Hat tip by Jonathan Beri who just made his own circle management post.

At first, when you try to organize your circles I felt like I was (possibly inappropriately) judging people. But after realizing that only you can see your circles, I didn't feel so bad and saw it as a powerful tool to help me consume content.

The only overarching rule I have is to not put people in too many circles and stick to what I believe is their strongest characteristic or aspect in which I will interact with them the most. With the exception of a couple circles, I post mostly public and I use circles as a way to remember who the person is and context (I suck at remembering names but am great at faces).

Without further ado, here's my list with the common ones (Friends, Family, Colleagues, Acquiantences) omitted:

• StartupBus

  • Peeps Mostly participants from my year of StartupBus. It's here mostly to keep track of their new ventures.

• Peeps I met at confs

  • This is where I put people who may or may not work in an area related to my work. This is where I keep them until I interact with them enough to justify another circle. It's also where they stay if they don't post often on Google+.

• Eckerd

  • When you go to a really tiny college that is smaller than some high schools, you really bond together. If I found out you went to my alma mater, it's almost guaranteed that you'll be in this circle.

• Groovy Peeps

  • People that work with the Groovy programming language. Most fall into my Met in Real Life circle but I'm too lazy to move them over.

• Gaming

  • HTML5, Android, and iOS gaming peeps are filed here.

• Following

  • Strictly for brands, journalists, and (Internet) famous people

• Googlers & Xooglers

  • Googlers that work in my interest/work areas or that I've personally worked or broken bread with.

• Interesting People / Cool People

  • I have no idea where to put you but I like your content.

• Hidden

• Met in Hangouts

  • Met in Hangouts is my defacto water cooler circle. I have hung out with these people for literally hundreds of hours. Any goofy content that might be too crude for public gets shared here.

• Met in Real Life

  • Thanks to HIRLs, most of my Met in Hangouts circle is here too. About half of my Googler circle could be here to but I'm too lazy to copy them over.

• French

  • All the Francophones

• Fitbitters

  • People with Fitbits and post fitness stuff

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