Google+ Pages Can Engage Anyone: 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?
Google+ Pages Can Now Interact With Users Who Haven’t Circled Them: A Google+ Page “can now +1, share, comment and plus mention personal profiles that have not circled them.”
Google+ Page admins will be happy with this latest update, which provides more networking options.
Facebook Poke for Mobile: 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 Poke For Mobile: Facebook Poke is “an iPhone app that makes it fun and easy to say hello to friends wherever you are.”
The poke feature, part of Facebook since 2004, is now available on mobile.
Facebook Nearby: This Week in Social Media
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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 Nearby: Facebook’s new Nearby for iOS and Android apps makes it easy to discover new places your friends like. This provides more reasons for local businesses to build a Facebook Page and offers users an alternative to Foursquare.
"From the app menu, open the tab to find local spots your friends have recommended, checked into or liked."
Google+ Introduces Communities: This Week in Social Media
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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+ Rolls Out Communities: With this new feature, you can create public or private membership communities with discussion threads and integration with other Google+ features such as Hangouts. ”With Google+ Communities there’s now a gathering place for your passions.” Mobile functionality for Google+ Communities is coming soon.
LinkedIn Releases 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?
LinkedIn Introduces New Ads API: This new program will “empower developers to build custom tools and solutions specifically to help social marketers meet their goals.” LinkedIn’s Ads API program is only available to a select group of partners.
LinkedIn users can expect more useful advertising tools in the future.
Instagram Badges: This Week in Social Media
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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 Launches Embeddable Badges: These new Instagram badges can “help you link to and promote your Instagram web profile.” Businesses now have a way to promote their Instagram profiles online.
"Instagram badges are available in a range of sizes and can be added to your website, blog or anywhere that you want to link to your Instagram web profile."
Pinterest Business Accounts: 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 Rolls Out Business Accounts: Pinterest now offers a set of free tools and resources for businesses. There are new terms of service for businesses. To set up your Pinterest business account, go here.
You can now use Pinterest for business.
