The LinkedIn iPad app has finally arrived. The app is designed to be a personal assistant, with features such as calendar integration and a focus on LinkedIn’s personalised news feed, which showcases popular news articles and updates.
LinkedIn’s Signal is another tool that can be applied to your LinkedIn account. Signal allows you to filter and browse only relevant status updates from your LinkedIn streams. You can target updates from colleagues, competitors, etc. The tool also allows you to narrow or expand your view based on the following filters: network, industry, company, time published and location.
This month we provide you with a book dedicated to LinkedIn. Social networking Guru Neal Schaffer’s Windmill Networking: Understanding, Leveraging & Maximizing LinkedIn, explores the potential for professional and personal networking through LinkedIn. This book goes beyond the “business” genre to expand upon the world of social media marketing, branding, and career management.
Not long now until March 30th when Facebook roll out the timeline update to the business pages. The Timeline is a cosmetic change to the format for displaying content on Facebook profiles. The Timeline format makes Facebook content more engaging and highlights the history associated with the page in a chronological order that makes it easier to navigate to older material. Take a look at the TLC Business Facebook page.
TouchRetouch HD is an app that lets you remove unwanted content or objects from your photos, using just your finger and iPad. This is a great app for editing shadows, wires, blemishes, or even a person that you want to remove from your photograph.
Pixable is a new app which sorts images from your Facebook and Twitter feeds into piles such as “Top of the Day,” “New on Twitter” and “New Profile Pics,” making them easy to view and interact with. The app is accessible via the web and can be downloaded from the iTunes store for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch.
Tweeb Twitter app focuses on Twitter analytics such as followers, click-through rate, retweets and mention rate. Tweeb’s “summary” page gives you a great overview on whether your click rate and follower rate has been improving or slowing down.
The premier app for Google Analytics, Analytics App, now debuts on the iPad as Analytics HD! This is the only Analytics app for the iPad with segmentation. The app allows you to see charts and reports like you've never seen them before.
Mentioned in our blog this week, Google Alerts is a useful tool to monitor what is being said about your brand. Google Alerts are email updates that are sent to you for whatever keyword or phrase you decide to set the alert. As soon as your name is mentioned anywhere on the Internet, you are sent an alert immediately.
