Google has selected six social media management firms to integrate their software with Google+. They include Buddy Media, Context Optional, Hearsay Social, Hootsuite, Involver and Virtue, which were chosen for their “extensive experience helping brands and businesses manage and analyze their presence on social networks,” according to a press release from Google. Hopefully this will temporarily solve the problem of Google+ limiting page administrator rights to one person until Google incorporates multiple admins into the business pages.
Trying to fund-raise online? A JustGiving study shows that Twitter users, on average, donate more money than Facebook users; ($48 dollars compared to $29, by their estimates). Facebook users, however, are more likely to give a donation – members account for an overwhelming 97 percent of social media-driven donations.
One in six job seekers found their current or most recent job through a social network. According to Jobvite survey responders, 78 percent attribute their job to Facebook, 42 percent mentioned Twitter and 40 percent credited LinkedIn.
YouTube is currently testing a major, full-site redesign that incorporates Google+, places a higher importance on subscriptions and generally gives the site a sleeker look and feel. A completion date for the redesign has yet to be announced.
It’s been a little over a week since Google+ launched business pages and approximately 61 percent of the world’s top 100 brands have created pages. Their engagement with followers is yet to come. Combined, these top brands have a collective following by about 148,000 Google+ users, while they collectively boast 300 million fans on Facebook.
Bing has launched a new search feature that provides users with a list of Editor’s Picks that correspond to the searched keywords. They’ve started with 140 topics, but plan to expand the number of hand-picked results as it catches on with searchers.
Today we’ll leave you with this neat video created by Twitter’s in-house data visualization specialist Miguel Rios that shows the number of tweets about last Friday’s special date, 11/11/11. See if you can pick up the two big waves of tweets at 11:11 a.m. and p.m.