Everyone with an interest in Social Media is abuzz following the announcement on Monday, that Facebook began testing a new feature called ‘Collections’, which allows marketers to add ‘Want’ or ‘Collect’ buttons to news feed posts about products. Facebook has stated that the new feature is unrelated to Pinterest, but we can’t help but notice the similarity… you be the judge?
It is rumored that Linkedin will be shutting off the Tweets application on 31 January 2012, at which stage the application will be removed from all profiles and from the homepage. Any tweets imported from Twitter into the Linkedin network updates stream will however not be affected by this.
Let’s face it, whether you’re a social strategist or not, our main effort with most of our communication type content is focussed in platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Blogs, as is the case with most businesses’ content efforts to date. The convenience of having your Blog and Twitter feed simply streaming through your Linkedin company page, thereby automatically populating this platform with content, has left very little need for us to direct much attention to this professional network (with the exception of managing a Linkedin Group of course).
A new online service for the media, marketing and advertising industries that combines news and analysis with social networking is just weeks away from being launched in South Africa.
Parenthood has always necessitated two extra sets of arms and that deft ability to juggle three balls whilst bouncing four more whilst having a moment free to monitor your families’ online activity. Aol is here to help with the balancing act with the launch of Aol SafeSocial – be there to keep your kids safe and monitor their social networking without ‘butting in’ to their social lives.
