This week's hot news, events and videos from the online marketing and social media world.

From the Position² Blog This Week:



SMBs and Social Media Marketing: Prepping up for 2012



Part One: Growth Projections, Email Marketing, Mobile Marketing

Part Two: Social Media Channels: Facebook, Twitter, Google+

• From the Pros: 30 Social Media Predictions for 2012.
• Top 5 Trends: Search & Social Media Marketing in 2012.
• Social Business: Why Social Media Doesn't Mean Business.
• Study: Emerging ... Read more...

In the third and final installment of the 'Three Major Demographics for Online Marketers' series, the Position² research team looked at the importance of marketing to women and how brands can benefit from one of the largest audiences online. Women, who make up for the majority of users on many popular social networking channels, have established a strong presence on the social web. Snippets from a recent study by ComScore show that:

• The average time spent online by women is 24.8 hours, compared to men who spend approximately 22.9 hours.
• In April 2010, women accounted for 16.3% of the average time spent on various social networks, as against the 11.7% average ... Read more...

We're delighted to announce a series of new updates to the Brand Monitor™ platform, and to give you a heads-up on some of the exciting features we're working on!

Enhanced Daily Alerts, Reports and other Functionality Improvements

• Brand Monitor™ now has a new "Deep Dive" section under "Reports" which gives you a more detailed media breakup for each search bucket along with sentiment analysis. In phase two of our "Deep Dive" release, we will add advanced filtering functionality here.
• Daily email alerts will contain data with a "high relevance score", which means more focused and useful data into your inbox.
• You can now set a default relevance score for each search topic.
• Brand Monitor now has a new Tag Cloud for ... Read more...

We're delighted to announce a series of new updates to the Brand Monitor™ platform, and to give you a heads-up on some of the exciting features we're working on!

Post Relevance

Brand Monitor™ is now powered by an enhanced relvance scoring engine, that you can control. Available under "Filters", you can choose varying levels of relevance; this changes the stream of posts accordingly.

We do this by giving each post a "score" for relevance when compared to a search keyword. By default, "High Relevance" is selected, and posts with "Low" or "Medium" relevance scores are not shown.

If you don't see too many posts in the stream for a particular keyword, try changing the relevance filter to "Medium" ... Read more...