Google+ brand pages: Sober advice for PR pros—and helpful resources

A highly influential blogger says the ‘Google+ brand accounts are woefully inadequate for public companies’ needs.’ Other bloggers, meanwhile, are sharing advice. We round’em up.

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But at least one influential blogger is wishing the brand pages never existed.

“When you work for a public company, anything you post as a representative of that company needs to be done very carefully,” Robert Scoble wrote in a blog post. “The problem is that there’s no editorial tools for anything posted to our Google+ account.

“Google+ brand accounts are woefully inadequate for public companies’ needs.”

He goes on to list seven reasons the brand pages are inadequate, among the reasons: only one person can “own” an account and it’s “extremely easy” to accidentally post something.

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