Grow Circles : Learn How to Grow Your Circle

Grow Circles

Welcome to the Grow Circles website. The purpose of this site is to help people with growing the size of their networking circles on Google. If you are a social person, you most likely want to grow your social network.

Some people wish to grow their network for personal reasons (develop friends or stay in touch with family) and others wish to grow their contacts for business purposes. Regardless of why you wish to expand your network, you would use similar techniques to grow your circle. Similar to trying to grow the number of likes on Facebook, you may want to grow your social circles on Google.

One way to grow your circle is to simply ask other people to join your circle. You can ask people to, "please join my circles".

The following instruction is from the Google website from July 18, 2011:

Add someone to a circle

You can add people to your circles in four different ways:

Through the Circles icon at the top of the stream.
Directly from a person's profile.
From the Incoming stream.
From the suggestions on the side of the stream.
From the Notifications menu.

Once you add someone to an existing circle, all of the content that you previously shared with that circle (before the new person was a member) will now be visible to them on the Posts tab of your profile and in their stream.

When you add someone who's already using Google+ to one of your circles for the first time, that person may receive a notification that you've added them. If you add them to additional circles, they won't receive additional notifications. Learn more about Google+ Notifications.

You can check back on occasion to the Google website add someone to a circle page to see if they have made updates / revisions to the above instruction. When seeking instruction on the best way to use the +1 or Circles program from Google would be to consult directly with their website. Here is the page that we visited to find the "Add Someone to a Circle" instruction above http://www.google.com/support/+/bin/static.py?page=guide.cs&guide=1257347&answer=1047826

We suggest you also try their FAQ section because they may add helpful information to additional pages in the future.

From the Getting Started with Circles section of the Google + Project web pages, we have found the following comments that may be of help to you. Hopefully, this will help you with growing your cirlce.

"If you don't have anyone to add to your circles yet, you can add them in a number of ways. For instance, you can use the Find and Invite Tab and people suggestions. Learn more about inviting people to Google+. "

More about People Suggestions:

The following instruction is from the Google website from July 18, 2011:

On the side of the stream and on the Find and Invite tab, you may see suggestions for people Google+ thinks you might know. Suggestions could be generated by:

Your mutual connections with people on Google products such as Gmail.
Interaction you’ve had with others on Google products.
The links you've added to your profile.
The connected accounts you've linked on your Google Account.
The people who are in your extended circles.

While viewing your suggestions beside the stream, you can add suggested people to your circles by clicking Add to circles next to their name. If you don’t know a suggested person or if you don’t want to add them to a circle, mouse over the person's name and click the X.

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Please let us know your suggestions regarding how to grow your circles. We would be happy to add more information to this site in order to help others.

Note: The Grow Circles website is NOT affiliated with Google in anyway. This site was developed simply to offer assistance to people who wish to learn about Circles from Google. In addition to learning about the system, our aim is to also discuss ways for people to grow (expand) their circles of influence.

About Google Circles:

This description was from the Google site July 18th, 2011, "Google+ Circles helps you organize everyone according to your real-life social connections--say, 'family,' 'work friends,' 'music buddies,' and 'alumni'. Then, you can share relevant content with the right people, and follow content posted by people you find interesting. For example, you might post an announcement about your engagement and show it only to people in your friends and family circles, or maybe you see a post from the circle you created for your book club that there's a recent article on your favorite author."

Learn more about circles from the Google website.

Join My Circle

Tip About Mentioning Someone:
When you mention somone in a post, they'll receive a notification that you've shared with them and an invitation to join Google+.

Make a post.
Mention someone by placing a '+' or '@' in front of their email address.
Click Share.

You may want to also check out the following links of interest to the Google+project.