8 Social Media News Items You Need to Know
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 Beats Google: The social media giant is now the top source of U.S. web traffic, according to HitWise. Find out more about these stats and how Facebook achieved this here.
Reddit Reports Substantial Growth in 2010: Reddit benefited from the decline of Digg last year and made improvements that resonate well with its users. Is Reddit part of your social bookmarking plan?
Reddit's monthly pageviews tripled last year.
5 Ways to Make Video a Social Experience
Video is very hot and there’s a strong social media connection. Are you using video to promote your business? Do you know the best ways to leverage this growing form of content?
What follows are 5 ways you can tap into the exploding video frontier—and achieve many social media advantages.
Why Video Now?
The demand for video is already proven: U.S. audiences viewed nearly 28 billion online videos in November 2009 alone.
The demand for video in a social setting is clearly growing: Nielsen reports that online video viewing on social networking sites was up 98% in 2009. 
