Social Media News Roundup

There is tremendous buzz in social media circles over recent changes at Facebook and Twitter. Twitter is changing its interface to be more like Facebook, and Facebook (in addition to visual changes of its own), has been showing our Page posts to fewer and fewer people. The day is coming, we believe, when all page posts will have to pay to be seen; will you pay? Or move your activity to Twitter or Google+?

Here is a roundup of what we've been reading:

Social Media Strategies

• 26 Engaging Content Ideas for Social Media (Social Media Today)
• Post Smarter: The Best Times to Use Social Platforms (Entrepreneur)

Decline of Free Facebook Reach

• Is Facebook Too Big to Care? (New York Times' Bits Blog)
• Facebook is gradually eliminating organic reach for brands. Obviously. (Pando Daily)
• Why Is Facebook Page Reach Decreasing? More Competition And Limited Attention (TechCrunch)
• Your Facebook Page's Organic Reach Is About to Plummet (Social Media Today)

Facebook Management

• 5 Facebook Page Tools to Improve Your Page Management (Social Media Examiner)

Reconsidering Google+

• Study: Fan Engagement On Google+ Narrowly Trails Facebook, Nearly Doubles Twitter (Marketing Land)
• Report: Google+ Brand Posts Get Twice the Engagement of Tweets (Mashable)
• Google Plus Adds View Count to Profiles and Pages (The Social Media Hat)

Twitter Tips

• 14 Ways to Write a Customer-Gripping Tweet (Konrad Sanders for Andrea Vahl)

Twitter's Redesign

• Twitter redesign looks a lot like Facebook (The Verge)
• Coming soon: a whole new you, in your Twitter profile (Twitter blog)