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This Week in Social Media – 7/17/2013

Social Media Marketing

Be vigilant, community managers. Metrics/Measurement/Big Data Sponsorships are still a growing percentage of budgets growing anywhere from 3-6% in 2013 and comprising 14% of marketing budgets. Users can now add photos to comments to all Facebook pages globally. Some recommendations/warnings for WeChat from a marketer.

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Life After the News Feed: Why Facebook is Shifting to Stories (And Why Your Business Should Too)

Buffer Social

The News Feed is one of Facebook’s marque innovations. For nearly a decade, the News Feed was the jewel in Facebook’s crown. It even admitted the News Feed can have a negative impact on mental health. While the News Feed has been experiencing growing pains, a new format has arisen: Stories. ” The rise of Stories.

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Pheed – Express Yourself on Social Media

Mindjumpers

I have been looking into upcoming social platforms and came across Pheed, which for a while has created some buzz on the web and have been announced the breakout social media star of 2013. Pheed was launched October 2012 and was founded by a group of friends from the technology and entertainment community in Silicon Valley, California.

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Coffee and Community: Foster Coffee Company on Growing Their Social Media Following and Business

Buffer Social

. “We love coffee, but we love community and people more.” We spoke to co-founder Nicholas Pidek and marketing associate, Justin Ozanich, about how social media has helped them grow their community and business. People drive our community, not products. ” – Nicholas. Discovering Buffer through a personal touch.

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YouTube At A Crossroads: Social Media Network or Streaming Service?

Ignite Social Media

We asked one of our representatives what prompted the move, and the GWI research team replied with the following: We reviewed the social media questions last year and felt that the landscape had changed since they were first introduced in 2013 and that YouTube would now fit more comfortably into the TV, film and video services. Community Tab.

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Decoding the Facebook Algorithm: A Fully Up-to-Date List of the Algorithm Factors and Changes

Buffer Social

The Facebook algorithm helps make sense of the huge number of posts that people and businesses share every day and chooses the posts to show in our News Feed based on a huge number of factors. Read on, and see what goes into the complex, fascinating formulas of the Facebook News Feed. Facebook algorithm values.

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A Social Media Status Quo Pt.1-Japan

Mindjumpers

Mindjumpers’ global network consists of local country community managers, creating a platform of multinational professionals. It is their insights enable us to execute and maintain brand communities around the world in a structured, quality assured and cost effective way. Local community manager Kiran Larange shares his knowledge.