Facebook App Chat Heads: 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 Updates iPhone App With Chat Heads and Stickers: “Now you can keep chatting even when you’re doing other stuff on Facebook, like checking your news feed. Tap Chat Heads to reply, drag them around or flick them down to close.” And you can also add stickers to your messages.
The Facebook iPhone app's new Chat Heads make it easy to follow chat conversations on the go.
Theft: 9 Ways to Protect Yourself From Losing Your Data
Do you rely on your computer for business?
Is your computer and data secure?
To learn more about ways to protect yourself and your business, this episode of the Social Media Marketing podcast gives you insight into the subject.
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The Social Media Marketing podcast is a show from Social Media Examiner.
It’s designed to help busy marketers and business owners discover what works with social media marketing.
The show format is on-demand talk radio (also known as podcasting).
In this episode, you’ll learn different ways to protect your data and make sure your business is back up and running very quickly if you were ever to lose it.
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How to Boost Engagement on Your LinkedIn Company Page
Are you leveraging your LinkedIn Company Page as best you can?
In a recent LinkedIn study, 50% of current company followers stated they are more likely to purchase products and services from a business they engage with on LinkedIn.
This means that an active LinkedIn presence could help your business. And you’ll likely want to improve engagement on LinkedIn.
Here are five simple ways to boost engagement with your LinkedIn followers.
#1: Leverage LinkedIn Groups to Find Engaging Content for Company Followers
Aside from studying what your competitors are doing on LinkedIn, you should spend time in the groups where your target market is engaging. You’ll want to find out what interests them there.
5 Mobile Video Apps to Boost Online Engagement
Do you want to use videos to market your business?
Are you wondering if there are simple mobile apps to make this possible?
In this article I’ll review five mobile video apps and share how they can boost your online engagement.
Why Mobile Video?
Vine, Twitter’s mobile video app, has business and marketing professionals considering the numerous ways video apps can be used to increase engagement.
Ekaterina Walter, social innovator at Intel and author of Think Like Zuck, recently predicted that “2013 will be the year of visual marketing”. Walter based this prediction, in part, on the fact that “…visuals and video done right are highly effective in cutting through the noise.”
This prediction has already proven true with a burst of new video apps and upgrades hitting the market. And some of these offer unique opportunities for savvy marketers.
9 Ways to Become a Better Facebook Community Manager
Would you like to have a thriving Facebook community?
Are you looking for tips to improve your community?
In this article I’ll share 9 tips to improve your Facebook community.
#1: Know Your Voice
Branding is important on social media. Your company should have a “voice” that matches your brand and your company philosophy.
Are you more serious or do you add a little bit of snark in your posts? Do you stick mostly to business or can you be off the wall? Do you like to stir things up or do you remain neutral?
If you are a one-person operation, these decisions may be easy. But if you have multiple employees and possibly multiple people posting to the Facebook Page, you want to have the “voice of the company” communicated clearly to the people who will be managing your Facebook Page.
The voice of the company is important in how comments and community feedback are handled, as well as the day-to-day posting. Consistency in your voice will help your community know what to expect.
ModCloth has an offbeat, humorous voice that engages their audience.
3 Social Media Tools That Improve the Sales Cycle
Do you want more leads from your social efforts?
Did you know there are great social media tools that make the sales process easier?
In this article, I’ll review 3 tools to help you get the information you need to generate revenue from your social media activity.
#1: Nimble—Nurture Your Relationships and Get Sales
Nimble is a social relationship manager. Through social media you can build a large network of people whom you connect with, but there is likely to be a smaller group of key people who are potential advocates, influencers or customers for your product or service.
The development of relationships in social media is very important for your business.
Facebook Adds Feelings and Actions: 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 Adds “What You’re Doing” Status Updates: Facebook users “can express what they’re watching, reading, listening to, eating, drinking or how they’re feeling in status updates.” These new updates are rolling out in the U.S. in the coming weeks.
"These updates, and the stories added to your timeline, respect the privacy settings you choose for your post."
