Facebook rolls out ‘Promoted Page Likes’ for page owners to create fast ads – insidefacebook.com Facebook today announced the global rollout of “Promoted Page Likes,” a feature similar to Promoted Posts but aimed at helping page owners get new fans without having to use the more complicated ad dashboard. All pages with a location and profile picture will now have the “promote page” option in their admin panel… Continue Reading On insidefacebook.com » Twitter #music iPhone app falls down the App Store charts, dropping to 126th overall – thenextweb.com/socialmedia/ Less than two weeks after launch, the new Twitter #music iPhone...

Tomorrow on TNW: Your chance to ask HopeMob’s founder Shaun King your entrepreneurship questions – thenextweb.com/socialmedia/ Streaming live on The Next Web, HopeMob founder Shaun King will answer questions from readers at 3 p.m. ET (12 p.m. PT) Thursday, April 25th. As part of the Young Entrepreneur Council’s #StartupLab initiative, a virtual mentorship program, Shaun will appear live via video chat broadcast on this site… Continue Reading On thenextweb.com/socialmedia/ » How a Tweet Toppled the US Stock Market in Seconds – socialfresh.com/blog Yesterday, social media controlled the stock market . A breaking news tweet was posted to @AP, the Associated...

As The Smart Calendar Market Heats Up, Calendo For iPhone Doesn't Want To Just Manage Your Calendar – It Wants To Fill It – techcrunch.com/social In recent months, the iOS App Store has filled with “smart” calendars like Sunrise, Tempo, and Cue, for example, but despite its name, a new Tel Aviv-based startup called Calendo isn’t trying to directly compete with these types of applications. Instead of better managing your calendar for you, Calendo wants to help you fill it by making sure that you don’t miss out on events you would have otherwise attended… Continue Reading On techcrunch.com/social »...

Facebook hires: technical privacy manager, growth manager India, IP counsel, more – insidefacebook.com Facebook removed 30 job listings from its careers page this week, likely after filling roles in the areas of engineering, corporate communications, policy, marketing, sales and others. Prior listings removed from Facebook’s careers page: Oracle Applications Engineer (Dublin) Advocacy Engineer (Menlo Park) Developer Policy Enforcement Tech Lead (Menlo Park) Partner Engineer, Games (Menlo Park) Performance and Capacity Engineer (Menlo Park) Facilities Services Manager (Menlo Park) Administrative Assistant, Search (Menlo Park) IP Counsel (Product) (Menlo Park) Manager, Corporate Communications (Consumer) (New York – Menlo Park) Manager, Corporate Communications, Ads (Menlo Park)...

Vichy, Oral-B, Excedrin and others among this week’s top PTAT gainers for health and beauty pages – insidefacebook.com Vichy is this week’s top gaining health and beauty page for the People Talking About This metric. The page has adopted global pages which explains its rapid growth over the past week with 1.89 million new engagements. Vichy has over 60 different region pages incorporated into its global page. While it is the Most Talked About page for health and beauty pages this week, it is also the fifth fastest growing talked about page overall this week… Continue Reading On insidefacebook.com » Facebook rolling...

Facebook advertisers can now reach users in News Feed with ‘unpublished posts’ – insidefacebook.com Facebook has given advertisers new opportunities to run more relevant ads and test their creative in News Feed by allowing them to create “unpublished posts” that intentionally do not appear to all fans of their page. Previously this option was available for ads on the right hand side of the desktop site, but it was not allowed for feed-based ads until last week… Continue Reading On insidefacebook.com » What If Mad Men Was About A Social Media Agency? – socialfresh.com/blog Mad Men, one of my favorite...

Billions of online user actions say gamification increases site engagement 29% – venturebeat.com/category/social/ Looking to increase commenting, social sharing, and other user engagement on your site? According to a Gigya study of billions of user actions with partners like Pepsi, Nike, and Dell, adding gamification to your site boosts engagement by almost a third. In fact, gamification boosts commenting 13 percent, social sharing to Facebook, Twitter, and networks 22 percent, and content discovery by a massive 68 percent… Continue Reading On venturebeat.com/category/social/ » Visual Identity Platform Vizify Launches Out Of Beta, Now Lets You Share Graphics Via Social Media Cards...