Pinterest Analytics: 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?
Pinterest Launches Free Web Analytics: Pinterest Web Analytics ”give site owners insights into how people are interacting with pins that originate from their websites.”
"If you have a verified website, you'll get information about how many people have pinned from your site, how many people have seen these pins and how many people visited your site from Pinterest."
Facebook News Feed Changes: 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 New Look for News Feed: The “new version of Facebook designed to reduce clutter and focus more on stories from the people you care about.” The changes are rolling out slowly and include new feeds and Facebook will now have the same look and feel on mobile, tablet and web. You can join the waiting list here.
Twitter Ads API: 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 Officially Launches Their Ads API: “What this means is that as marketers, you’ll soon have the ability to work with Twitter’s initial set of Ads API partners to manage Twitter Ad campaigns—and integrate them into your existing cross-channel advertising strategies.”
Twitter’s Ads API is here: What it means for marketers adage.com/u/Y18ojb via @lazerow @adage
— Twitter Advertising (@TwitterAds) February 20, 2013
SlideShare Email Tracking: 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?
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.”
Instagram Expands to Desktops: 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 Feed for PCs: Instagram has gone beyond its mobile-only interface and now allows you to browse Instagram feeds from the desktop – just like you do on your mobile device. Go to instagram.com and log into your account to give it a try.
"Your Instagram feed on the web functions much like it does on your mobile phone. You can browse through the latest photos of people whom you follow with updates as people post new photos."
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
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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
