Facebook Gift Cards: 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 Introduces Gift Cards: Facebook Card gifts are rolling out gradually in the U.S. You’ll be able to give your friends “gifts to Jamba Juice, Olive Garden, Sephora and Target all on one reusable gift card from Facebook.” After you select a gift for a friend on Facebook and complete your purchase, your friend will be notified immediately and will then receive the Facebook Card in the mail.
"Facebook Cards are reusable. After you've received a card, the next time you get a Facebook Card gift, it will instantly be added to your existing card."
Top 10 Social Media Blogs: The 2013 Winners!
Are you looking for some good blogs to read? Look no further!
Our fourth-annual social media blog contest generated over 750 nominations.
Our panel of social media experts carefully reviewed the nominees and finalists, analyzing the quality of their content, the frequency of posts and reader involvement (among other things).
With that in mind, here are 10 blogs that need to be at the top of your reading list.
#1: Social Fresh
Social Fresh, the brainchild of Jason Keath, provides quality social media content from a community of bloggers.
Social Fresh is an excellent blog with an engaging editorial calendar.
Twitter Mobile Video: 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 Adds Mobile Video Capabilitity: Twitter introduces Vine, “a mobile service that lets you capture and share short looping videos. Like Tweets, the brevity of videos on Vine (6 seconds or less) inspires creativity.” You can find out more about this standalone app here. Click the video to pause it.
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— James Buckhouse (@buckhouse) January 24, 2013
Facebook Graph Search: 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 Introduces Graph Search Beta: This new Facebook feature gives people the tools to “map out their relationships with the people and things they care about.” Facebook calls this map the graph. Graph Search is a new way for you to find people, photos, places and interests that are most relevant to you on Facebook, and is currently available in beta with a limited preview.
Top 10 Social Media Blog Finalists 2013: This Week in Social Media
Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news.
Finalists: Top 10 Social Media Blogs 2012
We received over 750 nominations for our fourth-annual Top 10 Social Media Blogs contest (the blogosphere’s biggest contest for social media blogs).
The list of 24 finalists is pretty impressive! Take a look for yourself below.
The judges: Our judges include Gini Dietrich (co-author, Marketing in the Round, founder and CEO of Arment Dietrich), Marcus Sheridan (co-owner of River Pools, founder of The Sales Lion) and Michael Stelzner (author, Launch, CEO of Social Media Examiner and host of the Social Media Marketing podcast). They are currently finishing up their reviews of these sites.
Here are the finalists (in alphabetical order):
- 60 Second Marketer
- Bloggers Make Money
- Boom Social
- Content Marketing Cardiology
- Danny Brown
- Heidi Cohen
- Jeff Bullas
- Jon Loomer
- Jason Cruz
- Lighthouse Insights
- LKR Social Media
- Pushing Social
- Razor Social
- Social Barrel
- Social Fresh
- Social Media Revolver
- Social Mediopolis
- Social Samosa
- Social Solutions Collective
- Social Strand Media
- Socially Sorted
- Spider Working
- Top Dog Social Media
- Viral Blog
Google+ Pages Can Engage Anyone: 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+ Pages Can Now Interact With Users Who Haven’t Circled Them: A Google+ Page “can now +1, share, comment and plus mention personal profiles that have not circled them.”
Google+ Page admins will be happy with this latest update, which provides more networking options.
21 Social Media Predictions for 2013 From the Pros
Are you wondering what 2013 might look like for social media marketing?
If the changes seen in 2012 are an indicator, there will be a lot more change in 2013.
To get a grip on what the near future may look like, we tapped the knowledge of 21 social media pros.
Here’s what they had to say.
And if you’re curious, here were the 2012 predictions.
#1: Ecommerce and Social Media Grow Together
Viveka Von Rosen
I don’t know about the world in general, but I am fascinated with the movement of ecommerce and predict that it will continue to trend in 2013.
When I asked my personal ecommerce expert Gideon Lask (CEO and founder of BuyaPowa), he said one huge trend in ecommerce will be the continued empowerment of the consumer.
“No one telling the shopper what to buy, when to shop and how much to pay. Too many retailers are failing by not realizing that consumers want to do it on their terms. Time to give them the key to the car. Empower them and you’ll win loyalty.”
