Google+ Redesign: This Week in Social Media

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?

Google+ Unveils New Design: The new Google+ design “helps you easily explore content as well as dramatically improves your online photo experience to give you

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Social Media Training Courses in Essex

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Is Social Media Not Working For Your Business?

Have you set up your profile on Facebook, Twitetr or LinkedIn and then wondered what to do next?

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LinkedIn Visual Profiles: This Week in Social Media

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?

LinkedIn Introduces Visual Profiles: “For the first time, you will now have the ability to showcase your unique professional story using rich, visual content on your LinkedIn

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Part 2: The Broken Link of Social Customer Service

Part Two. An edited excerpt of What’s the Future of Business, Changing the Way Businesses Create Experiences

In Part 1 of this series, The First Mile: The Broken Link of Social Media Customer Service, we reviewed the opportunities and challenges that face any business seeking to engage customers in social networks. To become customer-centric requires a culture that supports customer-centricity and an active investment in defining the first mile experience.

The first mile of customer engagement is

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Data Science and Why Dogs Rule the Internet

The Internet is massive — more than 634 million websites host more than 30 trillion pages — so we all need some help cutting through to the good stuff. Many of us turn to social media sites, where we come across links that have been shrunken and shared by others through bitly. In fact, 30% of the links on the social web are bitly links. This scale gives the New York-based startup a solid dataset of what’s being clicked and shared throughout the web in real-time, and it’s Hilary Mason‘s job as chief

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