Announced on the Google AdWords Blog, which is a sign of things to come, Google is promoting six companies that are now offering tools for businesses to manage their Google + pages.

Google said, “Google+ is enabling six companies to test Google+ functionality in their management tools — Buddy Media, Context Optional, Hearsay Social, HootSuite, Involver, and Vitrue.” Google added, “These companies will offer a subset of their clients the ability to manage circles, publish to Google+, and monitor usage.”

Google set up a devoted page at google.com/+/business/3rdpartytools.html for these companies and also said you want to add your tool, how to get in touch.

Anyway, I can go off on this a bit but I’ll let you take the hints I dropped here and do that in the comments.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld and Google +.