LinkedIn Content Sharing: This Week in Social Media

social media researchWelcome 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?

LinkedIn Platform Further Enables Professional Content Sharing: LinkedIn has worked closely with developers to improve the signup with LinkedIn experience and make it easier to share content on LinkedIn.

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LinkedIn users will see more content shared on LinkedIn through these improved signup options.

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Facebook Recommendations Bar: This Week in Social Media

social media researchWelcome 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 the Recommendations Bar: The Recommendations Bar is a new social plugin that helps people find articles based on what their friends like and share from your site. “Recommendations are based on content that friends have explicitly liked and shared in your app or website.”

facebook recommendations bar

"As a person reads an article, a small pop-up surfaces at the bottom of the screen highlighting recommended articles and prompting them to like the page."

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LinkedIn Pages Allow Targeted Updates: This Week in Social Media

social media researchWelcome 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?

LinkedIn Targeted Status Updates Available to All Company Pages: You can now select a target audience for updates shared on your LinkedIn Company Page.  You can specify your target audience by company size, industry, job function, seniority, geography and whether they are employees of your company or not.  Targeted Status Updates were launched to select LinkedIn customers and are now available to all Company Pages.

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Facebook Mobile Payments: This Week in Social Media

social media researchWelcome 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 Simplifies Mobile Payments: Facebook has made it easier for developers to add payment options on mobile web apps. And marketers also now have the option of buying mobile-only Facebook ads.

facebook mobile payment

The new Facebook flow for mobile payments requires no typing and looks like this.

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Google Analytics Adds Social Reports: This Week in Social Media

social media researchWelcome 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 Analytics Adds a New Set of Social Reports: These new social reports “help you measure the impact of your social marketing initiatives and evaluate the effect social media has on your goals and ecommerce activities.”

google analytics social reports

"The four new reports aggregate key data points to help you see the complete picture of how social marketing and media affect your business."

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New Google+ Design: This Week in Social Media

social media researchWelcome 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+ Introduces a New Look and New Navigation: There’s a new Google+ interface. These design changes add more white space, make Google+ easier to use and pave the way for future updates.

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