotta love Google+, it’s not your Mother’s Social Media.  It’s a living breathing entity that grows as it’s community of users grow, it changes and adapts to the wants and the needs of it users.  What other social media does [...]

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How to use Google+ Communities – The Food Bloggers Guide

For those of you on Google+, you’ve seen the addition of Communities on G+.  For me it was a dream come true. I have been working on building a community for food bloggers on G+ since Federated Media sold us out and dismantled our community.  We had become a wondering band of food bloggers with [...]

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Google+, How to be a Good Plusser , and What’s Going on at the Mount

These last two weeks have exhausting, I’m still recovering from a respiratory infection I got before Thanksgiving, and I’m on my second round of antibiotics.  In spite of all that I faced one of the most important catered  events of the year at the Mount, a reception for 200 to kick off the beginning of [...]

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Say Goodbye to Foodbuzz, and Say Hello to Google+

Let’s start this story with a moment of silence for our old friend Foodbuzz.   They were the beginning for a lot of us, they helped us to grow, to make new friends, and  to make us into better bloggers in-spite of ourselves….sigh But sadly those days are over, the new owners have finally made the changes [...]

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