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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 Photo Tagging for Pages: “For now, only Pages within the Brands & Products or People categories brands, can be tagged in photos.” But Facebook is looking to “expand this functionality to more Page categories over time.”
Google Now Takes Photographs Inside Businesses to Add to Google Places: “Google photographers are currently visiting businesses in select cities in the US, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. Any business can apply for a photo shoot, and demand will help us decide where to send our photographers next.”
Lijit Goes After Google With New Analytics Dashboard: This new tool provides “more comprehensive audience analytics to help publishers better understand their readers and monetize their site. Publishers who take advantage of Lijit’s free audience analytics tool receive a detailed dashboard with trending intent information and statistics that are unavailable elsewhere, such as popular search terms, social referral traffic, and audience demographics.”
Tumblr Releases “Share on Tumblr” Button for Publishers: These buttons are similar to the Facebook and Twitter buttons you can put on your website. But the Tumblr button also gives you “complete control over how your content appears when shared on Tumblr” and you can put in the footer or set it to hover over paragraphs. These are options not currently available on other social share buttons.
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Popular Commenting System Disqus Adds Tagging Option: Now you can use the “@” symbol to tag connections as you comment on Disqus. The people you tag will get an email if they have a Disqus account, or a message on Twitter linking back to your comment.
Facebook Publishes a Best Practice Guide for Marketing on Facebook: You can download it here.
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