During the last year, Google+, the search engine giant’s aggressive foray into social media, has grown quickly. Along with that, mind mappers, bloggers and software developers in the field of mind mapping software have set up pages on Google+. If you click on the mind map above, you’ll be taken to clickable version of it which you can use to navigate to each personal and product page on Google+.

What’s surprising is the number of key people – and especially software developers – who are missing on this important new communication channel. While I can sympathize that this is another social media outpost they need to update on a regular basis, the fact is that having a quality presence there and excellent content that visitors give a “G+” to (their version of a “thumbs up” can play major dividends in terms of improved ranking in Google search results.