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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 Launches Verified Pages and Profiles: The new verified Pages are “to help people find the authentic accounts of celebrities and other high-profile people and businesses on Facebook.” This is also rolling out to profiles as well.
Quora Launches Full-Text Mobile Search: Both the iPhone and Android for Quora apps will now “offer the same full-text, keyword-based search capability that you can use on the computer.”
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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