How to use Circles in Google+

As you start playing with Google+ and Circles, here are a few guidelines for different tastes.

• Simplify your Google+ experience in three easy steps
  Volker Weber's simple guide for starters. This is the way I do it so far.
• Google+, A Collaborative Document: Creative ways to use Circles
  Not a cohesive approach to manage your circles, rather some specific usage patterns you can add.
• Google Plus - One50, Two50 and TheRest
  Luis Suarez' personal approach to keep it simple with lots of connections. And lots of other good info here.
• Managing your Social Graph with Google+
  Christopher Allen's highly sophisticated approach with numbering and everything.

If you want to understand Circles and some of the not so obvious implications, these are good reads:

• Visual Guide to Circles in Google+
• Facebook and Twitter are broadcast design models; Google Plus is a sharing design model