The Google+ Guide Circles, Photos, and Hangouts

This approachable, four-color book will offer readers a thorough guide to using Google+, Google's answer to the challenge it faces from Facebook, Twitter, and all other ways people are being social on the web. After covering the fundamentals of being social on the web, the book digs into how to set up and manage Circles, control the Stream, share photos and video, use Hangouts, get the most out of Sparks, and use games. There will be extensive coverage of photography and building communities around photography. The book also covers using the iOS and Android Google+ apps.

Scott McNulty joins every new social network so you don’t have to. Google+ is his latest online obsession and it’ll soon be yours. Scott lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Marisa. By day he works at the The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and by night he blogs about whatever strikes his fancy at blog.blankbaby.com. He has also been known to tweet once or twice under the handle @blankbaby. He is the author of The Mac OS X Lion Project Book, and both editions of Building a WordPress Blog People Want to Read.