Week in Review - June 20, 2015: Summer solstice edition

Happy Summer Solstice and Father's Day both! This week there are tips for managing your photos, getting paid through AdSense, Google+ collections, YouTube creators and more!

YouTube and Video Creation

• Creator Academy Production Skills boot camp is running through June 26
• Are you a musician who lets YouTubers use your music for free? Are you looking for music for your next video? Check out +Leo Wattenberg's music resources spreadsheet
• Twitter rolling out autoplay of native videos, Vines and animated GIFs
• How to transfer your YouTube channel from one Google account to another ( +The Lady from Uncle on YouTube - there is also a short version)

Photos

• Save storage space by re-uploading your photos to Google Photos at "High Quality"
• Snapseed update: Even better pro photo editing on your mobile device
• Google Photos vs Flickr: which is better? ( +Lifehacker )
• Having trouble finding the right profile photo? Ask your friends to help you find the photo of the best you (Buzzfeed Google Photos promo)

Google+

• Learn more about creating and managing Collections in the new official Google+ Collections community 
• Google+ Collections update: add a tagline ( +Jaana Nyström )
• Give your Google+ Community a unique cover image ( +Google+ Top Contributors )
• Small Business owners: join the 500000 members of the Google Small Business Community to get help succeeding on the web

Bloggers and Webmasters

• Bloggers, webmasters and everyone with a website: are you using Google Search Console?
• Facebook Adds Authorship. Bloggers Take Note! ( +Mike Allton )

AdSense

• AdSense Publishers:  payment details from the legacy payments system will be going away - download a copy for your records! Deadline: June 30th
• AdSense Publishers and YouTube Partners, you need to set a payment method in your AdSense account ( +J. Gracey Stinson )
• Have a website? It's easy to monetize with AdSense ads if you and your site are eligible (new promo ad - AdSense also has a new logo!)

Hangouts and other chat 

• Skype for Web (beta) now available for Chromebooks
• Munch, munch, munch: Unicode update includes emoji for popcorn, hot dogs and tacos

Productivity

• Google Docs: Edit your documents, spreadsheets, and presentations offline -- only with Chrome.
• Google Sheets Update: Sheets give you more ways to visualize and analyze your data on the web.
• New ways to add reminders in Inbox by Gmail

And more...

• Google helps celebrate Ramadan with  "My Ramadan Companion"
• #AndProud ... add your Androidified self Google's Pride celebration
• Google removing "revenge porn" from the search results
• YouTube Newswire curates eye-witness videos of breaking news stories from around the world
• YouTube Live at E3 (now recorded)
• Inceptionism: Going Deeper into Neural Networks

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