
HootSuite added a suite of six Facebook-related features to its dashboard, citing the fact that of the 3 million daily messages sent via its platform, 40 percent are through the social network.

HootSuite added a suite of six Facebook-related features to its dashboard, citing the fact that of the 3 million daily messages sent via its platform, 40 percent are through the social network.
Lisa Raphael (left), the social media producer at Katie Couric's daytime talk show Katie, is one of our featured speakers in Mediabistro's upcoming Social Media Marketing Boot Camp, an online event and workshop starting June 6, 2013. Lisa will share a case study on how the hit show uses Twitter to build interest and buzz around upcoming segments. Learn more about our our twelve event speakers and register here. 
Social media management platform Spredfast added expanded support for post targeting for pages, which Facebook recently rolled out to pages with more than 5,000 likes.
Facebook officially confirmed reports earlier this week that page administrators can now target their page posts by various criteria, and not just location and language.
Facebook page administrators will soon be able to target their posts by various criteria, with the feature reportedly rolled out to some pages already, a marketer who was briefed by a Facebook representative told sister blog Inside Facebook.

International brands constantly face the challenge of launching a campaign or promotion that’s targeted toward a specific country, but must launch the application on their global brand page. That results in backlash from the fans located outside of the region where the offer is available.

Have any of your Facebook friends ever posted an update in another language? It’s happened to me and I had to choose between ignoring the update or cutting and pasting into Google Translate. But now a new tool from XIHA offers an easier way.
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With over 500 million users logging in to Facebook regularly, the site has become a global phenomenon. With that success, Facebook has entered into practically every country with internet access. With over 100 dialects and languages on the site Facebook is truly a global network. One of area that Facebook has focused heavily on is the Like button, which is now translated into every language. Today we’re bringing you on a tour of the “Like” button from countries and languages around the world.
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