Best/Top of Social Media News/Stories This Week (5th May, 13)

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Talking about the top social media stories this week, stories like 'Facebook blocks Path's ability to access 'find friends' function as it violated FB's platform policy', 'today on 5th May, 2013 Linkedin turns 10', 'availability of a YouTube app for Google Glass', 'new tag feature by Instagram' etc. add to the list.

Out of these bagful stories, I found the following few interesting. Hope you would enjoy'em as well.

Credit: S. Kenwright

Best of Social Media News/Stories This Week

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Starting with the hack of Associated Press's twitter handle which ultimately led to a momentary crash in NASDAQ, to all new Linkedin Contacts, Facebook buying Parse, Pinterest on Nook tablets are some of the top happenings from best of social media world this week.

Among them, these 8 (as below) have caught my attention as a social media strategist and so putting them up as best social media stories I read/heard/learnt this week.

Facebook Gifts: Thumbs Up or Down?

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Sending a real gift to your friends on Facebook is now a possibility. With that previously rolled out Facebook Card, now one can actually send real gifts to friends on Facebook. Facebook Gift

As Facebook says - now you can "Buy real gifts for friends to celebrate birthdays, new jobs and other big moments. Just pick out the perfect gift, add your message and it’s ready to ship". And YES, you don't need to mention any address, the receiver can add at his own, saving both of the parties of  privacy concerns.

Recent Development in Facebook: The Facebook Card

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Facebook Card is the new buzz; So are you in?

It could be soon seen in your wallet, yes, in your wallet. Introduced on 31st January, 2013, Facebook Card is gonna be the next super-hit idea from FB.

And the Social Graph Search, introduced in January 2013, has already stirred the scene of the search in the worldwide web arena. Whatever comes to your mind, just search it out and get some great results in and within Facebook.

In case you haven't used the social graph search, just visit https://www.facebook.com/about/graphsearch and click on that try graph search button. Well, you would experience a whole new look with all the notifications, messages and friend requests on right just by the side of the settings.

Back to point, With Facebook Card, you might feel that indeed FB is coming more into your offline line/life. :)

Source: Facebook

Social Media and the JOB you want

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Using social media to find your dream job (or any job). Workshop presentation from JEC (Jorhat Engineering College) today.

Social Media and the JOB you want from Syed M Raza


From the workshop conducted by Social Media Club - Assam for the students of Jorhat Engineering College, Jorhat, Assam.

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Game Theory and Social Media

Have you ever felt the excitement of earning a new badge in foursquare? Don’t you feel lucky when you take a look at those retired badges you’ve earned on foursquare?

Job Seekers and Students - A Little Social Media for You Again

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Social media being around for almost 7 years, with its profound impact, has touched the job sector very well. Hiring through social media platforms has become a reality today.

To crack the softest nut a buck harder, every (so called or self-proclaimed*) social media specialist you come across will sure talk a lot about using social media to find a new new job, while they are still unsure finding one for themselves. It's rare that someone talks about the point of relationships, which is crucial to any presence on any social media platform irrespective of the use intended for.

Basic Social Media for Photographers [Slide]

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One of the most creative creatures on Earth is a photographer. They not only capture a frame, but capture a story. A story garnering a self-life, giving an ultimate exposure to the photographer. And when it is combined with the goodness of social media, such a story is capable of becoming the next online sensation like the pictures from Occupy protests and those included in various lists like the Reuters one here.

Here's a presentation (click Continue Reading) where I tried my best to brief the social media use from a photographer's perspective.

Hootsuite Acquires Seesmic: Bad News or a Good One?

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Hooting best to its endeavor, the leading Social Media dashboard Hootsuite acquires Seesmic.

Seesmic was the 2nd best social media dashboard so far just after Hootsuite.

With most of the similar services cutting out their free services (under freemium policy), this acquisition indicates a blurred future of such free services (at-least for the users).

CocaCola Vs. Pepsi on Twitter #Infographics

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Beverage brands, namely CocaCola and Pepsi, are continuing their usual clash on ads and even on twitter! 

Here's an honest comparison of the twitter presence of these two giants through infographics. Thanks to Visual.ly

Data considered is from June 15th to July 15th 2012.

C’mon Twitter, You are Not Just a Bird: The New Twitter Logo

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Remember that launch of the ACTIVITY tab by Twitter in the month of October last year? Yes, that was a pure insane move by our beloved blue bird. Now, here comes another one – The New Twitter Logo.

What:

On June 6th, Twitter revamped and reintroduced its logo naming it as the simplified Twitter bird. The blog post assisting the introduction of the revamped logo says – Twitter is the bird, the bird is twitter.

It also mentions that there is no place for text to represent twitter, no bubbled typefaces, or not even a lowercase “t” to represent Twitter. It’s just the bird. (Oh, really?)

5 Basic Things to Start Your Brand Page (In visuals)

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It’s been already around 4 months that Facebook has introduced changes to its pages and timeline. And if you search the net, thousands of articles are there to help you finding the basic things required to start your Brand Page, despite the fact that FB already has its own resources like Tour, Help Centre, Learning Video, Page Product Guide.

This article simply aims to present the 5 basic things to help you getting your FB brand page done and running:

Latest Twitter Developments: Changes that Bring Twitter Closer…

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As the head of Twitter API, Ryan Sarver says - Twitter team always wants to focus on the simplicity. Keeping pace with which it has always come out with some great changes and developments from time to time.

In the following paragraphs you will find some of the latest Twitter developments, capable of shaking all of
your twitter marketing strategies so far and followed by a few tips to make the best use of these changes.

Latest Changes in Facebook Photo Viewer

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Facebook photos are now much bigger and way better than earlier. Facebook today rolled out its latest photo viewer with Google+ like features. (It) seems like the testing that FB was doing in the month of Jan 2012 with 3 modules has finally yielded something that again positions FB as a keen learner of Google+ movements.

The FB Photo Journey: 
Since the launch in 2005, Facebook Photo platform has been through tremendous changes. Way back in 2007, there were 1.7 billion user uploaded photos, 60+ million photos were added every week and 100,000+ images were served per second during the peak traffic hours.

How to Create an Internal Social Media Policy?

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As I wrote in my last Article, irrespective of the type whether it’s a ‘Floating’ or ‘Fixed’ every social media policy should be propelled through a filtered process of certain steps to ensure the best yield.

Just like any other policy, the end goal of a social media policy for an organization is simply to decipher the common guidelines to save a bigger (interested/involved) mass from any diabolical, unethical, illegal representation by a smaller mass involved within.

The Types of Social Media Policy

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( Types of Social Media Policy - imported from my post in SocialMediaClub.org )

According to a report by eMarketer, 4 out of every 5 computer users use social media platforms actively. Under such an influence, it is quite easy to depict the scene of requirement of a social media policy inside an organization, even though some of these organizations may never have considered social media within their direct working parameter. 

Why  NOT a policy?

As per the data from MarketingProfs, 35% companies still don’t have any written social media policy in practice. 

Twitter vs. Google+: ‘Search, plus Your World’ (A Twitter Overshot)

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Last few days, starting from 10th Jan, 2012, entire (social media & blogging) world was/is discussing the hottest topic of Twitter vs. Google+ on the battle field named ‘Search, Plus Your World’.

"Search, plus Your World’ immediately came under the rage of Twitter who fired back on this latest development calling it to be a monopolistic move towards a narrower social networking space.

The Top 5 Pure Social Media Trends in 2012

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“Top social media trends in 2012” would find at-least a quarter of the topics from outside the present social media niche up to a good extent.

While 2011 itself experienced the never before growth in tablets and the developments in mobile technologies, in my personal view, they never could be considered directly within the niche of social media. If it were so, we should have been covering all the developments from the companies like HP, Apples’ law suits against Samsung and other tablet makers in different countries, development of sandwich ice-cream Android etc. within the discussion of social media.

In an indirect manner, all the technological developments would surely contribute towards the enrichment of social media trends in 2012.

The trends supposed to dominate social media in the year 2012:

The Most Popular Games on Social Networks

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Most popular games on social networks… Ahem!! If you find yourself more often shooting the angry birds at those green piglets or creating a virtual city inside Facebook and/or Google+ then this article is for you.

If you are/were one of those millions of virtual farmers who loved creating virtual paddy fields and growing crops, defending their line of control on Farmville or among those who loved to create virtual cities on Cityville then proudly you belong to the 1/3rd of the entire online population (as per Nielsen Media Report) who plays social media games.

Where Does the Social Game Stand?

The Worldwide Introduction of Facebook Timeline and A Few Concerns

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Few hours back, Facebook has introduced the much awaited 'Timeline' publicly and worldwide. Earlier it was available to a few of the Facebook developers and to the people who tricked it out through their own kinda researches on the internet.

How to get your Facebook Timeline?

Facebook Check-in Badges: Quite possible with Gowalla’s movement

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Don’t get surprised if you soon get a pretty badge for your Facebook check-in or other activities.

Those who have already collected many pins on Gowalla and badges on Foursquare, would easily understand what a Facebook badge might look like. And with this latest hurtle of the Gowalla team joining Facebook, the badges on Facebook seems quite possible as of the years beyond 2012. Consider the fact that quality design work has always been the priority and specialty of Gowalla.

Starting from the ban on Google+ ads on Facebook, development of the ‘timeline’, counter suit on timeline.com, latest ticker ad development, then declaration of a new office in New York in the coming days the strategy of Zuckerberg’s team seems pretty much clear as they are lanning/moving in a real agile towards the IPO launch by April, 2012.

Google+ Trending Topics vs. Twitter Trending Topics

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Google+ trending topics list is the latest block structured by Google that floats exactly on the “keep changing” theory of social media waves. It was added to the Google+ bounty on 17th Nov, 2011 as per the sources.

As of 18th Nov, 2011, Mashable ennobles this latest addition by Google+ as a competitive move against twitter’s trending topics, whereas Webpronews.com considers the undeniable fact of the receding differences in between the social media giants Facebook, Google+ and Twitter.