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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? Google+ Allows Nicknames: Over the next week, Google+ will provide “support for alternate names—be they nicknames, birth names, or names …

In this video I interview Chris Brogan, author of Google+ for Business: How Google’s Social Network Changes Everything. Chris shares how Google+ can help small businesses and reveals the strategies he uses to get business leads. You’ll also learn how to adapt your content strategy on Google+ to select the people you want to work …

Are you looking for a better way to manage all of your social accounts? With the growing number of social networks, it can be a pain to keep on top of them all. Below I’ve highlighted three tools to help you manage your various social networking accounts from one neat dashboard. #1: Alternion Just recently …

Are you leveraging the power of social media on your site? Together, social media channels and your website should work seamlessly to promote your online brand. However, if you’re like most businesses, you’re probably missing out on potential interactions, impressions and ultimately sales. In this article, I’ll dive into a quick how-to guide to ensure …

Are you wondering how Facebook’s Timeline will impact your business and marketing? Right now Timeline is currently limited to personal profiles and with no schedule set or promised for brand pages. However, given Facebook’s history with design changes and how changes of this sort first get released to users and later on get applied to …

Do you blog? Feel like you’re trying to reinvent the wheel time and again? Looking for some ideas to simplify your content creation process? What follows are 26 tips, from A-Z, to help you create optimal blog posts every time you sit down to write. #1: Anatomically Correct A blog post contains several areas that …

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? Facebook Announces Tight Integration of 60 Apps to Timeline, More on the Way: Facebook now allows developers a tighter integration …

In this video I interview Anita Campbell, founder of Small Business Trends and BizSugar, and author of Visual Marketing. Anita shares how social media impacts small businesses. You’ll discover which small businesses are slow to adopt social media and where social media brings the best results. Be sure to check out the takeaways below after …

If you’ve ever asked the question, “Can I make money with social media?“, you might have heard a variety of answers such as, “No!”, “Maybe” or “It depends.” Rarely (if at all) have you heard the confident and unwavering response, “Yes, you can!” In their book, How to Make Money with Social Media—An Insider’s Guide …

Are you curious what small businesses are doing to achieve success with social media marketing? Look no further. This article highlights nine small businesses of various sizes and industries that have transformed their online presence with innovative social media marketing practices. You’re guaranteed to find inspiration for your social media marketing efforts here. These tactics …