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. Â This is a useful tool for Facebook managers.
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.”
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:
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- How will the switch to Google+ Local impact your business?
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- Has anyone tried the new Facebook Promoted Posts?
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- 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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.”
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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.
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.
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