Faster Web Pages on Android
Today we’re starting to roll out support for Accelerated Mobile Pages (https://www.ampproject.org/) in the new Google+ Android app (version 9.2). Now when you browse G+ on Android, look for the little lightning bolt icon to load articles up to 4x faster and using up to 10x less data.

As always, please send us your ideas/issues using our Send Feedback menu item as that’s the best way to ensure we’ll see them. Thanks~

New Notifications Experience on Android
We’re turning on an improved Google+ notifications experience on Android (with version 9.1.0). This new system will deliver Google+ notifications more reliably and includes some new features as well.

For starters, you can not only mark all notifications as read but filter all your notifications by All, Unread, and Other Updates as well. (These filters are already available on the Google+ Web and iOS apps.)

With this update we’ll also hide application menus when you scroll through notifications to give you a full screen view of what’s happening. Just scroll back up to reveal the menus again and/or tap the Notifications tab to quickly jump to the top of your notifications list.

As always, please send us your ideas/issues using our Send Feedback menu item as that’s the best way to ensure we’ll see them. Thanks~

Google+ Web Updates Nov 17
Today we’re starting to roll out two improvements to the Google+ notifications experience on the Web. In addition to being able to mark all notifications as read, you can now mark individual notifications as read too. We’ve also added thumbnails and icons to help you easily scan your notifications list and pick out which ones to act on.

As always, please keep sending us your ideas/issues using the Send Feedback menu item.
Thanks~

Google+ Web Updates Nov 15
Today we’re starting to roll out one of the most requested features for our new Google+ Web experience: drag & drop images for new posts and comments. John’s post has all the details: https://plus.google.com/110610523830483756510/posts/HJSgJxbC5zG

Thanks for all the requests for this feature and please keep sending us your ideas/issues using the Send Feedback menu item as we continue to listen, launch, and learn.
Thanks~

Google+ Web Updates Nov 10
Over the past two days, John & Daniel shared some new features we launched on the Google+ Web experience:

* Extra fast Web page loading with AMP: https://plus.google.com/110610523830483756510/posts/fh6huNvL9ma

* Easier posting inside Communities: https://plus.google.com/+DanielRaynaudGoog/posts/icx8qXDKZUy

Stay tuned for more updates soon and as always, please keep sending us your ideas/issues using the Send Feedback menu item.
Thanks~

Google+ Web Updates Oct 21
Today we’re updating the Google+ Web experience with a few small but quite useful improvements:

* Thumbnails for posts now appear next to notifications on the new Notifications screen
* Hovering over any post in a stream now reveals a quick action to view that post’s page

As always, please keep sending us your ideas/issues using the Send Feedback menu item.
Thanks~

Tips for Creating a High Quality Collection

Here are some guidelines to help you create a high quality Collection, attract new followers and create meaningful engagement:

Topic, Title and Tagline: Your Collection must have one clear and consistent topic. Originality is key so make sure your title is unique, engaging and reflects your Collection theme. Use the tagline to describe the content of your Collection.

Cover-Photo: Avoid a blurry or pixelated image (unless it’s on purpose!). Choose a personalized cover-photo consistent with the theme.

Post: Post regularly to keep your followers interested and make sure they come back for more. Publishing your own content is great but you can also share others’ content as long as you credit the owner(s) in your post. Content attribution is very important.
You can also pin a post in your Collection to further explain what it is about or simply pin your favorite post.

Hook: Don’t forget about the introductory sentence. It helps your followers to quickly understand what your post is about. Share your opinion, tell your story, be personal. Followers are interested in getting to know you better and learning about your expertise and interest. It will also help create a strong connection between you and your followers.

Content: It’s fun to mix the type of content you are posting in a Collection. If your topic allows it, play with vertical and horizontal images, videos, GIF, create a poll… See what works best.

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Discover the Google+ Collections Community (https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/104797282868426074024), a great place to learn, share tips and get support for creating high quality Collections while meeting like-minded people. Don’t hesitate to share your Collection in the “Get Feedback On My Collection” section and ask questions.

Keep creating!

Our tenth Google+ iOS app update of the year is rolling out to Apple’s App Store starting today. In this release we took a number of key features previously implemented as Web code and re-wrote it as native iOS code, which should provide a faster/smoother experience. Specifically:

* Create Community
* Edit Community
* Updated Featured Collections card in stream

As always, please send us your ideas/issues using our Send Feedback menu item in the app as that’s the best way to make sure we see them. Thanks~