March 06, 2012

YouTube Enhancements: This Week in Social Media

 
 

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via Social Media Examiner by Cindy King on 2/25/12

social media researchWelcome to our weekly edition of what's hot in social media news. To help you stay up-to-date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.

What's New This Week?

YouTube Adds More Communication Features: Recent updates on YouTube include "a new way to promote your Google+ profile on YouTube, more options in the Annotations Editor" and more options to post Channel Bulletins to your Channel Feed.

youtube share google+ button

Add a Google+ button to your YouTube channel.

youtube channel update

You can now share videos and playlists in your YouTube Channel Feed by posting a Channel Bulletin.

Twitter Updates Mobile Apps for iPhone and Android: Both apps bring back high-demand features, including the swipe shortcut, and they also introduce new design and functionality improvements.

Buffer Adds LinkedIn Functionality: In addition to Twitter and Facebook, you can now share updates to LinkedIn through Buffer.

buffer dashboard

Simply add another social account from your Buffer dashboard.

Here are some social media tools worth noting:

Quipol: This little polling app now supports YouTube and Vimeo videos.

Slidemotion VideoExpress : A free Facebook app which allows you to make videos with music from your Facebook photo albums, in three clicks.

slidemotion videoexpress

Create your video in three steps.

Constant Contact's Social Campaigns: A new social media tool to help you get "more likes, more shares and more business."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4m1Ddp52lg

Quick Box Social: Allows a novice user to build a Facebook page with no knowledge of HTML or programming. It's a simple "drag and drop" set of tools to create Facebook Business Pages with "images, text, videos, forms, email capture, Twitter feeds and LinkedIn feeds."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lusCLowGhiw

Cyfe: An all-in-one dashboard that helps you monitor and analyze data scattered across your online services.

cyfe

Keep track of all of your dashboards in one place.

Fanmix: A social inbox to "manage all of your social conversations on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, blogs, comment threads and everywhere else."

fanmix

Find all of your social conversations in one simple inbox.

Kwanzoo: A multichannel engagement marketing platform.

kwanzoo

Use Kwanzoo for lead generation, lead nurturing and word-of-mouth marketing.

Here's an interesting infographic:

22 Ways to Create Compelling Content When You Don't Have a Clue:

create content infographic

Discover new ways to easily create content for your social media platforms.

What social media news caught your interest this week? Please share your comments below.


 
 

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