by 
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 Enables Users to Add SlideShare to LinkedIn Profile: It’s now easier “for you to add your presentations directly from SlideShare to your LinkedIn profile, with just a click of a button.”
Pinterest Introduces New Follow Button: “The new Follow button will pop up a small dialog with a preview of your account’s latest pins—and your visitors won’t ever have to leave your website to follow you.”
LinkedIn Introduces New Connected App: “It helps you reach out to people in your network when it matters most, so you can keep your network active and warm.”
Getty Images Launches Redesigned iOS App: “Updated and easy-to-navigate iOS apps for both Getty Images and iStock by Getty Images feature an improved image search, curation and collaboration experience to help creative storytellers bring their ideas to life wherever they are.”
Put Google Analytics to Work for Your Business
Ever thought, "there's got to be a better way" when it comes to tracking your marketing activities? Are you forced to make decisions based on limited data? With the right training, you can use Google Analytics to measure all of your marketing efforts with certainty. You’ll stop the leaks in your ad spending, justify your marketing spend, gain the confidence you need to make better marketing decisions, and know what’s working at every step of the customer journey. Let the world's leading analytics pro show you the way. Check out our new Google Analytics for Marketers course from your friends at Social Media Examiner.
Here’s a cool social media tool worth checking out:
StepUp.io: This new tool allows you to “watch YouTube videos in bite-sized steps.”
Social Media Success Summit 2014 is a special online conference designed to help you master social media marketing (brought to you by Social Media Examiner).
Instructors include Jay Baer (author, Youtility), Mari Smith (co-author, Facebook Marketing), Michael Stelzner (author, Launch), Amy Porterfield (co-author, Facebook Marketing All-in-One for Dummies), Mark Schaefer (author, Social Media Explained), Nichole Kelly (author, How to Measure Social Media), Bryan Kramer (author, Human to Human), Neal Schaffer (author, Maximize Your Social), Lee Odden (author, Optimize), Viveka von Rosen (author, LinkedIn Marketing), Lynette Young (author, Google+ for Small Businesses), Stanford Smith (co-author, Born to Blog), Andrea Vahl (co-author, Facebook Marketing All-in-One for Dummies), Melonie Dodaro (author, The LinkedIn Code), Joe Pulizzi (author, Epic Content Marketing), Todd Wheatland (author, The Marketer’s Guide to SlideShare), John Lee Dumas (author, Podcast Launch), Jessica Gioglio (co-author, The Power of Visual Storytelling)—just to mention a few. Fully online. Click here to learn more.
What do you think? Will you benefit from SlideShare on LinkedIn? Have you found any cool new social media tools recently? Please share your comments below.
