Serious Gaming With Google Plus Cross-Posting

Serious Games challenging us to play at building better social networks

After a couple of days playing with Google+ basics (I must confess that rounding up my circles has consumed most of the time), I came across the Start Google+ Extension for Chrome, which helps to increase productivity across Google+, Twitter and Facebook networks, especially in terms of my Serious Games articles cross-posting.

Start Google+ is designed to help you jump right into Google's new social network. Here are a few things that the plug-in can do:

* Automatically post to Facebook AND Twitter whenever you share something on Google Plus (you can turn this on/off from within the share window in Google Plus)

* Add a Gmail inbox notifier to the top bar, so that you do not have to keep a Gmail tab open. Clicking on the Gmail icon shows a menu with the unread messages that let you access your emails directly inside Google+.

* And if you visit http://startgoogleplus.com you can also transfer or sync your photos from Facebook, and get a Google+ Nickname as I did:

ElianeAlhadeff - Google+

SeriousGames - Google+

Here is a consolidated path:

1.   Go to http://www.startgoogleplus.com/?ref=nf 

2.    Click inside the box (literally, not a joke):

 Step 1 - Download Extension 

3. After extension is installed, on the right end of your Google+ blackbar you will find the orange icon that connects you to FB/Twitter, for further cross-posting, and the Gmail notifier. From here you can login to your Twitter and Facebook account.