50 Google+ Tips

1. Create A Killer Hovercard: goo.gl/ifDhJW
2. Sharing to Circles vs. Publicly: goo.gl/1qr0YO
3. Google+ Communities: goo.gl/NC21Ly
4. Share Your G+ Posts on Other SM : goo.gl/QeefiD
5. Report Issues With G+ or Suggest Ideas:goo.gl/FywX2c
6. Create A "Save For Later" Circle: goo.gl/PmBRWf
7. Add A Large Image To Your Post: goo.gl/lVr3yj
8. The Various G+ Keyboard Shortcuts : goo.gl/7BaxMs
9. Share Someone Else's G+ Post : goo.gl/DYJo3U
10. Create A Mini Blog on G+: goo.gl/zEVIOM
11. Host A Google+ Hangout: goo.gl/2P0n0Q
12. Leave A Wake of Value-Add In Your Path:goo.gl/lpCzaD
13. Take Control Of Your G+ Notifications:goo.gl/WHU0p3
14. SEO Your Google+ Posts: goo.gl/oYb6J1
15. How To Find Things On G+: goo.gl/rY18uQ
16. Formatting For Beautiful, Engaging Posts:goo.gl/mnfP5d
17. How To Disable Comments & Shares:goo.gl/Bkc6Mp
18. Attract More Comments With Gifs & Image Posts:goo.gl/VGcNhl
19. Start A Conversation With Someone :goo.gl/VXOVmy
20. Create An Event Using G+: goo.gl/IUFmlP
21. Enable Automatic Hash-tagging: goo.gl/MuoV9h
22. Don’t Give Up At The First Hurdle: goo.gl/2zdPQ8
23. The Benefits of Link Shorteners: goo.gl/pwfGXo
24. Understanding Ripples & Using Them To Your Advantage: goo.gl/Z47kxp
25. What Not To Do On G+ (Part 1): goo.gl/IdP51J
26. Edit Posts - Did You Know You Could Do That?:goo.gl/aFsKU9
27. Choose The Best Link Thumbnail For Your Post:goo.gl/wXTSh4
28. Start Building Your Author Rank: goo.gl/4427P3
29. Link G+ To Your Content With Authorship Tags:goo.gl/Rn4GGJ
30. Curate & Streamline Circles for Awesome News Streams: goo.gl/e8lNhh
31. Use Eye-Grabbing Headlines: goo.gl/p45IPK
32. Use Google Drive With Google+: goo.gl/zpwHHC
33. Track Circle Shares With CircleCount: goo.gl/TXfe2j
34. Be Awesome With AutoAwesome: goo.gl/Inq2bX
35. Build Your Following By Watching Hangouts:goo.gl/Rjgrhi
36. Overcome Difficulties With Plus-Mentioning People:goo.gl/nQsT9T
37. Write Posts That People Are Actually Looking For:goo.gl/D8NwGh
38. Use ‘The Google+ Effect’ To Improve Your Twitter Experience: goo.gl/hLE1Ia
39. Learn How To Use Images Appropriately & Legally:goo.gl/D3dzCc
40. Learn To Schedule Posts With +Do Share:  goo.gl/1BUcrN
41. Build A Community Around Your Passion:goo.gl/IsFrHg
42. Optimise Your Profile/Page/Community For Search:goo.gl/YMblJF
43. Share Beyond Your Circles & GPlussers:goo.gl/ryHWHQ
44. Blocking & Muting People - As Simple As It Sounds?:goo.gl/wqsXnN
45. Extend The Life Of Your Best Posts: goo.gl/tGw9g7
46. Merge Multiple Google+ Profiles Together:goo.gl/sRKzp8
47. Using Your About Tab More Effectively:goo.gl/sNqUDQ
48. Posting Multiple Photos Per Post: goo.gl/sM32aP
49. Use Google+ ...Every Day: goo.gl/fS0tIq
50. What Not To Do On Google+ (Part 2):goo.gl/3ahoO4

More:
Google+ Toolbox -> goo.gl/MpvmKy
Google+ Top Trending Questions -> goo.gl/L70aGY
Google+ Help Tips -> goo.gl/6DIjpS 

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With one string, she hope!

With one string she hopes,

She hopes to make the best of rhythms never heard.

Inspiring musings never heard yet powerful to entice one’s ears and mind alike

Inspiring musings strong enough to hypnotize you and send you dreaming at the time of day!

Tales of the wonderful musings will draw you closer to her;

Like a hypnotized zombie you will take strides across the street.

You will walk from street to street tracing her by step as the sounds grow louder:

The beautiful musings from one string-the one string on the harp.

….and suddenly you will stop…..on the sight of this great wonder!

Tattered clothes, bruised hands with loosely bound bandages

 is what you will see covering this beautiful slender buxom lady

 With a soft light skin complexion of a coloured and yet she’s not!

-and with a harp by her lap left with only one string yet still hoping to produce some great music!

Pity and mercy is what you will feel as bouts of empathy gush through your veins

And yet still wonder of how such great mysteries of talent could sprout from a damsel such as her!

With one string she still has hope to produce music, that may soothe

And tantalise my ears enough to make me feel soothed and incarnated

That I may dance like King David enough to shake my clothes off and not notice.

With one string, she hopes!

1

Improving mindsets: the leading leadership challenge in East Africa development.

As a sprouting leader, I have perceived that it is the poor mindsets of East Africans that have hindered the overall development of East Africa which is amazingly gifted with vast wealth. This includes the leaders of the nations that comprise the community.

Our flawed mindset falsely informs us that we are inferior, that we must always look to the West for answers and solutions. It also misleads us into thinking that we do not have the resources we need to create wealth. A poor mindset blinds us to the opportunities that are widely available and that have attracted foreign nationals who see what we do not see.

Changing mindsets will be done thorough improved education and mental development starting from home, school, and the society at large. Many leaders do not know that they are stakeholders in the mindset development of the citizens at the highest level of human interaction. At home, it is the responsibility of the parents while at school it is the teachers and lastly the political and religious leaders.

Great anticipated change in development will always fail to take place unless all the stakeholders speak the same language and share the same cause for action. We are reminded in Genesis in the Bible where human kind was able to build a great tower to heaven because they all spoke the same language and had the same mindset. Being a populous region of 150 million plus should not be a limiting factor because countries like China have been able to achieve their dream of world power development because the majority of their citizens have the same mindset and speak the same language. We need to be one people, to have one destiny.

As East Africans we will need to work towards bringing on board all people irrespective of their social status, ethnicity, and economic class and religious inclinations and unite as one with the same purpose of building a mighty East Africa. We need to be culturally sensitive and competent.

Changing our education system to become one that encourages innovation and creativity rather than cram work will enable us to overcome the copycat syndrome that breeds only passivity and inappropriate adoption of unsustainable and irrelevant change. The various school curriculum should fit today's and tomorrow's needs but not those of yesterday's industrial revolution as set by our former colonialists. Vocational training should be positively embraced.

Promoting young people in positions of leadership can also help foster new ideas in governance that can transform society since they bring new perspectives. The world is revolving very fast and for development to competitively fairly occur, we need the fresh youthful input they are exposed to new ideas and think far much better than the older generation.

All citizens in the East African community need to attain the new mindset that they are leaders by virtual of their estate and need to be accountable first to themselves and then the community at large. Just as charity begins at home, so does leadership begin with self.

As Sssesanga Dennis Ernest, being a proud Ugandan and a delighted default member of the East African community, I strongly believe that the poor midset challenge can collectively be solved right from the grass roots of the home to community level with enough cultural competence and sensitivity and a rightful personal mindset. “One people, one destiny!”

The writer is a public health graduate of International Health Sciences University.