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Protect Your Community – Dealing with Bad Actors

Shane’s post about protecting your community is a great read.

Building a house requires hard work and dedication. The end result is a place of comfort and security where your family can live and grow. If someone started shouting obscenities from your driveway for 30 minutes every morning, would you ignore them, or would you take action to protect your family?

Building a community requires hard work and dedication too. It takes time to build trust and loyalty from community members. As its manager, you have a responsibility to protect your community from anything that threatens the culture of trust that took months or years to establish. So when someone says or does something inappropriate that threatens your community, what should you do?

via ShaneReiser.com

Google+ Pages Coming For Businesses

A lot of Google news this week.

Where are the Google+ company “Pages” for brands, something similar to Facebook’s “Fan Pages?” They’re coming apparently.

Google’s head of Commerce and Local Jeff Huber confirmed what some people were hoping for: the imminent arrival of Google+ pages for entities. This was in a comment on Mike Blumenthal’s blog:

And pre-emptively answering a question — yes, we will have (smb) business profile pages on Google+. I can’t announce a launch date yet, but we want to make them *great*, and we’re coding as fast as we can.

via Search Engine Land

Google Launches Google+ To Battle Facebook

Google has finally unveiled Google+, the company’s top secret social layer that turns all of Google into one giant social network.

Google+, which begins rolling out a very limited field test on Tuesday, is the culmination of a year-long project led by Google Senior Vice President of Social Vic Gundotra. The project, which has been delayed several times, is — without doubt — Google’s answer to Facebook.

via Mashable

 

Google City Sites May Compete With Yelp, Online Yellow Pages

Google is really hitting local hard looks to be very interesting.

Yesterday David Mihm was pointing out on Twitter that Google had created a number of new city sites or portals. They appear to be the phoenix rising out of the ashes of Hotpot. As Iwrote yesterday on my own blog, this is Google’s effort to bring a number of initiatives together in a single place: Places Pages, Offers, Mobile, Events and promotion of its ads/services to local business owners.

via: Search Engine Land

Facebook Page SEO

Facebook has teamed up with BrightEdge to educate the industry on Facebook page SEO.

Titled ‘Facebook for Social SEO,‘ the document gives brands and companies tips on the best practices to drive organic search performance for Facebook pages. We’ve embedded the white paper below. And the two companies will also conduct a webinar this month designed to get top brands better educated on improving rank of their pages.

via Techcrunch

Google Social Search goes global

Relevant social data has created a new industry. How is your Facebook page doing?

In 2009 we first introduced Social Search on google.com as an experimental feature designed to help you find more relevant information from your friends and the people you care about. Since then we’ve been making steady improvements to connect you with more people and more relevant web results. Today, we’re bringing Social Search to more users around the globe.

via Google Inside Search

5 Ways Social Media Has Changed Marketing Campaigns

Mashable has a great article about how Social Media has fundamentally changed how marketing campaigns are executed.

“Social media engagement.” It’s a phrase that generates a lot of buzz, but what does it actually mean? And, more importantly, why does it matter to companies that are integrating social media into their PR and marketing strategies?

We turned to some of the leading communication experts to discover the importance of sparking online engagement and how this new focus has forced PR, marketing and advertising campaigns to evolve.

via Mashable

Facebook Launches Deals

The Daily Deal space is heating up fast.

Facebook is kicking off its long-awaited Deals program to users in five major cities starting Tuesday with plans to expand in other cities soon after.

Facebook Deals, which will offer online discounts and deals from businesses to its users, marks the company’s entrance into what’s becoming a crowded group-buying deal market that already includes Groupon and LivingSocial.

Via VentureBeat