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Social Media News Ticker: Instagram Launches Bolt, Foursquare Debuts New Logo, Facebook Drops Gifts

The Realtime Report

Check out all the latest social media news from the last two weeks, including changes and new features for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and Foursquare: Facebook. Mobile web, iPad, feature phone, Windows Phone, Paper, and desktop users can still message in their main Facebook apps or sites like before. Foursquare.

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Musings on Joining New Social Media Sites, Site Recommendations.

Saying It Social

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials Musings on Joining New Social Media Sites, Site Recommendations and On-Going Participation A while back I set up accounts on Amplify and Clipmarks. One day, four new sites. What are your experiences with trying out new sites?

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Social Networking Terms of Use in 2013

Firebelly

Popular social sites like Facebook have been the subject of privacy concerns for years, but users are starting to hold companies accountable for their actions – making others rethink the way they take on Internet privacy. Foursquare 101. The changes could be seen as a breach in user privacy, but Foursquare prepared for this.

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I Don't Care Where. You. Are. Right. Now. | Almost Savvy

Almost Savvy

If I wanted to know these things, we’d be connected on Foursquare so I could follow along as you cruise through town going to meetings and running errands. For each stop in your day, you check-in with Foursquare , Gowalla , Brightkite , Loopt , Whrrl and others. But truth? I really don’t want to go there!

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7 steps to shutting down a social media site

Laurel Papworth

Remember, customers believe that social media sites belong to “them&# the customer and for a % of your online community your exit strategy is going to destroy their friendships and their content. Notification email or blog post is sort of pre point 1 – how you open the issue and touching on the other 7 points: Hello.

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9 Social Media Tools Every Blogger Needs To Know About

Kikolani

SocialMention monitors 100 + social media sites so you can easily track and measure conversations on keywords in real-time. Often the most popular bloggers are also the most influential on social media sites. For those of you who don’t have time to regularly visit sites such as SocialMention, Nutshell mail provides a good alternative.

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Empire Avenue – Measurement of Social Influence?

Janet Fouts

Basically Empire Avenue is a community (and I use that term loosely here) where members buy and sell virtual shares in each other in the hopes of getting rich in currency of the site, called “eaves&#. If you want to increase your value you make your investors happy, interact a lot on your social networks and on the site and voila!