Monday, 9 September 2013

Google+ Inception, embedding and linking posts


Sometimes you want to reshare a post that is already a reshare, but you want to keep the comments of the original resharer. My normal MO would be to copy-paste those comments into my share (with attribution of course), but I have just learned a much more elegant method:
Create a new post that links to the Reshare. Just copy the webadress into the link field when creating you're new post, and Bob's your uncle.




Also you can totally embed Google+ posts into webpages now. Go to the drop-down menu on the upper-right corner, select embed post and you will get a pop-up window showing the relevant code.


Copy-past that code onto your webpage (if you're using a platform that has a built-in editor, like blogger be sure to select HTML first!) and the post will be embeded with comments and everything.