HootSuite Integrates LinkedIn Company Pages & Groups
HootSuite is adding LinkedIn Company Pages and Groups, the social media management tool announced on Thursday. The integration is key for HootSuite — which previously only supported LinkedIn profiles — in evolving side-by-side with its main user base: social media marketers. Since filing to go public in January, LinkedIn has increasingly gained attention as a social platform. [...]
Read MoreWill.i.am’s Google+ Profile Gets Link on Google’s Front Page
New advertising opportunities just became available, at least for Will.i.am it has. Go to Google’s homepage today and see a link to the Black Eyed Peas band member’s Google+ profile reading: Hangout with the Black Eyed Peas before they go on stage. Tonight at 6pm ET. It is reported to be the first time a [...]
Read MoreNokia Creates Foursquare-Enabled Vending Machine
Location-based technology and vending machines seem like a natural match, but Nokia is among the first, perhaps the first, to make the connection. To celebrate Social Media Week, the mobile brand released the video above detailing how such a machine works: All you have to do is check in to the machine on Foursquare using the #NokiaConnects [...]
Read MorePresident Obama to Answer Questions on Job Creation at LinkedIn Town Hall
What better place for the president to address unemployment while staying up on his social networking game than LinkedIn? Well there really isn’t, that is probably why President Obama will participate in a town hall at the LinkedIn headquarters next Monday Sept. 26. President Obama will answer questions about job creation and the economy from [...]
Read MoreThe Wall Street Journal Brings Its Content to Facebook
The Wall Street Journal, known in publishing circles for its enviable ability to get users to pay for its content, is attempting to give that content greater visibility on Facebook. The newspaper has launched WSJ Journal, a Facebook app that republishes Journal content on Facebook. Alisa Bowen, general manager of The Wall Street Journal Digital Network, says all [...]
Read MoreThe Trouble With Facebook’s $12 Billion, 180,000-Jobs-Creating Economic Boost
A new study by the University of Maryland, looking at the vast ecosystem of apps surrounding Facebook’s core social networking offering, has some bold things to say about Mark Zuckerberg’s plaything. Among other statistics, the study says that Facebook’s apps have boosted the U.S. economy to the tune of over $12 billion, and are associated with [...]
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