Social Media Sunday Surprise! #1

This new section will acquaint you with the latest happenings over the past week in social media. 

( I hope you will like it, I am always game for feedback)

1. Google+ is very much in the social media race:

When we all were consuming the rumor of  G+ being shut this came as a sudden surprise, in the past week Google+ came up with it's first mammoth redesigned user Interface since its inception, the android and iOS designs were also made from scratch.

As per Google, this time they have taken into consideration all the research they have churned over the years to create the right mix of content what people really wanna see. Hoping this time they are able to make the cut. (read more here)

2. Facebook is up for a noble cause:

 Facebook recently took major steps to uplift the working mechanism of NGOs/NPOs. Facebook rolled out two ways to pump up the fund collection:

• Fund raising: Now see the collections for the causes you feel and contribute to it.

  (read more here)

  
• Donate button surfaces: Do you feel for a cause? Now Donate in the Facebook environment.

  (read here more)

  

3. Twitter is on a roll with Emojis and polls:

Twitter soon will be introducing a wide variety of emojis. This will for sure give us the marketers to create fun stuff around the content. (read more here)

Twitter will soon expand it's limited polls into multi optional and time independent polls. Good news for all of us. (read more here)

4. Tumblr catches the gif fever:

Tumblr has made the tedious task of making the very talked about animated images aka gifs a cake walk. This feature has been introduced among the iOS users only, you don't have to do anything:

• logon to the app
• click on video/ image burst
• Voila! you have created your personalized gif 
  (read more here)

5. A recent research showed, smaller text copy contributed in high CTRs on facebook. (read more here)

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