Local Updates keep you connected to places you enjoy the most
News on Social Marketing, according to Four Square Blog, Foursquare focuses on helping you decide on where to go, what to order, and gives updates on interesting things happening around you. And keeps you connected with places you enjoy.
With foursquare claiming almost 1,000,000 businesses, made it easy to keep up with the latest news from places you frequent. Updates from places you often checked in or liked can now be seen from your friend’s tab. If you no longer want any updates from a certain business, you can easily turn them off with just one tap.
Updates can be seen on the page when you look for places in Explore or when you check in. For example, you’ll see the recent update on their latest seasonal drink when you’re on Northern Spy Food Co.’s page.
When you’re in the same city, you can see these updates when you like them. Some of the businesses that have started sharing updates are national chains like Togo’s Sandwiches, Outback Steakhouse, H&M and Wolfgang Puck. Others are universities like University of Wisconsin-Madison, Texas A&M University, Indiana University-Bloomington, Boston University, University of South Florida and Duke University. New York Public Library, Northern Spy Food Company, Luke’s Lobster and NYC Parks Department are the local New York favorites on foursquare.
Read more at Introducing Local Updates from businesses – keeping up with the places you love has never been easier!
Visual.ly is rapidly leading on infographics and data visualization
News on Social Marketing, according to Visual.ly Blog, Visual.ly has quickly grown to become the leading destination for infographics and data visualization with 32,000 designers signing up and about 2 million people returning every month to discover and share infographics.
As you enjoy what we offer, we also listen to your clamor for improvements on some of our features. Just like providing you with personalized experience when exploring infographics and visualizations. Tracking a particular designer and keeping track of his or her work isn’t always easy.
Now, the world’s first social network for data visualization has been launched. It will have the improved profiles for our members, including aggregated metrics about the infographics you’ve shared. The first thing that you will see after you log in will be your activity feed that will be updated in real time.
You can now share more about yourself and your work if you are a designer and will have the ability to add a badge that will indicate that you are a certified designer.
Our marketplace will be launched later this year and it will provide those who need infographics with the data journalists, designers, programmers and researchers needed to commission an infographic.
While developing their reputations, creative talent will be able to connect with paying clients and find meaningful work.
Read more at Visual.ly Launches Social Network for Data Visualization
Linkedln Homepage offers quick access to relevant updates
News on Social Marketing, according to Linkedin Blog, since millions are visiting LinkedIn everyday to discuss your professional life, we have launched an easy way to navigate Homepage experience to give easy access to relevant information and updates that can assist you for a successful job.
Our entire Homepage experience have been overhauled with a simpler and cleaner design to easily navigate the page and to easily find the information that matters most to you.
Now, you will be able to see more relevant updates and articles at the top of the feed. Depending on what your industry is discussing, sharing, and reading, these will help you to quickly stay on top of what matters most, such as professional updates, news, and trending topics. This will lessen your time in looking for information you need in preparation for your workday.
Updates look are also refreshed and stream are updated with richer visuals for easier scanning and viewing. Now, you don’t have to click “see more” to access all the latest updates from your network and you can engage in the professional conversations with your connections by liking, commenting or sharing the updates.
We are focusing on making Homepage experience better and are looking forward in making the LinkedIn Homepage your go-to destination to discuss what matters to you, your industry and your professional network around the world.
Read more at Introducing a Simpler Homepage
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