For many small businesses, they need to promote their companies very well through the power of social media.

Google's Schemer is a direct reaction to Foursquare, geography based social apps for mobile devices and social media websites. It looks like Schemer will be integrated into Google's Plus platform, which was released earlier this year.

New analytics platform was just released for Youtube, this comes off Google's vast metrics and analytics knowledge to provide in-depth details and demographics for the Youtube admin. It will help you build and construct positive campaigns that can get you the right customers or results you'll looking for.

Chime.in is a fresh, new social media website that incorporates other social media sites into "chimes", which are small, real time blips of information. You can set your chimes to come in from other networks like Facebook, Twitter, and blogs. Check it out, it was just released this past Monday.

Interesting blog post about Diaspora, a new social media to be released within the year. Has some awesome features and is fully user controlled. BUT, unlike Facebook that takes ownership of all your media!! Diaspora does not, they give all rights to the user and privacy laws.

PPCIan Gives some valuable tips on how to get a good more facebook fans using a little investment.

With these recent events in mind, a patent filing from Google that shows social features seems significant. Bill Slawski of SEO by the Sea first reported this news and suggested that it could be a clue into what Google’s social network could look like.

On March 11th, Facebook will severely deprecate FBML (Facebook Markup Language) and that means you can no longer build Facebook fan pages or apps using FBML! FBML will be replaced by the NEW Facebook iFrame Pages. The question is, are you ready?

A new and improved way of auto surf traffic generation, now known as social traffic exchange! Autosurfing used to be a great way to generate traffic, I say “used to” because in recent months and years things have changed, nowadays traffic exchange programs have gone social particularly with a new network known as Thumbvu. Thumbvu have moved with the times and leveraged ways to be more focused towards Social Marketing.

Today I decided to list my 11 Top email marketing tracking software tips that I hope will benefit someone on the important of email marketing. These tips are coming from my years as an email marketer and the do’s and don’t s I have accoutered.