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April Showers Bring May Social Updates

Ignite Social Media

No word when this is set to roll out but it does indicate that Facebook is focusing more on reviews, likely to compete with Yelp and Google. If you’re looking to stay up to date on social news, add your name to the Social You Should Know list.

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Social Media News Ticker: Facebook Launches FB Newswire, Acquires Motion Tracking App Moves

The Realtime Report

Facebook launches a newswire so it can help the media — while it competes with them - the FB Newswire is designed to give media outlets and journalists a realtime feed of news-worthy content; the service debuted on Thursday and is partially powered by social news verification service Storyful (GigaOM).

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What’s the Best Social Media Monitoring Tool? It Depends

Webbiquity SMM

It may not catch everything, but it finds a lot (via blogs, Twitter, social news sites and Facebook public pages) and presents the information through useful charts and graphs. It provides capabilities for capturing customer insights, response, brand management and social media outreach tracking.

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11 Common Mistakes That People Make With Their Personal Brands.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

To have credibility, you need to have other people in your field willing and able to testify to your competence. People will expect you to back up your brand with the truth, so when you fail to perform, they immediately begin to question your competence. Rather than stay in your own zone all the time, get out there and meet people.

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Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MBA 101: you can only compete on price or product differentiation. A lot of the major content producers like publishing groups have too much overhead to compete on price with bloggers etc and there’s too many places to get the same content so they can’t differentiate.

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Why Customer Service Should Be in Your Social Media Marketing Strategy

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

We have embarassing pictures in Google Maps , videos about the death of an innocent man in the hands of a “competent&# cop , and even Yelp reviews that can damage your personal reputation , never mind your business. Everything today can be turned into a public spectacle that can make or break you.

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7 Deadly Blog Writing Sins

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

In fact, not only does your blog need to stand out from the average ones that are popping up every day, but you also need to compete with established blogs, with their loyal fan bases, that have been around for years. The trouble is, with so much competition out there, your blog really has to stand out from the crowd.

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