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    More Social Networking Options: This Week in Social Media

    by Cindy King / May 14, 2011

    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 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.”

    facebook photo tagging
    This new photo tagging feature extends networking and advertising options for Facebook Pages.

    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.”

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    Check out Lijit’s free audience analytics tool.

    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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    tumblr buttons
    You can select Tumblr buttons for your content to appear as a Link, Pull Quote, Photo or Video Embed.

    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.

    disqus mentions
    This is an easy way to invite people to conversations in comments using Disqus.

    Facebook Publishes a Best Practice Guide for Marketing on Facebook: You can download it here.

    facebook marketing guide
    This Facebook marketing guide is also useful for your overall social media marketing.

    Here's another social media tool worth a look.

    Tweeshot: This tool is easy to use and lets you take full-length and full-width screenshots of any website and share them across your favorite social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Picasa) and via email.

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    Tweeshot also allows you to edit the size, crop the images and leave comments before sharing them.

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    What social media news caught your interest this week? Please share your comments below.

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    About the authorCindy King

    Cindy King is the director of editorial for Social Media Examiner. She spent 25 years abroad in international business development and then built her own international business using social business networking.
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