Now You Can Reshare Posts On Google Buzz
June 7, 2010 by Bobby Travis 
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For those of you who are still interested in Google Buzz, or at least think it’s a good idea that’s still in progress, late last month the always busy bees over at Google released the 16th feature update (in as many weeks) to the Google Buzz platform: the Reshare button. The ability to re-share a post from someone you follow, thereby easily spreading the information to your own network has been a much-requested feature from users since the launch of Google Buzz — and they made it very easy and surprisingly effective.
Re-sharing content on Google Buzz is as simple as finding a post that interests you, then clicking on the Reshare button, located between Like and Email on the bottom of a Buzz post. When you Reshare, you are doing more than just posting a link, you are posting the entire post, complete with ability to preface it with your own comments. This allows you and your followers to start your own conversation around the topic you’ve just shared. If you want to, you can also share the topic privately, for a more intimate conversation with people or groups that you have set up within Google Buzz. That last is great for both business and personal discussions!
Credit is given where credit is due in Buzz’s Reshare. When you Reshare someone’s post, a link to the original post and another link to the original author is posted right up at the top (complete with their tiny picture), and there is a log kept at the bottom of the original post of how many (and who) publicly Reshared the item. To take it a bit deeper, if someone Reshares a Reshared post (publicly), the additional sharing and sharer are also updated on the pristine original post.
This new feature is bound to help Buzz gain a bit of its slowed momentum back, as it makes it much easier to spread Buzz content about and converse on it. Spread Buzz content around Buzz, anyway. Once Google Buzz and A few other majors start implementing Salmon Protocol for inter-system sharing and conversing, it may help improve their comeback speed some.
What do you think of the Reshare feature in Google Buzz? Will it increase your Buzz usage?
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I love the concept of Buzz. My problems are that the people I want to follow are still on Twitter, and that the “big time” users always have their stuff float to the top of my feed (or have they fixed that?).
Google apparently announced a Buzz API at the recent developers’ conference, so maybe we’ll start seeming some clients that work with both Buzz and Twitter at the same time. That would probably get me using it again. The issue now is that Buzz is just one more network to stay on top of, but if it were seamless with another, like Twitter, via a 3rd party app, that would solve that problem.
I agree. The float to the top thing would be much cooler if it were within my control, not Google’s. I personally could care who their algorithm thinks is or should be important to me. And yep on the “just one more platform” thing as well. We might see a change there with mass adoption of Salmon Protocol, or maybe the “one new feature per week” thing that Buzz has been doing (which Reshare is a part of) will see the sort of integration and control we need.
TweetDeck has integration for Buzz and it is making me post to it as I do so along with my Tweets in one motion, however I used to post to Buzz because it integrated all my Twitter and Facebook connected to it.
The problem is that I am just posting on Buzz on autopilot and not really caring about it, as are over 80% of the posts on there (they are just mirror posts from Twitter/Facebook).
Even with the easier integration, it just doesn’t seem to matter compared to other social media.
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Yeah, that was why I stopped using it for a while myself. I keep my eyes peeled to see what they do next, though.