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    Social Media for Business: This Week in Social Media

    by Cindy King / July 30, 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 Helps Businesses: Facebook announced a business resource center that makes it easier for marketers and advertisers to find the information they need to use Facebook.  This information used to be scattered across different locations and is now centralized through this page.

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    Use this Facebook for Business page to find everything you need to know about how Facebook can help your business.

    LinkedIn Gives Businesses an Easy Tool for Job Applications: Businesses now have a LinkedIn app for job applications.  And job seekers can now apply for jobs with a few clicks on LinkedIn.  Watch the video below to see how you can also make changes to the LinkedIn Profile as you submit a job application.

    The Google +1 Button Experience Gets Faster: These little social sharing buttons now load faster on your web page. You don't need to do anything to experience this improvement. In addition to these improvements, you can add a new asynchronous snippet which allows your web page to continue loading while your browser downloads the +1 JavaScript.

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    Add this asynchronous snippet to increase loading speed even more.

    Here are a couple of social media tools worth noting:

    Webtrends Social: A new entry-level social suite from Webtrends: free for one Facebook page and one app.

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    With Webtrends Social, you can build, promote and manage your Facebook presence without having to write a single line of code or integrate disparate tools.

    GPhangouts: To find public Hangouts on Google+.  Note: this site is not connected to Google.

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    There's also a Google Calender integration for your public Hangouts on Google+.

    Sign up for these new social media magazines launching next month:

    Social Media Magazines: These are four magazines on Twitter, Facebook, Google and LinkedIn for businesspeople, and they'll be published in eight formats. The seven digital formats (iPhone, iPad, Android, Tablet, Blackberry, Kindle and Multi-Media) are all free. The print versions will be available on a paid subscription basis in September.

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    Subscribe now and check out the Social Media Mags website after they start publishing daily in August.

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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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