Technology Tip of the Week

Google Profile Picture – One of Your Faces to the World
What face would you like to present to the world? In Google, you can choose almost any photo as your profile photo – the photo that will show up whenever another user rolls over your name in his or her email inbox, Contacts or Chat list, or when someone looks at your Google+ profile. Keeping your profile photo up-to-date with your agency employee badge photo is a great way for clientele to find and identify you when using Google products. If you have a Google+ profile, that photo shows up whenever you interact with someone via email or chat.

Finding your Heartland AEA Google+ Profile:
1.    Go to your Heartland AEA Gmail account.
2.    Click on the app grid and find the Google+ icon.


The profile picture from your Google+ profile will appear in all of the Google Apps. If you would to change your Google+ profile picture:
1.    Go to your Google+ profile.
2.    Use your cursor to hover over your profile picture > Change profile picture.
3.    Choose a new photo. You can upload one, pick one from your albums or take a new photo.
4.    Click Set as profile photo.
 
Don’t have a Google+ profile? Then the picture you have in your Gmail settings will be what people see.
 Here’s how you update your Gmail profile picture:

• Click the gear in the top right.
• Select Settings.
• From the My picture section, click Select a picture. The Upload a picture window will appear.
• Upload a new photo from your computer, or select a photo from your previous Google profile photos.
• A box will appear over your photo, selecting part of it. Drag the corners of the selected region to crop your photo, or resize the region by clicking and dragging one of the region corners.
• Click Apply Changes.