- Nourison has launched a social media campaign to help fund research to find a cure for diabetes. The campaign is utilizing Facebook and Pinterest in its "You Click, We'll Give" campaign. For more information on this story please read http://www.homeaccentstoday.com/article/556224-Nourison_social_media_campaign_funds_diabetes_research.php
- Swix recently released a new platform for measuring social media ROI aimed at providing tools for online marketers looking to make an impact on proving ROI. The new platform called SourceMetrics analyzes leads, clickthroughs, and conversions and provides publishing, campaign management, and social media monitoring. For more information on this story please read http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/2012/10/11/sourcemetrics-launches-platform-for-measuring-social-media-roi/
- The popular social media publishing tool Buffer has announced a new release to their offer enhancing real-time analytics for Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook. For more details on the new product offering please read http://www.pamil-visions.net/buffer-social-media-tracking/238208/
- Playground.fm, a free music service for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad launched today providing "human powered radio" allowing users to collaboratively listen to and share music from their libraries. For more information on this story please read http://venturebeat.com/2012/10/11/playground-fm-the-social-pandora-launches-its-free-music-discovery-app/
- With tonight's Vice Presidential debate only hours away, various social media outlets are beginning to heat up, including Twitter. Several stories have been posted about the upcoming debate, one being a blog post from Alabama.com which has an interesting take. For more details please read http://blog.al.com/live/2012/10/twitter_already_stirring_over.html