Need help keeping up with news and updates in the social media world? Let us do the work for you! In our weekly wrap up post, we share 5 must-read articles for small business strategy. This week’s list includes resources for Facebook Page Apps, social media monitoring tools, ideas for Infographics, and more…
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1. 15 Types of Facebook Apps to Enhance Your Facebook Page
Save this valuable guide by Andrea Vahl on the Social Media Examiner blog! If you’re wondering what types of custom Apps/Tabs to put on your Facebook Page, this guide shares a wide variety of options.
2. 26 Social Media Monitoring Tools [Reference Guide]
Another terrific guide this week: this one from Ian Cleary of RazorSocial with a collection of tools to help monitor your social media accounts.
3. How to Get Infographic Ideas to Spring Forth
Barry Feldman (on the Content Marketing Institute blog) shares some great tips on creating your own Infographics. There is also an Infographic with 25 concepts and themes on creating this type of content.
4. Why SEO Is Actually All About Content Marketing
By Neil Patel on the Kissmetrics blog
A great read to understand how SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and Content Marketing work together. Here are two helpful snippets:
“SEO makes demands. Content marketing fulfills those demands.”
“Good SEO, then, means consistent output of content. Consistent output means that you’re doing content marketing, and you’re doing it right. There isn’t any way around it.”
News and Announcements from the Week: Important happenings on the major social platforms:
(1) Google+ will be undergoing some changes in the near future, and this has lots of people speculating on what it means for the social platform. Here are two articles:
Google+ Is Poised For A Big Breakup
The Google+ Split Up: What Does It Bode for the Future?
(h/t to our friend Nancy at Creative Arts Consulting for sharing some great resources on this topic.)
(2) Facebook Page Admins may see “Like” Totals drop on March 12th, and here is a post explaining why (it’s really a good thing for your Page):
UPDATED: Why Facebook Pages’ Like Totals May Drop
(3) We can now embed Twitter videos on our websites. Learn the details here:
Twitter-Hosted Video Can Now Be Embedded On Your Website
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