How To Invite Almost Anyone To Google+, Without The Invites

I’m chucking this post up in a real rush, because I just want to share this before I get into my next meeting – forgive the brevity, I plan to update later.

Right, so I got onto Google+ and wanted to share the love and invite some friends and colleagues to find out how it all works. Except the Invite system isn’t working, they’ve turned it off. I still really wanted to share, so I found a way and here it is:

If you just want to invite on person:

• Write a post in your stream
• Click ‘+ Add circles or people to share with…’
• Type the email address of the desired recipient
• Click Share

If you want to invite many contacts:

• Import contacts to the Gmail account you sign into Google+ with (plenty of tutorials on the internet for this, I’ll link to some later)
• Add all these contacts to your ‘Friends’ circle (Circles -> More Actions -> Select All -> Drag to ‘Friends’)
• Go back to your stream
• Type a post
• Click ‘+ Add circles or people to share with…’
• Select ‘Friends’ Circle
• Click Share (you’ll probably get told that x people aren’t part of Google+, just press OK then share again)

Et Voila! You have now sent an email to all those people with an email to sign up to Google+