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Google+ Creates Sign-in: This Week in Social Media
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.
Facebook should learn from all new Foursquare.
Social Network for Social Media Marketers: 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?
Social Network Launches for Social Media Industry: Social Media Examiner’s Networking Clubs just went public. “It’s a social water cooler for social media marketers,” says Michael Stelzner, CEO of Social Media Examiner. The free network has rich discussion and networking taking place. There are three active clubs: The Facebook Club, the Blogging Club and the Small Business Club.
Social Media Examiner launches Networking Clubs for social media marketers
Online Search Introduces Their Social Media Jobs Salary Guide: This is a “comprehensive look at the best job markets, the most in-demand job titles and salary ranges for social media professionals in the top 20 U.S. cities.”
Click through to check out the current social media job salaries.
Tumblr Introduces Highlighted Posts: Tumblr users can pay to have their posts featured on the Tumblr Dashboard.
"For one dollar, your post will stand out in the Dashboard with a customizable sticker to make sure your followers take notice!"
LinkedIn Announces a More Secure Browsing Experience: “LinkedIn now supports https for your browsing experience. This is currently an ‘opt in’ feature that will be rolled out gradually in the next coming weeks.”
On this Settings page you will also see a link to the https FAQ with more information about this feature.
Foursquare Improves “Explore” Search Feature: Foursquare’s Explore on the web features are now available on Explore for iPhone and Android.
The new mobile features include changing your location, filtering your recommendations and photos in your search results.
Here are a couple of social media tools worth noting:
Pholiofy: a Facebook Pages application that easily publishes your latest campaign, promotional coupons or branded messaging into your Facebook Page through WordPress.
Check out Pholiofy to publish your Pages on Facebook.
BuildChatter: a tool to build your Facebook app in minutes and without professional help.
Check out BuildChatter to build your own Facebook app.
And here’s another interesting infographic:
Check out the stats for Yammer, the free private social network for your company.
What social media news caught your interest this week? Please share your comments below.
Facebook App Integration: 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 Announces Tight Integration of 60 Apps to Timeline, More on the Way: Facebook now allows developers a tighter integration with Facebook’s Timeline. “More than 60 apps are immediately going live, including such favorites as Pinterest, eBay, Foodspotting, Airbnb and Foursquare.”
Check out the new apps to add to your Facebook Timeline.
Web Goes on Strike to Protest SOPA: Last Wednesday, many websites maintained a blackout in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), a bill currently in the U.S. congress. You can find out more about SOPA in the infographic and video below.
SOPA infographic from AmericanCensorship.org.
Foursquare’s Explore Feature Now on the Web: Explore helps you find interesting things nearby and your check-ins allow Foursquare to personalize recommendations for you.
Explore is powered by check-ins and Foursquare Tips.
Here are a few more interesting infographics:
Social Login and Social Plugins Increase Page Views: Gigya analyzed their data from 2011 to measure how their technology impacted their clients and they share the results in the infographic below.
"The results clearly show that on-site social technology brings real value to sites."
Integratio
Do you have social sharing buttons in your emails?
LinkedIn’s CardMunch App Reaches Two Million Cards: CardMunch is simple: “a quick camera capture of any business card using an iPhone enables professionals to digitize their collection of business cards, but more importantly get access to richer information about the person behind the card via their LinkedIn profile.”
Have you munched any cards?
HootSuite Reaches Three Million Users: This popular social media dashboard continues to grow, adding a million users in the last six months.
Do you use HootSuite?
And don’t miss this:
Social Media Examiner presents Small Business Success Summit 2011! (online conference starts in February)
Join 25 experts, including including John Jantsch (author, Duct Tape Marketing), Anita Campbell (founder, Small Business Trends), Michael Stelzner (founder, Social Media Examiner and author, Launch), Mari Smith (co-author, Facebook Marketing), Jesse Stay (author, Google+ for Dummies), Hollis Thomases (author, Twitter Marketing), David Siteman Garland (founder, “The Rise to the Top” and author, Faster, Smarter, Cheaper), Joe Pulizzi (founder, Content Marketing Institute and co-author, Get Content, Get Customers), Brian Clark (founder, Copyblogger Media), Lee Odden (founder, TopRank Online Marketing), Ramon Ray (founder, Small Biz Technology and author, Technology Solutions for Growing Businesses) and Lewis Howes (co-author, LinkedWorking)—just to mention a few (scroll down to see full list)! Go here to learn more.
What social media news caught your interest this week? Please share your comments below.
