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Re:Bringing Google+ to work by Matt_Cutts on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @10:30AM (#4448680)
We use both of these features very heavily at Google, so I'm really happy to see them launch externally. The ability to restrict posts to within a company lets you create a corporate social network very easily (think Yammer, Chatter, etc.). One of the main complaints I hear about Google+ is that specific friends aren't on it, but that's much less of an issue if your company uses Google Apps. I spend a lot of time and get a lot of value out of within-our-company Google+ posts.

And since Google has widely distributed offices, I can't tell you how many video meetings I've attended, but it's a lot. Having the ability to join a video conference/hangout from a link in Calendar makes such meetings really easy to set up.

Re:Bringing Google+ to work by BvS on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @12:34PM (#4449445)
I was first very exited about those possibilities but if I get it right I have to basically give up / merge my personal G+ Account unless I want to have 2 account with the same name on G+.

If I do so the Apps-admin will have full control over my account including reading my private messages, deleting my account... right? Besides trust issues I wonder what would happen if I leave the company? How do you handle this at Google?

Re:Bringing Google+ to work by endtime on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @12:39PM (#4449481)
You just have two accounts. But you have that anyway if your company using is Google Apps. I think the assumption that people have a work email and a personal email is generally pretty reasonable.
Re:Bringing Google+ to work by BvS on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @12:46PM (#4449530)
Sounds reasonable indeed. Nevertheless a little confusing since both my profiles would be at least partially public.

What's your experience at Google? Do all off you habe 2 accounts and if so, don't you have problems making sure that your not work related friends etc. don connect with the wrong profile?

Re:Bringing Google+ to work by endtime on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @12:57PM (#4449629)
Any employee who uses Gmail personally has two accounts, yes (I actually have four - personal, .edu, my pre-Google startup, and Google). No one outside the corp environment can see my corp account. From my corp account, I can't find my personal account by searching. If I go directly to my personal profile page and try to circle my personal account from my corp account, I get an error "due to domain restriction".

So I guess the short version is no, what you are concerned about won't happen.

Re:Bringing Google+ to work by tonfa on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @03:23PM (#4450535)
> So I guess the short version is no, what you are concerned about won't happen.

It won't happen for Googlers, but it will happen for G+ business users, since they (afaik) can't make their profile fully private, and it won't be entirely silo'ed.

Re:Bringing Google+ to work by BvS on Thursday August 30, 2012 @04:24AM (#4453606)
Is that true?
Re:Bringing Google+ to work by BvS on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @01:09PM (#4449715)
Thanks for clarifying.
Re:Bringing Google+ to work by Matt_Cutts on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @01:02PM (#4449677)
I have a corp account and a personal account. What I do is make two different pictures for my avatar: I use one avatar of me for my Google-internal account, and a different avatar for external use. Then I can just look up and see which picture of me it is, and I instantly know whether I'm on corp vs. personal.
Re:Bringing Google+ to work by tpiddy on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @01:22PM (#4449808)
what about rel="author" and authorrank?
Re:Bringing Google+ to work by Matt_Cutts on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @03:55PM (#4450715)
I believe it's all linked to my personal account.
Re:Bringing Google+ to work by lt on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @10:40AM (#4448765)
What about Hangouts on Air private to your company? That would be really useful.
Re:Bringing Google+ to work by Matt_Cutts on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @10:44AM (#4448789)
For the most part, we use video hangouts for smaller meetings, but that's an interesting suggestion: I could see private Hangouts on Air being useful for company-wide meetings. I don't know exactly what the team has planned though.
Re:Bringing Google+ to work by johansch on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @02:21PM (#4450215)
Is there a way to make sure that the default mode for new posts from corporate accounts is "restricted"?

Otherwise the risk for accidental spillover just seems too high...

Re:Bringing Google+ to work by timothya on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @02:50PM (#4450373)
Yes. I just looked in the admin settings for Google Apps and it gives the option to default it to restricted posts.
Re:Bringing Google+ to work by johansch on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @04:09PM (#4450806)
I should have been more specific, sorry:

Is this a per company default setting? Can company admins set the defaults for all company users? Or is it an individual user setting?

Re:Bringing Google+ to work by timothya on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @04:52PM (#4451138)
It's an admin setting, the default for all users.
Re:Bringing Google+ to work by johansch on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @02:58PM (#4450411)
Neat. Then this might actually be useful in real life :).
Re:Bringing Google+ to work by teamlaft on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @01:27PM (#4449848)
Hey Matt - I'm the founder/organizer of the NY Enterprise Technology Meetup, the first monthly tech forum in NYC exclusively focused on enterprise tech company demos. Are you able to connect me with someone from the team so that I can inquire about them demoing at a future event?

We launched in January of this year, have almost 1,000 members, and get about 125 attendees to each events (mix of technologists, entrepreneurs, investors, and students). Check us out at www.meetup.com/ny-enterprise-tech and www.nyetm.com.

Thanks!

Re:Bringing Google+ to work by Matt_Cutts on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @03:57PM (#4450735)
Not sure, but let me ask around.
Re:Bringing Google+ to work by danmaz74 on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @11:23AM (#4449027)
How easy is it to reshare a "company" post to the wrong people?
Re:Bringing Google+ to work by Matt_Cutts on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @11:40AM (#4449127)
From the post: "Restricted posts are private to your organization and can never be re-shared with anyone outside."

Now if you do a corporate G+ post and say "Bob in accounting sucks" and then share that with Bob--that's on you. :)

Re:Bringing Google+ to work by danmaz74 on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @11:45AM (#4449162)
Thanks; so, you would need to copy and paste it to share it.

I don't know why, but psychologically I would feel like this is somehow less private than, say, a mailing list. I'm probably becoming old :)

Re:Bringing Google+ to work by blinks on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @02:15PM (#4450178)
> I don't know why, but psychologically I would feel like this is somehow less private than, say, a mailing list. I'm probably becoming old :)

I think that's a really interesting comment! Perhaps it's because the UX is more social network-y (FB/Twitter), which are historically public, and less email-y+historically private?

Re:Bringing Google+ to work by danmaz74 on Thursday August 30, 2012 @03:11PM (#4456234)
That's possible, but a more likely reference is forums. The ones I used were mostly public too :)
Re:Bringing Google+ to work by xxpor on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @12:52PM (#4449579)
Ask Steve Yegge.
Re:Bringing Google+ to work by VikingCoder on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @11:07AM (#4448912)
If Wave had gotten this feature, I would have used it for all of my corporate documents.
Re:Bringing Google+ to work by jeffjose on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @11:12AM (#4448954)
Google Docs (now called Drive documents) work just fine and I think is actually a product of rectifying the mistakes they made with Wave.