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Facebook Recommendations – Place Pages

By David Neuman, Social Media Manager

Facebook launched a new feature today that allows users to provide recommendations directly on a place page. Now users can write their own recommendation, distribute it to everyone or just their network, and comment on other user’s recommendations. With this simple, but great new feature Facebook is providing place pages with an easy outlet to [...] Read More

Facebook Launches New “Send” Button

By David Neuman, Social Media Manager

Today Facebook has announced a new feature to their ever expanding list of developer tools: the “send button”. Simply put, the send button can be viewed as Facebook’s version of the e-mail share button you see on various websites.  The main difference between the send button and the Facebook “Like” button is that the send [...] Read More

Introducting the “+1 Button”: Google’s New Social Search Tool

By David Neuman, Social Media Manager

Google announced yesterday the release of their “+1 Button” which, according to them, is their “this is pretty cool” button. The purpose of the +1 button is to provide people with search results that would interest them the most based on the preferences of their Social Media networks.  Next to each search listing there will [...] Read More

YouTube – Animated Video

By David Neuman, Social Media Manager

YouTube released a very cool new feature a couple of days ago that allows you to create animated videos for FREE. There are three applications that allow you to do this located here: http://www.youtube.com/create To quickly some up the difference between the 3 applications: GoAnimate – This is my favorite out of the 3 applications [...] Read More

Facebook to Discontinue Static FBML – Pages Will Run Via iFrames

By David Neuman, Social Media Manager

A lot of changes have been taking place in the Facebook world between updated profiles, fan pages, and tweaks to their advertising platform. One of the more significant changes relates to a recent announcement by Facebook stating that starting March 11th Facebook Page developers will no longer be able to use Static FBML to code [...] Read More

Facebook Pages Have Been Updated

By David Neuman, Social Media Manager

As most page admins have probably seen by now, Facebook Fan Pages have changed their layout. While this is currently an opt in feature, the changes will take full effect March 1st.  Here is an overview of some of the main changes you should expect with fan pages: Photos Appear At the Top of the [...] Read More

Social Media Website Trends – 2010 Traffic Stats

By David Neuman, Social Media Manager

Social Media is one of the fastest changing industries in existence. If you go even one month without reading the latest trends, websites, etc. you will find yourself well behind in your Social Media knowledge.  In 2009, most people never even heard of FourSquare. Fast forward to 2010 and it has become one of the [...] Read More

7 LinkedIn Features You May Not Know

By David Neuman, Social Media Manager

Over the past few years, LinkedIn has altered it’s brand from a glorified “job hunting” network to the most powerful B2B Social Network on the web. LinkedIn is often referred to as the best Social Network for connecting with other business-minded individuals whether it’s to exchange ideas, obtain leads, or general networking. One of the [...] Read More

Facebook Adds New Feature to Insights

By David Neuman, Social Media Manager

Facebook has added a feature to insights that will help to improve how you calculate and analyze success related to your page.  For fan pages that you admin, you can now select a date range to view statistics for all metrics within those dates.  This might not sound like a big deal, but it’s significant [...] Read More