Posts Tagged ‘facebook’

Mobile, Adele, Halo, Will Smith, Porsche, Target, more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook pages

Facebook for Every Phone once again topped our list of growing Facebook pages, reaching almost 3 million new Likes this week.

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PageLever adds post tagging and alerts to insights platform

Facebook analytics platform PageLever has added features that let page owners categorize and compare their posts, as well as receive alerts about any changes in key metrics. With post tagging, PageLever users can indicate which of their posts are related to a particular campaign or employ a certain tactic, for example, asking a question or making a fill-in-the-blank post

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Facebook increases size of ‘Page-Like’ Sponsored Stories in News Feed with recent posts

Facebook has nearly doubled the size of “Page-Like” Sponsored Stories in News Feed by adding a recent post from the page to the story. It is unclear whether the change will make these ads more effective in helping advertisers get new Likes

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Facebook roundup: Optimal, Instagram, TBG Digital, action spec ads

Optimal launches free tool ranking brand pages  - Optimal, Inc., the creators of  Optim.al , a social media advertising and audience data platform, released its Optimal Index to rank brands on Facebook by a metric besides Likes.

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Inside Facebook’s pre-IPO hype

Facebook has completed the first week of its roadshow appearances ahead of an initial public offering that could value the company at up to $96 billion when it lists its shares on the Nasdaq next week. Many analysts are bullish about the stock, with Sterne Agee initiating coverage at “buy” and Wedbush Securities assigning Facebook an “outperform” rating, according to the Wall Street Journal . The social network  set its price range  at $28 to $35 a share. The range was lower than some might have expected, considering that company shares went for $44.10 on secondary exchange SharesPost in March

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Facebook career postings: media solutions, analysts, recruiting, more

Facebook added several analytics and media positions this week on its  Careers  page.

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Bing expands Facebook integration with new social sidebar on search results pages

Bing redesigned its search engine to include a sidebar that displays information from Facebook friends and other social media sources that might be able to help with a search topic. The sidebar includes four components: An “ask friends” feature that lets users post a question to Facebook A list of “friends who might know” about the topic of a user’s query.

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Early Bird Deadline for Social Media Marketing Boot Camp Ends Tomorrow, May 10

Editor’s note: Our sister company, Mediabistro, hosts online workshops that teach social media strategy. The summer session of their Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starts June 7.

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Facebook tries new prompts to encourage users to organize friends into lists

Facebook now displays sidebar modules that encourage users to add friends to a “close friends” list and prompts users to add to their “acquaintances” list after they mark News Feed items as spam. These two new features suggest that Facebook wants to emphasize friend lists as a means for improving relevance in News Feed, not necessarily positioning them as a way to manage a user’s privacy. The features are also examples of how the social network can encourage users to engage with aspects of the service they might not have used lately or ever tried

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Facebook tries new prompts to encourage users to organize friends into lists

Facebook now displays sidebar modules that encourage users to add friends to a “close friends” list and prompts users to add to their “acquaintances” list after they mark News Feed items as spam. These two new features suggest that Facebook wants to emphasize friend lists as a means for improving relevance in News Feed, not necessarily positioning them as a way to manage a user’s privacy.

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