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Facebook News Feed Changes: This Week in Social Media
Facebook Enhances Controls: This Week in Social Media
Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news.
To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.
What’s New This Week?
Facebook Gives You Better Controls to Manage Your Content: Facebook’s latest updates include “Privacy Shortcuts, an easier-to-use Activity Log and a new Request and Removal tool for managing multiple photos you’re tagged in.”
To access key settings for the new Privacy Shortcuts, you just go to the Facebook toolbar.
YouTube and Google+ Improve Integration: Now “when you upload a new public video to YouTube, you’ll have the option to share to Google+. Simply check the box, add a note and you’re all set.” Google+ will display all of your public YouTube videos on your Google+ profile.
Google+ will "also rename the 'Videos' tab to 'YouTube' and send people to YouTube when they click."
Discussion From Our Networking Clubs: Thousands of social media marketers and small business owners are asking questions and helping others in our free Networking Clubs. Here are a few interesting discussions worth highlighting:
- What are your thoughts on Facebook’s latest updates?
- What content marketing questions do you have for Rich Brooks?
- What are your social media plans for 2013?
Amazon Adds Facebook-Enabled Gift Suggestions: You can link Amazon’s new Friends & Family Gifting feature to your Facebook account to discover gift ideas for friends based on their Facebook likes.
You can use Amazon's Friends & Family Gifting feature for better gift ideas for your Facebook friends.
YouTube Gets a New Look: This new design focuses on helping you subscribe to and watch channels on YouTube. YouTube is taking the next step in their latest design by “bringing your subscription-filled Guide with you across both the site and all devices, as your best source of what to watch on YouTube.”
You can now access your YouTube Subscription Guide across all of your devices.
Google Maps Is Now Available for iPhone: Google Maps is “rolling out across the world in the Apple App Store. It’s designed from the ground up to combine the comprehensiveness and accuracy of Google Maps with an interface that makes finding what you’re looking for faster and easier.” This intuitive mobile mapping experience has made this a popular app.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEz1sSKCpIc
Pinterest Builds a Dedicated Spam Team: This new Pinterest team is “hard at work investigating reports and building systems that detect, remove and prevent spam.”
You can use Pinterest's blocking and reporting features to help stop spam.
Foursquare Adds Events for Businesses: You can “add events, like a trivia tournament or open mic night, to Foursquare listings you manage.” People will see these events when they’re deciding where to go, when they check into your business and when they look at their check-in history.
You can add your own event for your business on Foursquare.
Foursquare’s Android Update Gives You More Information: “Foursquare now shows you the most important stuff up front, like the rating, the address and things like hours, the menu and a phone number. And there are big, swipeable photos at the top to help you get a sense of what it’s like.”
Foursquare gives you "all the information you need to help you make your decision."
Facebook Announces the Preferred Marketing Developer Center: “Since launching last April, the Preferred Marketing Developer (PMD) program has brought developers to the right clients and made it possible for any brand or company to build comprehensive Facebook campaigns and presences.” This new PMD Center is to help marketers “easily find the companies they need to build enterprise tools and apps—all in one place.”
Facebook's new PMD Center makes it easier for marketers to get started doing business with Facebook's Preferred Marketing Developers.
Bit.ly iPhone App Gets More Features: With these new features, you now have “easy access to your bitmarks and bundles wherever you are.”
"You can now see click counts for your links directly from bitmarks list, giving you the chance to check your stats in seconds while out and about."
Scoop.it Unveils Newly Redesigned Platform: The content curation tool Scoop.it’s new design now includes an Insight feature that “allows a user to quickly enrich and personalize any article, video or image they post to their network with personal commentary and unique perspective.”
You can now easily share your own insights as you share articles from others on Scoop.it.
Flickr Gets New Navigation Bar and Explore Page: These new features make browsing Flickr faster and easier “so you can quickly get to the photos you love.” There’s also an updated Flickr app for iPhone.
Flickr's new nav bar provides a simpler and cleaner experience.
Buffer Gets a New Web and Mobile Interface: This popular social media management platform gets a brand-new web app and iPhone app to further help social media marketers.
The new Buffer features are "more tailored to manage and learn about your social sharing."
LinkedIn Announces 12 Best LinkedIn Company Pages: Here are some “great examples of how businesses and organizations are using their LinkedIn Company Page to showcase their brand and connect with their target audience in a meaningful way.”
Here are updates on other recent news items:
New Twitter Profiles Are Now Live for Everyone: The new Twitter profiles launched a few months ago were originally optional. Today all profiles automatically have the new look on Twitter.com. If you didn’t adopt the new design when it first came out, you might want to see how yours looks now.
Here’s our new cartoon video on how to dress up your profile with photos and images: youtube.com/watch?v=uCE3w0… Give it a go!
— Twitter (@twitter) November 9, 2012
Facebook Gifts Now Available to Everyone in U.S.: Facebook Gifts started rolling out a while ago and is now available to everyone in the U.S.
And don’t miss this:
Social Media Marketing World is Social Media Examiner’s latest mega-conference—taking place at the waterfront San Diego Marriott Marquis & Marina in San Diego, California on April 7-9, 2013.
As you’d expect, Social Media Examiner recruited the biggest and best names in the world of social media marketing for this conference. Only the best for you! Be sure to check it out.
Watch this video to get a quick overview of Social Media Marketing World.
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Instagram Web Profiles: This Week in Social Media
Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news.
To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.
What’s New This Week?
Instagram Announces Web Profiles: The popular mobile app Instagram now has web-based profiles. “Your web profile features a selection of your recently shared photographs just above your profile photo and bio, giving others a snapshot of the photos you share on Instagram. In addition, you can follow users, comment and like photos and edit your profile easily and directly from the web.”
Instagram users have a new way to share their photos and interact with their community on Instagram.
Pinterest Rolls Out Secret Boards: Pinterest is rolling out a test that enables anyone to create three secret boards. “You can use secret boards to keep track of holiday gifts, plan a special event or work on a project you aren’t yet ready to share with the rest of the world.”
"You can keep your secret boards to yourself or invite family and friends to pin with you."
Discussion From Our Networking Clubs: Thousands of social media marketers and small business owners are asking questions and helping others in our free Networking Clubs. Here are a few interesting discussions worth highlighting:
- How much exactly do Facebook ads cost?
- Check out the latest blog review: The Real Supermum
- Get your “in real life” networking question answered with Ambassador Mike Bruny
Foursquare Explore Locations Get Scores: “Now when you search for somewhere to go in Explore, you’ll see a score from 1 to 10 next to the name of a place.”
Foursquare scores are determined by "using the same Foursquare magic that powers Explore."
Foursquare Check-Ins Extend Their Reach: “You can now mention Facebook friends who aren’t on Foursquare in your check-ins.”
"Just tap the add friend icon when you're checking in and scroll down to find them."
Google+ Rolls Out New Community Controls: You now have “more options when reporting bad posts, comments, profiles or photos.” And there are more control options in Google+ Hangouts.
These new community control options will help keep Google+ safe and secure.
Twitter Offers More Transparency in Processing Copyright Reports: Twitter has improved its copyright policy on responding to copyright infringement.
We now offer more #transparency in processing copyright reports by withholding Tweets, not removing. Learn more: support.twitter.com/articles/15795.
— Jeremy K. (@jer) November 3, 2012
Facebook Updates iOS App With Gifts: “Users in the U.S. who already have access to Facebook Gifts will now be able to browse and send gifts to friends either by visiting a friend’s profile or the Events section of the app.”
Facebook Gifts are now available on the new Facebook app.
Tumblr Releases New iPhone App: This new iPhone app is faster and has a more responsive Tumblr Dashboard.
The new Tumblr iPhone app has new notification previews and a variety of new features.
Here’s an interesting tool worth noting:
CheckinSave: A social commerce app that allows you to check in via all of your favorite social networks at once, and earn points for doing so.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2wIulM-tiA
And don’t miss this:
Social Media Marketing World is Social Media Examiner’s latest mega-conference—taking place at the waterfront San Diego Marriott Marquis & Marina in San Diego, California on April 7-9, 2013.
As you’d expect, Social Media Examiner recruited the biggest and best names in the world of social media marketing for this conference. Only the best for you! Be sure to check it out.
What do you think? Please share your comments below.
New Twitter Profiles: This Week in Social Media
Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news.
To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.
What’s New This Week?
Twitter Rolls Out New Profiles: You can now “upload an all-new header photo on mobile apps for iPad, iPhone and Android or twitter.com, and the same image will appear whenever anyone views your profile on the web or these apps.” Apple iPad users also have a new Twitter app.
"While the header photo keeps your profile simple and consistent on iPhone, iPad and Android, you will also still have an additional photo—a background photo—on twitter.com."
Facebook Offers Now Available Globally: Facebook Offers was released to a limited basis earlier this year. From now on “businesses with more than 400 fans can create online Offers directly from their Facebook Pages.” Businesses will be charged at least $5 per Offers post.
"All businesses—from large brands to local retailers— can use Offers to drive sales, traffic and reach in news feed."
Discussion From Our Networking Clubs: Thousands of social media marketers and small business owners are asking questions and helping others in our free Networking Clubs. Here are a few interesting discussions worth highlighting:
- Facebook guest expert John Haydon discusses Facebook traffic and likes
- Guest expert Stephanie Sammons talks LinkedIn
- Blog review: To Start Blogging
Google+ Improves Hangouts: The latest improvements to Google+ Hangouts include more communication around public invites, the ability to block people and create an 18 years old and above Hangout.
You can now block people from your Google+ Hangout.
LinkedIn Announces Board Connect for Non-Profits: LinkedIn Board Connect is a program to help non-profit leaders find high-quality professionals to join their boards.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8eAbTZes24
Groupon Launches Payments: “Groupon Payments is now available to all Groupon merchants in the U.S.! Built into the latest version of the Groupon Merchants app for the iPhone and iPod Touch, Groupon Payments facilitates credit card transactions for any Groupon merchant.”
"In addition to slashing transaction fees, Groupon Payments offers services that most of the traditional processors don't."
StumbleUpon Users Get a New App for iPhone and iPad: The new StumbleUpon app is “more intuitive and more about you, so you can discover great images, videos, games, recipes and more, however you want, wherever you want.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpF6ctqKXAw
Facebook to Roll Out Email- and Phone Number–Based Ad Targeting: “Facebook will be launching new features next week that allow advertisers to target their ads to customers based on contact information that the advertiser has already collected.”
Here’s an interesting social media tool worth noting:
Chumkee: A social sharing app with a 30-second video sharing component.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnWQ5c-HN60
And don’t miss this:
Social Media Examiner presents Facebook Success Summit 2012 (online conference).
Join 20 Facebook experts at Social Media Examiner’s big online conference! Go here to learn more.
What do you think? Please share your comments below.
Google+ Tools for Business: This Week in Social Media
Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news.
To help you stay up-to-date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.
What’s New This Week?
Google+ Launches Tools for Business: Google is launching an initial set of Google+ features designed specifically for business. These new tools work through the Google Apps feature. “During this preview period, organizations that have gone Google will be able to use the business features of Google+ for free through the end of 2013.”
Google+ tools for business include Restricted Updates, which can only be seen by other users in your organization.
Twitter Launches Twitter Certified Products Program: To make it easier for businesses to find the right tools, Twitter is launching the Twitter Certified Products Program with a select group of Twitter developers.
Twitter developers can use these three categories of Certified Products.
Discussion From Our Networking Clubs: Thousands of social media marketers and small business owners are asking questions and helping others in our free Networking Clubs. Here are a few interesting discussions worth highlighting:
- Feedback on Twitter advertising
- Networking Club Blog Review of Creative Brew
- Facebook Guest Expert Amy Porterfield answers questions on Facebook engagement
LinkedIn Ads Go Global: LinkedIn Ads are now available in 17 new languages. LinkedIn’s goal is to expand languages across the 200 countries where they operate.
You can now create LinkedIn Ads in other languages.
Important social media update currently rolling out:
Facebook Now Rolling Out Additional Page Post Targeting Options: Facebook marketers take note: this new feature, announced earlier this month, is currently rolling out. Facebook Page admins now have a selection to choose from to target updates posted on their Facebook Page wall.
Our Facebook page admins can now target updates posted on the Social Media Examiner Facebook page.
Here are a few useful social media tools worth noting:
HubSpot Launches HubSpot 3: The new HubSpot 3 is integrated all-in-one marketing software with a whole suite of brand-new tools, including Calls-to-Action, Social Contacts and Landing Pages.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLAINmuJwI0
StatusPeople’s Fake Twitter Follower Check: A free tool to find out how many fake followers and friends you have on Twitter.
Check out your score with this tool from StatusPeople.
I Am CC: A tool to release your Instagram photos with a Creative Commons licence.
With I Am CC, you give others the right to use your Instagram photos.
And don’t miss this:
Social Media Examiner presents Facebook Success Summit 2012 (online conference).
Join 20 Facebook experts at Social Media Examiner’s big online conference! Go here to learn more.
What do you think? Please share your comments below.
LinkedIn Changes: This Week in Social Media
Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up-to-date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.
What’s New This Week?
LinkedIn Today Gets New Social Features: Users can now add comments and “likes” to articles on LinkedIn Today. And the new “Trending in Your Network” tab filters all of the professional news articles on LinkedIn Today and gives you the most popular ones in your professional network.
LinkedIn is rolling out a new tab called "Trending in Your Network."
LinkedIn Introduces a New Homepage: LinkedIn has “started to roll out a simpler and easier way to navigate Homepage experience that offers quick access to the relevant information and updates that help you be great at your job.”
"This newly redesigned Homepage is rolling out to all members over the next few weeks."
Discussion From Our Networking Clubs: Thousands of social media marketers and small business owners are asking questions and helping others in our free Networking Clubs. Here are a few interesting discussions worth highlighting:
- Why isn’t social media working for my business?
- What makes you subscribe?
- What are your favorite ways to keep up with Facebook?
Google Announces Google Takeout for Google+ Users With Multiple Accounts: Google Takeout allows Google+ users with multiple accounts to transfer their Google+ circles and other connections between accounts. There’s a 7-day waiting period after you request the transfer during which you can cancel the transfer. Read how it works first.
"This tool transfers your Google+ circles and connections from a 'source' account to a 'destination' account."
Facebook Renovates its Small-Business Site: The updated Facebook for Business guide provides “more in-depth tips and tutorials for smaller and midsized businesses that advertise through Facebook.”
Check out the latest information and best practices for your Facebook marketing.
Visual.ly Launches Social Network for Data Visualization: Visual.ly, the platform for creating, exploring and sharing infographics, unveiled “a revamped website with new community features that allow people to ‘like,’ share and follow their favorite topics, users or designers.”
The 32,000 designers who currently use Visual.ly also get improved profiles to enable them to promote their designs and connect directly with brands and publishers looking to commission infographics.
Foursquare Introduces Local Updates for Businesses: “Starting today, you’ll start seeing updates in your Friends tab from the places where you’re a loyal customer.”
"Keep up with news from places you frequent."
Swifter Navigation for TweetDeck: The latest updates make it easier for you to browse and manage your columns on this social media management tool. This faster version of TweetDeck is available now at tweetdeck.com, where you can download TweetDeck for Mac and Windows, access the Chrome app or sign in to web.tweetdeck.com.
Now on TweetDeck, "your columns are arranged in one continuous horizontal row, allowing you to navigate smoothly left and right with the scrollbar."
Here’s a social media study worth noting:
Burson-Marsteller Global Social Media Check-Up 2012:
Here are a couple of useful social media tools worth noting:
Social Buzz Club: This is a network social media influencers who share each other’s content on the social networks driving more traffic, visibility and profits.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIbIXjby5L4
Airtime: A Facebook app to video chat with your friends on any platform. No download required, just login with Facebook and start video chatting with your friends immediately, right in your browser.
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Google+ Events: This Week in Social Media
Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up-to-date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.
What’s New This Week?
Google Introduces Google+ Events: Google+ Events are “for all the moments that matter—before, during and after.” Google+ Events will sync with Calendar integration. You can also share photos in real time with Party Mode, and after the event you can see everyone’s pictures in one place in chronological order and with comments.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si9Li4ehv74
New Apple Podcasts App Available: The Podcasts app is the easiest way to discover, subscribe to and play your favorite podcasts on Apple mobile devices.
Explore free audio and video podcasts from the Podcasts Catalog, and play the most popular podcasts, organized for you by topic, with the new Top Stations feature.
Discussion From Our Networking Clubs: Thousands of social media marketers and small business owners are asking questions and helping others in our free Networking Clubs. Here are a few interesting discussions worth highlighting:
- What’s your favorite Facebook app?
- Can podcasting grow your business?
- What do you think about Facebook’s recent integration with WordPress blogs?
Google +1 Recommendations Launch Across the Web: Google+ is “rolling out a new feature of the +1 button in platform preview: when users hover over a +1 button, they will see recommendations for other great content on your site.”
"See related apps and recommendations from friends."
It’s Easier for Facebook Admins to Change Page URLs: Facebook page admins used to have to submit a request to change their Facebook page username (http://www.facebook.com/username), but page admins can now change usernames themselves.
It's easy to change your Facebook page username now.
Hookflash Brings Video Calling to Your LinkedIn Network: Hookflash for iPad is integrated with LinkedIn. “Hookflash helps professionals communicate effectively with their peers and colleagues with video, voice and messaging on the iPad.”
"Simply tap the LinkedIn contact you want to reach on Hookflash and instantly chat with them (video, voice and text)."
Here are a couple of useful social media tools worth noting:
Gripevine: a simple platform where annoyed customers can post their gripes on the site.
An automated system immediately informs the targeted company that a gripe exists to offer them a chance to solve the problem.
Wishpond Social Offers: a self-serve application that puts businesses in total control of their own limited-time offers on Facebook and their website.
YYoga used Wishpond Social Offers and generated 1000 participants in their offer in less than 48 hours.
And don’t miss this:
Want to start a business blog? 
Starting July 10! Social Media Examiner presents Blogging Fundamentals for Business (an online business-building workshop). Join Michael Stelzner for Social Media Examiner’s online workshop! Go here to learn more.
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Facebook Adds Admin Roles: This Week in Social Media
Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up-to-date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.
What’s New This Week?
Facebook Gives Granularity to Page Admin Roles: Businesses with Facebook Pages can now set five different roles for their admins: Manager, Content Creator, Moderator, Advertiser and Insights Analyst. This is a useful tool for Facebook managers.
Businesses on Facebook can now grant page admins varying degrees of permissions, depending on their role.
Facebook Adds Post Scheduling: You can now schedule posts directly on your Facebook Page. ”You can prepare a post and schedule it to appear later by adding a date and time in the future before you post it.”
"You can schedule a post up to 6 months in advance in 15-minute intervals," and you can also "choose a date in the past" and your post will appear at the appropriate place on your Page's Timeline.
Discussion From Our Networking Clubs: Thousands of social media marketers and small business owners are asking questions and helping others in our free Networking Clubs. Here are a few interesting discussions worth highlighting:
- How will the switch to Google+ Local impact your business?
- Has anyone tried the new Facebook Promoted Posts?
- Share your comments on ghost writing for blogs.
Facebook Rolls Out Promoted Posts for Facebook Pages: “Promoted posts are a simple way to reach more of the people who like your Page and their friends.” Promoted Posts give your updates more exposure on Facebook.
To promote a post, select the Promote button after creating an update on your Page.
Google+ Local Replaces Google Places: “Each place you see in Google+ Local will now be scored using Zagat’s 30-point scale, which tells you all about the various aspects of a place so you can make the best decisions.” Google Place pages have been automatically converted into Google+ Local pages. This is Google’s first step beyond Google Places.
Google+ users can see the different scores others give this restaurant.
Bit.ly Gets New Look: The new design features “make it easier and faster to find and share interesting stuff.” Things have moved around a bit, so if you’re looking for something specific, check their Knowledge Base for directions.
Check out Bit.ly's new bookmarking feature, the Bitmark.
Pinterest Rival Fancy Brings Social Commerce to iPhone: The Fancy iPhone app allows people to browse the cool products shared on Fancy and also purchase items directly through their mobile devices.
Fancy has nearly one million users who press the Fancy button 3 million times every week.
Enhancer Adds Music to Vimeo Videos: Vimeo’s new Enhancer tool makes it easy for users to find and add music to their videos. The music catalog “has tracks in tons of genres, with lots for free.”
Here are a couple of social media tools worth noting:
Network Updater: A free social network alert service that sends you email alerts for any changes or updates from the Twitter and Facebook friends you select.
Network Updater ensures you don't miss the news from the people who matter most to you.
Curalate: A paid monitoring and analytics Pinterest tool for both the activity on your Pinterest account and all of the pinning activity from your own website.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8iVa5gq2lI
What social media news caught your interest this week? Please share your comments below.
Facebook Threaded Comments: This Week in Social Media