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    Pinterest Business Accounts: This Week in Social Media

    by Cindy King / November 17, 2012

    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?

    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.

    pinterest business account
    You can now use Pinterest for business.

    LinkedIn Enables Profile Editing on Mobile: LinkedIn makes it possible for mobile professionals to edit their profiles on the go.  “Now you can update your profile with a new headline, add recent skills or add a new position so your professional identity is always up to date.”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ArBdKMoPz0

    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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    YouTube Makes it Easier to Watch Videos on TV: There's a YouTube app update for Android and Google TV that “automatically pairs your devices on the same WiFi. Just find a video on your YouTube app for Android—like the latest video from GoPro or H+ The Digital Series—click the TV icon that appears and the video will play instantly on your Google TV.”

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    This new YouTube on TV feature is "like a remote control—you can pause, scroll or skip to the next video with your mobile device as it plays on your TV."

    Facebook Launches Social Jobs Partnership Application: The Social Jobs Partnership (SJP) unveiled a Facebook app to “make it easier for people on Facebook to find and share employment opportunities.”

    facebook job app
    "The new SJP app is a central location where recruiters can share open positions with the Facebook community sorted by industry, location and skills."

    Here's upcoming news to watch:

    Facebook Now Testing “Ranked Comments” on Business Pages: Currently only a few people have this feature. “Ranked Comments” means that the comments with the most engagement will float to the top.

    Facebook Adds Sources of Friendship Under Users' Friends Tab: You can expect to see “more information under the Friends tab on users' timelines, indicating how many of the user's friends were recently added, from high school, from college or from work.”

    Here's an interesting tool worth noting:

    Leaderboarded: A tool for companies to create their own online leaderboards powered by social data.

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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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