We’re clearly huge fans of Google+. Heck we’re writing How-to books to help professionals in various industries get the most out of the network.
When Google released the brand pages into the GPlus ecosystem they really should have had them “fully baked.”
What do I mean by “fully baked?”
Here are some of the issues I’ve found with the new brand pages:
- The person who creates the page is the default administrator and can’t add anyone else, as of yet, to help administer the page.
- The brand pages look just like the regular personal pages.
- There is no way to verify the authenticity of a brand page. There are fake pages all about the network claiming to be the “official” brand when they’re not.
- When a brand hangs out they need to be the one originating the hangout. The controller of the page can’t join a hangout (as far as I’ve seen) already in progress as that brand.
- When you’re in the “classic” hangout and click on a participant’s name you are taken to their profile page. This isn’t the problem. The problem is that when you go to circle them you’re not circling them as the brand but as yourself. There should be some type of dialog asking you which account you want to circle them under.
These are just the top five issues I’ve found with the new Google Plus hangouts. I’m sure the engineers at Google are hard at work iterating, but they need to fast.
To be honest, what took them so long to release these pages? It’s been about 5 months and what they released could have taken the a couple of days (from what I can see).
What do you think of the brand pages? What problems have you found? What solutions do you have or changes you’d like to see happen? Post your thoughts in the comments below.
About Seth GoldsteinSeth Goldstein has been working in the Internet Marketing spaces for years. He started his company, Goldstein Media LLC, in 2007 and has been at the forefront of the digital revolution ever since. Seth prides himself on helping companies of all sizes get a handle on how to get their businesses online and found.