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~

Never miss another great Community post

Great conversations make for vibrant Communities, and there’s no better conversation starter than an interesting post. But with all the activity lively Communities have, even the most compelling posts can slide out of view before you have a chance to see them. To make sure you never miss out on what’s up, we’re changing the way Community posts are displayed to show you the good stuff first.

Starting today, whenever you visit a Community, you’ll see the most high quality, relevant posts up top, rather than the just the most recent ones. Of course, if you’d like to switch back to chronological view, it’s easy to do so from the Community Settings / Preferences menu.

We’ll be rolling this out gradually, so please visit your favorite Community and let us know what you think!

Google+ Web Updates Oct 4
Following our series of news about Google+ for Work, new G+ management tools, and more over the past few weeks, we’re returning to addressing common points of feedback & requests with a few Google+ Web updates:

* Turn animated comments (as seen on all streams) on and off.
* View poll results from the post menu (even if you haven’t voted yet)

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

Google+ for Work
Big news. Starting today Google+ joins Gmail, Google Drive, Calendar and more as a core Apps for Work service. That means Google+ will now be included in existing Google Apps agreements for most customers. For more information, check out the official announcement: http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2016/09/googleplus-core-service.html

G+ iOS Update 6.0.0
Our ninth Google+ iOS app update of the year is rolling out today with faster start-up times and multiple features to edit and customize your Google+ profile. John’s post has further details: