Week 12 Post B

Linkedin  

Prior to this week’s assignments, I was not aware that Linkedin had groups and in fact had not been on linkedin since I originally joined as a requirement to use Airbnb a number of years ago.  There seems to be an active network of professional groups, several of which I have requested to join. 

Google+
Google+ is chaotic for me, searching for groups returns broad results, it does not seem like a good fit for a networking tool for me.  It seems entertainment oriented, suggesting groups such as NFL, WWE, Justin Bieber…  I did do a search for Yoga for MS since I teach Yoga for MS and find that networking groups are limited and often have few participants.  Despite the Yoga for MS Google+ group only having 24 participants I elected to “Follow” the group, I was immediately notified that my network will be notified that I am following said group.  I would prefer that kind of notification to be optional.  

I tried to discover how to create a Google+ page for my business without any success.  The textbooks, Google help, nor Google searches provided sufficient information for me to create a new page for my business. 

I was able to create events within Google+ but it was not through a business page since I was not able to set one up.

Here are the links to the event pages I created:

https://plus.google.com/events/c76cam3l2iphc7d8inj6cic5ih0

https://plus.google.com/events/cmbv22j5tsrn5g27djcejlukdac

Yelp

Until this assignment, I had not set up a business Yelp account.  As of today, I have one.  Here is the link:

https://www.yelp.com/biz/lauramcintireyoga-san-diego

I do not have any Yelp reviews since the account is brand new.  Yelp reviews absolutely impact business.  I have used Yelp reviews myself when looking for accommodations and dining establishments and have also written reviews. I suspect that having a Yelp business account and adding keywords to the photos and the business description will help with SEO.