Google+ Grows Quickly: This Week in Social Media

Welcome to our weekly edition of what's hot in social media news. To help you stay up-to-date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.

What's New This Week?

Google+ Attracts 10 Million Users in the First 2 Weeks: Google+ is the fastest growing launch of a new social network. Many users are checking out this new platform. Here are some recent updates on Google+:

• Google explains how to upload email addresses to your Google+ account:

• Google asks for you to wait to create your business account on Google+:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at_azOmh69A

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GoogleCards: This is a WordPress plugin to create a Google+ card in your sidebar.

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GoPollGo: Here's  a free, quick and easy Q&A polling site.

Visual.ly: Here's a place to find and promote infographics. Visual.ly is also building a tool to make it easy to create your own infographics.

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