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Monday’s 5 Social Media Must-Reads

Firebelly

Google+ To Take On Foursquare With Upcoming “Check-in Offers” Feature. By Sarah Perez It looks like Google+ is adding a feature that will allow users to “check-in” via the Google+ mobile application in order to receive a time-sensitive deal or discount.

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10 Tips For Taking A Vacation From Social Media

SocMed Sean

7) Buy a guidebook featuring popular restaurants, tourist destinations, maps, and travel tips – I know it seems old-fashioned, but having a physical book will help keep you off Google Maps, Yelp, Foursquare, and Urban Spoon. Stop relying on user reviews on the Web and mobile applications and ask the locals.

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What is local SEO and how to improve your local ranking

Sprout Social

They could be searching for “concerts near me” to find an upcoming concert in their city or “best painting service in [location]” to find a painting service nearby. Your phone number and website (if applicable). Make the most of the Sprout GMB feature to update your customers with what’s new and share details about upcoming events.

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A Comprehensive List of Social Media Tips, Guides, Plugins.

Saying It Social

of upcoming trends [link] Seesmic – Twitter & FB app [link] Twitterrific – Mac & iPhone app [link] TweetDeck – Twitter, FB & MySpace app [link] Power Twitter – Firefox Add-on https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9591 Twuffer – schedule tweets for later! link] Hootsuite [link] Twitterfall – a way of viewing the latest ?tweets?

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Ignore Foursquare at Your Peril - An Analysis of Potential.

Convince & Convert

Now, I’m not suggesting Foursquare will ever approach Twitter’s level of ubiquity, much less Facebook’s. Because Foursquare makes very little sense unless you’re in a physical location like a store, restaurant, etc. At least it is for me.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Combined with the new geo-targeted social interaction tools like Foursquare and Gowalla, and the just over the horizon technology of QR codes , social graph portability and the “site-less&# Web (as Paul Gillin calls it ) is an area that smart agencies need to know now. The game is going to change in a big way very soon.

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Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup & Key Takeaways from #SMAZ

Kikolani

Static FBML Facebook transition to iframes – experts discuss the upcoming changes. 6 cliches to help you understand SEO – good things come to those who wait and more meaningful applications to search optimization. 100 million checkins have been made on FourSquare at 5.6 million venues.

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