The Most Important Social Media Updates from this Week

Read the latest stories on what’s new in the social media universe!

How the World Consumes Social Media

If Pinky and the Brain taught us one thing, it’s that taking over the world is difficult. But then again, social media makes it look pretty easy.
Over the past decade social media usage has been one of the most rapidly and universally adopted activities since the invention of breathing. More than half of the world’s 2.4 billion Internet users sign in to a social network regularly — a figure that is rapidly increasing.
>> Read more at: Mashable
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The New MySpace: Music Meets Social, Done Right

The new MySpace is pretty. It incorporates many of the trends in modern web design and social media — big visuals, responsive design, easy discovery — and gives them a clear focus: connecting through music. And it really works.
You may remember the old MySpace (“MySpace Classic,” in the new site’s parlance). The old site was the one-time social media king, boasting more than 100 million users at its peak. However, it also had a Wild West reputation with a lot of NSFW content, chaotic user profiles (filled with tacky design and annoying auto-playing songs), and tons of spam accounts. When Facebook offered a cleaner, more manageable alternative, MySpace users abandoned the service in droves.
>> Read more at: Mashable
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Managing a Google+ Community

Tips for a successful community

Do:

1. Promote your community as a place where people can have conversations and share ideas
2. Participate in conversations by posting, leaving comments and +1′ing posts
3. Celebrate and engage with your members
4. Add moderators and invite them to manage content and share regularly
5. Add categories to help guide discussions
6. Listen to and learn from your community’s members

Don’t:

1. Just broadcast information
2. Only pose broad questions in the hopes of discussion and engagement
3. Invite people to join an empty community — write an initial post to set expectations and welcome new members
4. Leave your community unmoderated — check in on your community daily to make sure that the right kinds of conversations are happening.

>> Read more at: support.google