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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?
Video Comes to Self-Serve LinkedIn Ads Platform: LinkedIn is rolling out video ads on their self-serve platform, LinkedIn Ads. “Video ads will appear in standard 300 x 250 ad units across the LinkedIn site and will compete for impressions similar to how traditional text and image ad formats do.”
Verify Your Blog On Pinterest: Pinterest has a new feature for you to “verify that you own the website on your Pinterest profile.” To verify your website, visit your Settings page and click on the Verify Website button.
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:
- What is a good engagement rate on a Facebook Page?
- Do you really NEED to show your face on your blog?
- Guest expert Ross Lasley talks e-commerce.
YouTube Gets InVideo Programming: “InVideo Programming allows you to feature a video across your entire video library. In addition to featuring videos, you can also promote your channel branding. If you change your branding in the future, you can replace it with a single update.”
Tumblr Rolls Out Android App: This new Tumblr app has a few new features including “clearer blog notifications—now you can see exactly which post was liked, reblogged or commented on.”
LinkedIn Revamps its Blackberry App: The new LinkedIn for BlackBerry app for BB6 and BB7 users makes the LinkedIn mobile experience simpler, better and faster.
Here are a few interesting tools worth noting:
Social Content Locker: A WordPress plugin tool to lock any type of content until the user shares it.
Pinvolve: A tool for brands and 80 million Instagram users to share vintage-style photos from Facebook to Pinterest.
Powervoice: a social shopping site that helps people stay connected to the brands they love.
And don't miss this:
Social Media Marketing World is Social Media Examiner's latest mega-conference—taking place at the waterfront San Diego Marriott Marquis & Marina in San Diego, California on April 7-9, 2013.
As you'd expect, Social Media Examiner recruited the biggest and best names in the world of social media marketing for this conference. Only the best for you! Be sure to check it out.
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