Google-apps – activate Google+ on the Google Apps account but I am not given the option

Google apps is organization based service. Everything you do there is controlled and maintained by an organization. As Google+ is a social service, and social communication with an organization account is usually much more restricted than anything else(due to the fact that you get to share information with people outside the organization), using of Google+ by google apps users needs administrator approval.

You can go through the related considerations of an organization before they turn on Google+ service.

For the same reason, when you are creating a document using Google drive with your Google apps account and share it with someone who doesn't have an account of your organization, Google will alert you, asking if you are sure you want to share information with someone outside the organization.

The cause of this problem is this: A browser cookie indicates which Google account you're logged into. When you're logged into your work account then go to Google+, G+ tries to access that account's Google+ service, which your company has disabled. If it wasn't disabled, you'd still be connecting to the wrong Google+ account.

Google had a high priority objective for years to make multi-login work on the web. It still doesn't work, and it does not seem forthcoming now that workaround #3 (below) works so well. To get out of the multi-login quagmire you can:

1. Log out of your work account and log in to your personal account when you want to access Google+. Then do the reverse to access your work email.

2. Use a Chrome incognito window (or the Safari or Firefox equivalent) for one of the accounts. This will work, but every time you close the incognito window, it'll log out, and it only works for 2 accounts at a time. It's only a partial solution but it requires no setup.

3. Use a separate Chrome profile per login account. (This is what Google employees use to juggle their google.com, gmail.com, and maybe Google apps accounts.)

   • Create a Chrome profile for each account.
   • In each Chrome profile, login to its associated Google account.
   • You'll open separate Chrome windows, one (or more) per profile.
   • The profile can sync Chrome settings to that account across all your computers.
   • Tip: Use a different Chrome theme for each profile so you can see which one is which.

4. Use a different browser for each Google account. Between Safari, Chrome, Chromium, & Firefox, you can keep 4 accounts distinct.