Mentioning in Blogger - The New Feature

Well, here I come with Google's new cool feature. And that is you can 'Mention' people on Google Plus in your blogger posts. Sounds cool, ain't it? Plus, this is an effective way to let the person know that you're referring to them in your post. Seems similar to that of Facebook's tagging, ain't it? The other thing about this is you can tag a person or a Google Plus page even if they don't follow you. But this depends on how they have configured their Google Plus settings. They might receive a notification about mention after you publish the post.

Mentioning others

You can do this in the same way as you mention a person in the comment i.e., Just type '+' or '@' followed by the name or page. As you are typing the name, you'll see a list of names appear below. You can select the person or page that you'd like to mention. This feature's already in Google Plus. If you've configured your settings to share your blog posts to Google Plus, you'll see that the names of the people you've mentioned in your post will be automatically added to the share box.

But, to use this feature, first you've to upgrade your blogger profile to a Google+ profile.

How does it work?

As said, this needs your Blogger's integration with Google Plus. Talking out of the post, this helps you spread your blog and engage with your readers on a more intimate level. I'd suggest you to integrate your Blogger with Google Plus. Coming back to the post, as said, if you want to mention someone or a page in a post, you can do that by using '+' or '@' followed by their name. They'll be able to see the entire post on which they were mentioned even if the post was not shared with them.

This feature is particularly useful when you are on a huge post and you want to mention/address someone specifically, or when you want to add someone to a post.

For instance, if I'm on post about my past and I want to tag a person who inspired me then I would mention the person's page or name in my post.

To mention someone in a post:
1. Type +[person's name] or @[person's name]. You can also type their email address instead of their name.
2. As you type, an autocomplete list of peopel will appear.
3. Select the person you want to mention.

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