Thursday, July 14, 2011

Corporate Serious Games: Google+ Expanding Fast To Business


Serious Games challenging us to play a better workplace

Serious Games improving Business Circles

Via: Google+ Christian Oestlien - Public

Christian Oestlien, group product manager at Google, has just posted to Google+ a reshare request:

“Google+ users, please do me a small favor and reshare this post to anyone you know is interested in our business profiles testing. I wasn't kidding when I said the demand for this has been massive. Our old form has filled up, so we created a new form for any businesses interested in applying.” 

“Please visit here to apply for participation: http://www.goo.gl/KR7z5
Remember, we will close the application form at 6pm PST on Friday July 15th.”

Mashable reports today, under the article Google Accelerates Google+ For Business Test Program, that Google, which had initially planned to test business partners on Google+ in the next “few months,” is moving more quickly with that program. 

The International Business Times also reports the same movement under today’s article Google+ Tells Business to Stay Away, But Speeds up Business Profile Launch.

Dennis Troper (product manager for business profiles), and Christian Oestlien will focus next week on selecting a diverse set of business partners for the test period.

Earlier this month, Oestlien asked businesses to stay off of Google+ for a while, as in its current form Google+ is not suited to the needs of companies - the way users communicate with each other differing from how they would communicate with a brand.

Nevertheless, several brands, including Ford, Breaking News and Mashable have created profiles anyway. 

Google+'s popularity among users is expanding. It is estimated that as much as 20 million people could use Google+ by this weekend, this according to a report by Ancestry.com founder Paul Allen.