If you're using Blogger for your daily personal or business writings, you might be happy to know that it has gotten a bit more of the Google+ social treatment, thanks to a new feature that is a welcomed addition. We haven't heard much about Google's blogging platform since it's redesign in March of last year, sadly. This is the platform that Ev Williams, co-founder of Twitter, sold to Google in 2003.
You can now mention anyone on Google+ within your post, and they'll see it as a notification. Good way to get people's attention, also a good way to provide context to your content.
Here's what Blogger's Maite Ubi had to say about it:
Now you can add a link to a Google+ profile or page when you want to mention someone in a post. If you then share your post from Blogger to Google+, we make it easier to notify your mentions by including them in the sharebox.
To mention someone, just type "+" before their name while you're using the Blogger post editor.
The profile or page will show up as a link in your published post. Hovering over will show a card with more info and an 'Add to circles' button. Clicking the link takes you straight to the Google+ profile or page.
You could also use this feature when you're writing about a brand or page on Google+, but sadly you can't pump up one of your new Communities just yet. Doing this will then provide that needed context and attention-grabbing, too. Is this an earth-shattering feature? No, but it's a demonstration of Google's continuing promise to tie all of its products together with a "social spine", which is of course Google+. Which is of course, just Google.
You've been able to tie your Google+ account to your Blogger profile for some time now, but it's becoming clearer as to why you'd want to do that, with features like this.
You can use Google+ in a private way, or an overly social way, it's up to you. Choice is good.
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