"Social Media"

Robin Good: Facebook has introduced a new curation feature designed to allow its users to collect and organize their favorite "products" into so-called "Collections".

 

According to Hubspot "the new feature called 'Collections,' allows marketers to add “Want” or “Collect” buttons to news feed posts about products."

 

Source: http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/33698/Facebook-Tests-Pinterest-Style-Feature-Called-Collections.aspx

 

The new FB "Collections" is publicly available to everyone, and it is being tested "with 7 retail partners -- Pottery Barn, Wayfair, Victoria’s Secret, Michael Kors, Neiman Marcus, Smith Optics, and Fab.com."

(you need to go to those FB brad pages to test it).

 

It also seems that the feature can be activated in at least three different ways by one of these three upcoming action buttons:

 

a) "Want": adds the product to a Timeline section of a user's profile called “Wishlist”

 

b) "Collect": adds the item to a Collection called “Products”

 

c) "Like": a special version of the standard "Like" button that also adds the item to “Products”

 

N.B.: While Collections are free for business pages to use, they're only visible to the page's fans. You have to "Like" the page in order to see these types of posts.

 

Find out more here: http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/33698/Facebook-Tests-Pinterest-Style-Feature-Called-Collections.aspx

 

and here: http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/08/facebook-collections/

 

 

 

 

 

 

Via Robin Good, Miguel Gajete, Jimun Gimm

Na semana em que estão todos falando das mudanças na Timeline das Fan Pages do Facebook, compartilho com vocês esse artigo selecionado pela Janl Gordon.

 

Segundo ela, a nova timeline do Facebook proporciona para as marcas uma forma de inserir os negócios nas mídias sociais, muito mais do que apenas adicionar mídias sociais aos negócios.

 

Alguns benefícios:

 

Novo formato que incorporou o design thinking , trazendo grande força ao visual;

 

A possibilidade da customização das páginas  as deixa mais atraentes, relevantes e diferenciadas para os seus clientes e consumidores;

 

A possibilidade de visualização dos seus próprios posts sobre a marca, lado a lado  com os de seus públicos,  sem a confusão de páginas de mensagens de estranhos e pessoas fora do seu círculo de influência, ajuda muito no impacto.

 

Eu ainda estou experimentando a nova timelline nas minhas Fan Pages da Clear educação, Portal Voluntarios Online e Social Good Brasil, mas tendo a achar que essas modificações, quando bem utilizadas, irão incrementar as estratégias das marcas  e causas nesse poderoso canal.

 

Abaixo o post da Janl Gordon em Inglês e as fontes que ela utlizou.

 

 

This piece is from AllFacebook - I selected this article because I thought it was worthy of your attention. I personally am getting better results since I changed my page to the new timeline and have made incredible progress building brand awareness and gaining support from my colleagues.

 

Here are some of the highlights:

 

Facebook's new timeline now gives brands a way to bring their business to social media, rather than just adding social media to their businesses

 

Here are some of the benefits:

 

**New format that incorporates design thinking

visualization is now the driving force behind social media, Pinterest has risen to popularity because it lets people express their lives visually

 

**the abillity for brands to customize their pages to fit their message and most important

 

**the ability for brands to make their pages personalized and relevant to consumers

 

**the timeline page reflects and showcases the brand, helping to drive differentiation

 

**Facebook timeline allows you to see brand posts side-by-side with posts from your friends about the brand, without the clutter of pages of posts from strangers & people outside your circle of influence

 

Selected by Jan Gordon covering "Content Marketing, Social Media and Beyond"

 

Read full article here: [http://bit.ly/Af88Pb]

Via janlgordon, Fernanda Bornhausen Sá

There's a lot to be learned from how the big brands handle their customers on social media channels. These 9 examples should be part of your customer service playbook.

Via David Blundell, Neil Wilkins

Speaking at SES New York, Google shared the news of the immediate, incremental launch of their new Social Reports.

 

“The new social reports take into account the total number of conversions that happen to visitors that had touched a social media channel connected with the account.”

 

Find Out More: http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2161938/New-Google-Analytics-Social-Reports-Measure-SMM-Value-View-Streams

Via Antonino Militello, Robin Good, David Blundell, Khaled El Ahmad

Inadvertently or not, Twitter's redesigners are following the advice of tech impresario Sean Parker--and taking a page from Facebook. Read this blog post by Paul Sloan on Digital Media.

Via Level343, roberto toppi