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Pinterest is easy to use and even easier on the eyes, which are two reasons that traffic to the online pinboard keeps pouring in.  In December 2011, Pinterest received 11 million visits in a week – that’s a 400% growth in just six months. If you’ve got pretty things to sell, this infographic from LinchPin SEO can show you how to use the site to turn heads.

The word “pretty” can apply to a lot of things. Obviously, bakers should take advantage of the forum.  Readers love to see rows of beautiful cupcakes, especially if there’s a recipe attached. And photographers and designers can obviously use the site to show off their style.

But it also works for things for sales and promotions, like printable coupons. Thrifty shoppers will take one look at those dashed lines around a discount and immediately hit the print button.  And as we’ve learned from Living Social and Groupon, they’ll also pass it along to their friends.

You can also post fun infographics, like “how much should you spend on an engagement ring?” This would work for a jewelry store or, really, a bridal blog or magazine. Readers love infographics (admit it, you do) and so do the writers who get to post them because they’re so easy to digest and share.

Pinterest is not limited to pictures, either. The site is also good for posting videos if you’ve got a product demo or just a fun, viral video to share.

There are a bunch more great tips on this pinboard, especially the one for pet adoption agencies. Who could resist a picture of a cute dog that needs a good home?

Infographic by LinchPin SEO via Pinterest.

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Recently, the FBI busted the founders of the file hosting service MegaUpload.com for copyright infringement on a massive scale. Now it looks like the the government agency is in the market for a social media application to help them foresee and respond to crises.

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It’s been just over a month since YouTube launched their major site redesign, but it looks like they’re not done yet!  Today they’ve announced updates to the Browse page, Video Editor and Video Manager.  Read on to find out what’s new. continued…

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In itself, reading is a quiet, solitary activity that’s best for rainy afternoons spent in an oversize chair. But the ideas and experiences that an author shares can unite people throughout history and all over the world. I recently checked out Copia, a site that connects your favorite books, your friends and your eReading devices to create a more social reading experience.

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In the latest episode of “Elevator Pitch,” host Alan Meckler talks with entrepreneur Ella Gorgla about her startup, I-Ella, an online marketplace where users can buy, swap, sell, and borrow clothes, accessories, and shoes.

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On December 13th, 2011, Twitter users all over Japan broke a record by tweeting about during a television screening of Miyazaki’s Castle in the Sky — it’s a famous anime that is known by all Japanese and Japanese tweeters tweeted quotes from the show during the entire program.  That was the world record for message per second on a social network until the first minute of Chinese New Year, Monday January 23rd, when Chinese users broke the Twitter record on their own version of Twitter, Sina Weibo.

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AJ Kohn over at Blind Five Year Old has put together what must be the most rigorous, complete Google+ SEO guide around, and it’s going viral like gangbusters.  It looks at the various angles of how Google+ is impacting search, and then follows it with a best practices section which explains how to leverage this new system to ensure your posts are properly search engine optimized.

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Books make great conversation starters, especially online. At the Digital Book World Conference 2012 in New York, industry veterans encouraged publishers to let their hair down and have some fun with social media to engage their readers.

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One in three small businesses are using social media and, as this number grows, a social media presence has become something that customers have come to expect.  But for businesses that have yet to dive in to the social media arena, it can be a little bit overwhelming.  How do you know which networks you need to build a presence on and how do they work?  Flowtown and Column Five have put in the work so you don’t have to – they’ve put together a Social Media Cheat Sheet for small businesses that covers the ins and outs of the social media ecosystem and can help you navigate the major social media sites on the web. continued…

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A new service, minglewing, has just launched recently and while it draws very heavily from Pinterest, it has a few tweaks that set it apart.  Primarily, there is a huge category bar at the top of the page which shows you the trending and topical categories within which to browse the “Wings”, as they call the posts on minglewing.  The second big difference is the smooth real-time updating interface, which lets you browse the site very fast.

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These days it is becoming increasingly important for businesses to have an online video presence.  Research shows that online video is 5.33 times more effective than text and consumers prefer seeing products or services in action before buying, not to mention the fact that online video has amazing SEO benefits.  But many businesses have preconceived notions about online video that are hard to overcome—they think that online video is expensive, difficult and time consuming.  In a recent webinar, VidCaster co-founder and CEO Kiernan Farr debunks these common misconceptions and teaches you ‘How to make effective videos for your business – without spending a dime!’ continued…

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Pinterest is hot as hot can be right now.  I get about an email a day from a Facebook friend who’s joined the service (nobody seems to be upset that it auto-informs everyone you know that you’ve joined up) and most of those people go on to use it for a while.  Sure, they don’t go Pin-crazy overnight, but they have some fun once they get the hang of it — it sure has an easier learning curve than Twitter did.

That’s why the clones are popping up, even in China.  The latest is “mulu.me”, which is pretty much a Pinterest for supporting other’s causes, buying stuff as well as goofing around.

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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to sleep over at your favorite celebrity’s house?  NYC comedian Mark Malkoff decided to find out.  He reached out to celebrities via Facebook, email and snail mail to ask them if he could sleep over at their houses during a visit to LA.  Much to his surprise, many celebrities including ‘Full House’ star David Coulier, Kate Walsh of ‘Private Practice’, iJustine, Lisa Loeb and more, said “yes!” continued…

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CNN iReport, CNN’s global participatory news community, announced earlier this week that they have surpassed one million registered contributors.  Over 1 million people iReporters from all over the world have submitted stories on topics from politics to entertainment, tech, health, living travel and more and the community is continuing to grow. continued…

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This is a guest post by Christian Arno, founder and managing director of professional translation-services provider Lingo24.

It’s hard to find a part of the world where social media isn’t popular. One ninth of the population has a Facebook profile, while hundreds of millions of tweets circle the globe each day. The opening of a Facebook-themed nightclub in a remote part of the Brazilian Amazon illustrates the network’s reach.

So it’s not surprising 90 per cent of marketers think social media is important for their business, according to a recent industry report. With Google’s decision to take social searching into account, this is likely to rise. continued…

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What does it mean to have a ‘social business’?  The term is thrown around more than a hot potato these days and nobody can seem to pinpoint its definition.  Does it mean a traditional business who engages in social media?  Does it mean a business that earns revenue using social media?  Does it mean a company that builds social media tools/networks?  The people over at Global Dawn wanted to sort it out, and came up with this sweet infographic to solve the case.

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I don’t know about you, but over the past few months my inbox has been flooded with notifications—”So-and-so is following you on Pinterest,” “What’s-his-name wants to be your friend on Path,” “Bruce Willis is now following you on Twitter!”  OK, Bruce Willis isn’t actually on Twitter, but if he was I’m sure he’d be following me.  Anyway, dealing with all those notifications can be a pain, but a couple of teen entrepreneurs, Ben Lang and Tim Kendall have taken it upon themselves to make your life easier with Notification Control – a service they put together to let you manage all of your social media email notifications from one place. continued…

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Inside Social Apps 2012 will be coming to San Francisco in just two weeks. The event, held on February 8-9, will bring together the industry’s leading developers for two days of panels, discussions, and networking around the social and mobile app ecosystem.

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The birth of the digital book has made it possible, at least in theory, to make social media part of the reading experience. But is reading really a social activity? At the Digital Book World Conference 2012, publishers and social media experts predicted the role that social media will play in connecting authors and readers of digital books.

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Google+ recently added video conferencing capabilities to its platform. Like Skype, you may have used Google+ hangouts to talk to your friends face-to-face for free using your computer. But have you used it to watch your local news?

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