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Welcome to our weekly edition of whats hot in social media news.

In a sense, its a clean intece into the breadth of Facebook data that people have entered into Facebook, but contextualized to each user.

Watch this video introducing Facebook Graph Search.

To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.

So, whether youre a B2B and/or B2C company, now is a great time to start leveraging LinkedIn to find and attract your target market.

Capture what youre currently working on, your current goals, the people you think can help you move your goals forward and what youre currently looking to learn. (You may or may not actually have a name for your direction, but a title will dothink of creating a networking persona.)

Glyder is an iPhone app that allows you to share well-designed marketing messages as social media updates using predefined templates.

The show format is on-demand talk radio (also known as podcasting).

Think about that for a moment. Facebooks new Graph Search serves up personalized search results in real time based on a persons graph, and it does this for over 1 billion people.

In this article youll discover 3 tools to enable you to become more efficient and effective with social media.

Kudos to the Facebook engineering team for this major achievement.

In this post, Ill take a look at 26 businesses that have created presences on Tumblr and discuss the techniques they use for their blogs, while also introducing many of Tumblrs specific features and lexicon.

Launched in 2007Social Media Examiner, Tumblr has experienced tremendous growth over the past several years.

In this episode, I interview Lee Odden, author of the book Optimize: How to Attract and Engage More Customers by Integrating SEO, Social Media and Content Marketing. Hes the CEO of TopRank Online Marketing and the editor of Marketing Blog. Plus there is a killer SlideShare tip youll want to pay attention to.

According to Experian Marketing Services, LinkedIn received 94M total U.S. visits in December 2012, an increase of 40% in traffic compared to December 2011.

Lee shares his insights into the world of SEO and content marketing, and the elements of his strategy that have contributed to his success. Youll learn about the four categories of content that you must create for your sites, Social Media and tips for getting the most out of them.

Graph Search is Facebooks latest revision to the search feature that helps users find connections to people and places that have always existed in the graph.

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Its designed to help busy marketers and business owners discover what works with social media marketing.

SlideShare Introduces Send Tracker for Email Tracking: With SlideShares new Send Tracker, a new content analytics tool for SlideShare Pro, you can now sendSocial Media content to a potential customer, see when they opened it, how they engaged with it and gain better insights on which parts resonated most.

Jason Keath wrote, Not every brand works on Tumblr and suggested that three categories of blogs may re better than others: shion, large websites and publishing/broadcast media. As well see with the examples below, Tumblrs features offer the ability to be more visual and less verbose.

Tumblr is a visual blogging platform.

Forbes reported that 120,000 new Tumblr blogs are created every day, totaling 86 million that drive 18 billion page views per month.

Here are 8 things you can do to turn social media contacts into offline business relationships.

Facebook recently announced Graph Search.

Do you want to acquire more traffic and leads from LinkedIn?

Are you looking for tools that will help you manage your social media efforts?

In this article Ill share what Facebooks Graph Search is, how it works and how it fits your marketing strategy.

Did you know you can add custom banners to your company page for free? And did you know each of these banners can link back to your site?

Glyder helps you improve the quality of the content you share and be more efficient with your mobile device for social media marketing.

Are you wondering how the landscape of search and social is changing, and how to benefit from it?

How much do you know about the microblogging site Tumblr?

To learn about the key changes in search and social, and how they impact your marketing, I interview Lee Odden for this episode of the Social Media Marketing podcast.

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Here are 8 ways to attract high-quality leads with LinkedIn.

Do you want to make more efficient use of your time on social media?

In this post, Ill explore steps you can take to turn those online contacts to offline business relationships. Ill use the thought of heading to a large event or conference as the stake in the ground so you have a when and where for connecting with some of your online contacts.

You can add up to three different linkable product banners (646 pixels x 222 pixels) to the Products &ree New Networks for the Digital Age, just having an online network isnt enough.

The Social Media Marketing podcast is a show from Social Media Examiner.

Do you use social media and search to promote your business?

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Select one of the templates and personalize it by adding your own text, company name/website address and even change the image.

You no longer need a designer to produce imagery to promote your latest contest, offer or status update. With Glyder, you can choose from a wide range of graphic templates that use tried and tested formats and wording to help get the best conversion for your marketing messages.