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Welcome to my Thursday feature. Here’s where I link three useful and interesting articles from excellent information sources all about social media and marketing subjects.

As you know, changes are always happening in the world of social media. We have a lot to keep up with!

Social media has past the point of simply being a hobby and is now a standard for business. Proof of that is how social is impacting our companies. Mashable lists some of these impacts in their latest, “5 Powerful Ways Social Media Has Forever Altered The Way We Do Business.” How many of them have already affected the way you work?

Facebook, with its 50 million+ business pages, seems to know what it takes to keep being successful. Now Facebook Is Wooing Small Businesses in order to increase the popularity of its advertising platform since only 3 million of those business pages are currently paying for ads. Forbes is predicting that Facebook ads will be one of the next avenues of growth for this social media standout.

Sounds like Twitter is looking to get into the live video market in a big way by launching apps to stream video on TV. CNBC reported that the company is introducing new live streaming video apps for Apple, Xbox, and Amazon – incorporating NFL games into their offerings. This is quite the switch from the social platform’s branding so watching where the site goes next should be interesting.

See you next week with another edition of Top Three Thursday: Social News You Can Use.

Melody Jones is your social media aspirin. She helps take the pain out of social media for you! Check out her services and see which one can reduce your social media pain the most.

Welcome to my Thursday feature. Here’s where I link three useful and interesting articles from excellent information sources all about social media and marketing subjects.

As you know, changes are always happening in the world of social media. We have a lot to keep up with!

Using the 10 Laws of Social Media Marketing from Entrepreneur.com will help you immensely. Susan Gunelius writes on limiting yourself to what you determine is most important in using social media and building your company. You might be in for the long haul to get the audience size you desire, so work with perseverance. Use networking through social media to find the people who can both educate you and who can join forces with you to share and share alike. Don’t forget to publicly and privately thank and praise your network.

We keep talking about Snapchat but that’s because they keep making the news! According to Social Media Today, Snapchat is Now Serving 10 Billion Video Views Per Day! There is plenty of speculation about what the popularity of this app among the younger demographic could mean for social media and business. Check out the article to find out more about the recent statistics behind the Ghostface.

What’s the latest move from our friends at Twitter? Well, looks like the website is hoping to promote more connections from its accounts. Twitter Launches Connect Tab to Help You Discover New Accounts and Content posted by We Are Social Media reports on the recent changes our favorite bird has made and what that might mean for companies depending on Twitter engagement.

See you next week with another edition of Top Three Thursday: Social News You Can Use.

Melody Jones is your social media aspirin. She helps take the pain out of social media for you! Check out her services and see which one can reduce your social media pain the most.