By Cindy King
Published July 6, 2013
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?
: Google+ launches “a bunch of new plugins that help visitors to connect with you on Google+, directly from your website.” There’s an updated Google+ Follow plugin and updated badges for your Google+ Profiles and Pages. You can now also create a badge for your Google+ Communities.
Check out the updated Google+ Page badges.
: LinkedIn has “added the top requested features — the ability to search for jobs, companies, groups and people on-the-go. In addition they have added a few tips to help you be more productive from wherever you may be working.”
With LinkedIn mobile, you can now find and discover people, jobs and groups.
: 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:
: Facebook will “implement a new review process for determining which Pages and Groups should feature ads alongside their content. This process will expand the scope of Pages and Groups that should be ad-restricted.”
For example, Facebook “will now seek to restrict ads from appearing next to Pages and Groups that contain any violent, graphic or sexual content [content that does not violate (current) community standards]. Prior to this change, a Page selling adult products was eligible to have ads appear on its right-hand side; now there will not be ads displayed next to this type of content.”
: SocialOomph reports that “Twitter changed their terms of service and outlawed automated following back of people who followed you first.”
: Klout announces “the official integration of Bing search results into the Klout Score.” This means that “the number of times you are searched for on Bing will now contribute directly to your Klout Score.”
Bing has just been added to Klout.
: Groupon Reserve “allows you to easily book tables (from the comfort of your own couch) at some of the best restaurants in your city at discounts of up to 40 percent.”
Groupon Reserve allows you to book from the comfort of your couch.
: “You can now easily upload your presentations, documents and videos saved in Dropbox to SlideShare!”
Use Dropbox to upload your presentations, documents or videos to SlideShare.
: With the shutdown of Google Reader this week, HootSuite has enhanced its “RSS capabilities to not only provide a powerful solution for bringing content into the dash from around the web, but also for managing and curating content through social syndication.”
Here’s more interesting news to follow:
: Starting soon, Twitter will be experimenting with a way to make ads on Twitter more appealing to users in the United States “by displaying promoted content from brands and businesses they’ve shown interest in. Users won’t see more ads on Twitter, but they may see better ones.”
: “After a week of testing and scaling, adding batches of users and improving our infrastructure, Digg are happy to fully open Digg Reader to the public!”
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