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?
SlideShare Introduces Send Tracker for Email Tracking: “With SlideShare's new Send Tracker, a new content analytics tool for SlideShare Pro, you can now send content to a potential customer, see when they opened it, how they engaged with it and gain better insights on which parts resonated most.”
Twitter Releases New Mobile Study: “Today, mobile is often the primary way people around the globe experience Twitter.” Twitter worked with Compete to share the latest research on Twitter mobile users.
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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WordPress iOS App Update Introduces Notifications: WordPress iOS app users now have “push notifications for comments, followers, likes, posts and more.”
Foursquare Update Makes it Easier to Share With Friends: “When you tweet, post to Facebook, email or text about a place with friends who don't have Foursquare on their phones, they'll be linked to a shiny new page showing all the most important info about it.”
Here's a useful infographic to note:
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