To help you stay up-to-date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.

What’s New This Week?

Google+ Hangouts On Air Now Available Worldwide: Google+ Hangouts On Air was launched last September to a limited number of broadcasters and is now rolling out to the rest of the world.  This means “you can now go live in front of a global audience.” Here’s a reminder of what you can do:

Facebook Announces The App Center: The App Center is a new place for people to find social apps. “For the over 900 million people that use Facebook, the App Center will become the new, central place to find great apps”

“Everything has an app detail page, which helps people see what makes an app unique and lets them install it before going to an app.”

What You Need To Know About Facebook’s IPO: Facebook’s initial public offering is expected to take place on May 18.

Discussion from our Networking Clubs: Thousands of social media marketers and small business owners are asking questions and helping others in our free Networking Clubs. Here are a few interesting discussions worth highlighting:

• Do you think of your blog as a social network?
• What are your favorite productivity apps?
• What’s your experience with Facebook Offers?

Google+ Notifications in Gmail Get More Interactive: You can now view, comment on and +1 Google+ notifications from your Gmail inbox. These updates will appear in your Google+ stream in real time and responses from others will appear in Gmail.

You can adjust which Google+ notifications you want emailed to your Gmail account via Google+ settings.

Google Offers Get Closer to Your Business: Android users in the U.S. can now find Google Offers from nearby businesses using the latest release of Google Maps. You will be able to “see all the Google Offers near you in list or map form, making it easy to get great deals from local businesses on the go.”

Twitter Tweaks the Tweet Design: “Now, when you hover over the newly redesigned tweet, you’ll always see options to reply, favorite or retweet in the lower-left corner against a grey background.”

This design modification makes it easier to interact with others on Twitter.com.

Tumblr Introduces Storyboard: Storyboard is Tumblr’s “new hub for in-depth conversations with Tumblr’s creative community.”

Foursquare Adds a History Page: With the “new, fully searchable history page, you can easily jump to all your past check-ins from any month or year, and even filter them by who you were with, what type of place you were at, or which neighborhood, city, or country you were in.”

Foursquare will be “adding more features like filtering by venue and adding tips or creating lists right from this history page.”

Groupon Rewards Launches Nationwide in the U.S.: “When you visit a participating Groupon Rewards merchant and use the credit card saved in your Groupon account, Rewards are unlocked after you’ve spent a certain amount predetermined by the business.”

“Eliminating the hassles of check-ins, extra apps or punch cards, with Groupon Rewards you can automatically get benefits for things you already do.”

Here are a few useful social media tools worth noting:

WP Pinner: A WordPress plugin that lets you manage your Pinterest account. “With this plugin you can easily auto-pin WordPress posts, schedule your pins throughout the day, auto-follow users to get noted and keep track of your account (CTR, clicks, likes, repins, reach, etc.).”

Lujure: An easy tool for businesses to customize Facebook fan pages.

Lujure is a simple, quick tool you can use, with no technology expertise at all, to customize your own Facebook page.

Curate Me: A tool to help you stay current, find good things to share and get content ideas.

Curate Me finds the best stories from your friends and the brilliant people you follow and delivers them straight to your inbox.

And don’t miss this:

Social Media Examiner’s Social Media Success Summit 2012  (online conference) just started. It’s not too late to join!

Join 27 social media experts at Social Media Examiner’s big online conference! Go here to learn more.

What social media news caught your interest this week? Please share your comments below.

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Want to get found on Google quickly and easily? The video below offers some fantastic general information from Matt Cutts at Google!

Today I read a fantastic post by Gareth Case, who happens to be a marketer with twelve years of experience under his belt.

You can read the post here.

The above mentioned post contains some great information on the how and why social media matters.

Here at ASAP pm we can help your business utilize these tools to their fullest extent, help jump start or boost your marketing efforts!

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Simply supply us with your catalog as a PDF document and before you know it, you’ll have your customers flipping through the pages of your new digital catalog within minutes!

You can view an example of our catalog here: ASAP PM Catalog

It’s been a while since I’ve written a post here about something web related!

ASAP Print Management is all about innovation, and finding new ways to market brands and businesses.

We are now able to embed a company logo inside a QRQuick Recognition codes... Code that is 100% functional and looks great!

I will be amending this post shortly with some more examples of QR codes with logos embedded in them.

Quick Response codes have been around for a little while now, but not many people know what exactly they are for.

Wikipedia Says:

A QRQuick Recognition codes... code (short for Quick Response) is a specific matrix barcode (or two-dimensional code), readable by dedicated QR barcode readers and camera phones. The code consists of black modules arranged in a square pattern on a white background. The information encoded can be text, URL or other data.

Quick Response codes are a great way of sharing information with a single photo! ASAP Print Management is able to generate these QR codes for our clients, and have them link to anything you could possibly want!

The QR code attached to this post will take you to another service that ASAP Print Management is offering which is a web based business card that is formatted for mobile devices.

Scan the code to view my web based business card, or click here to view it in a regular browser. Keep in mind the page conforms to the size of the browser window.

For more information, please contact us and we can discuss your plans for QR codes!

I’m now working on the mobile portion of the website.

The goal is to ensure you can get the information you want as quickly and painlessly as possible.

Building a mobile website is a lot more difficult than it seems, as there are many different devices that render images and text many different ways.

The mobile section will look great once the graphics guys are done with it!

Building your website is a task that you should not take lightly!

This website will be the culmination of a ton of blood, sweat and tears. Throughout the development of this website I am sure I will bleedPrinting that extends to the edge of a sheet or page after trimming., sweat, and cry at least once each….

In the end, it’s what I love to do and this will be my greatest piece of work EVER!