15 May Social Chatter Episode 241: LinkedIn Polls & Virtual Events, What Marketers Need to Know Christian Karasiewicz | Agorapulse, Answer the Public, Canon EOS Webcam Utility, Christian Karasiewicz, Facebook Discover, Fusioncast, Jim Fuhs, LinkedIn Polls, LinkedIn Virtual Events, Scott Ayres, Social media marketing talk show, Social media news, social media news 2020 | Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Snapchat, Social Chatter, Social Media Marketing, TikTok, Twitter | 0 ShareTweetSharePinBufferWhatsAppEmail98 SharesShareTweetSharePinBufferWhatsAppEmail98 Shares Welcome to the 241st episode of Social Chatter, the longest running social media marketing talk show. We cover the latest social media news from this past week, including LinkedIn Polls, LinkedIn Virtual Events, a Pinterest Shopify app and more. Survey your audience with LinkedIn Polls. Build community with LinkedIn Live and LinkedIn Events using LinkedIn virtual events Pinterest launches Shopify app to upload catalogs to Pinterest and turn their products into shoppable Product Pins. New tool: Turn podcast episodes into videos with FusionCast. Use Answer the Public to find topics to write about for your customers. You can also watch or listen to Social Chatter on our blog, YouTube channel, podcast or the Alexa Flash Briefing. If you missed the last episode of our social media marketing talk show, we discussed Pinterest Board Notes with Christian Karasiewicz, Jim Fuhs, and Ian Anderson Gray, host of the Confident Live podcast. Let's see what's new in social media this week with, Christian Karasiewicz, Jim Fuhs and guest, Scott Ayres from Agorapulse. Social Chatter: Social Media Marketing Talk Show - Episode 241 LinkedIn Polls, Survey Your Network In LinkedIn news, they have launched LinkedIn Polls, a way to create lightweight polls in 30 seconds or less, across desktop and mobile. With LinkedIn Polls, you will be able to create polls and ask your network questions with up to four responses. You can ask questions that are up to 140 characters and four options. LinkedIn Polls can run for 1 day, 3 days, 1 week or up to 2 weeks. Here is a short video showing you how to survey your audience with LinkedIn Polls. This way you can gather feedback from your network. How to Use LinkedIn Polls To run a poll on LinkedIn, follow these steps. Go to LinkedIn Create a new post, cick on "create a poll" Pose a question with up to four answers Post your LinkedIn poll and review the results from your audience Why LinkedIn Polls Matter For Your Business LinkedIn Polls make it easy for you to survey people in your network. You can make the questions you ask strictly focused around your business. Alternatively, you can run polls to learn more about your audience. This way you can be sure you are creating the right type of content. Remember, once you create a poll, only the poll creator can see who voted. Your audience can see the poll you ran, but not who the respondents were. Here is a look at a LinkedIn Poll that Jim Fuhs created for us to test out this new feature. Run LinkedIn Virtual Events In addition to LinkedIn Polls, LinkedIn is merging live-streaming and events into LinkedIn Virtual Events. With LinkedIn Virtual Events you can build a community by combining LinkedIn Events with LinkedIn Live. You will then be able to do the following. Host events on your Company Page or use 3rd-party tools such as StreamYard, Restream or Wirecast. Invite your first-degree connections to your event. Add LinkedIn Virtual Events to a dedicated video tab on your Page. Why LinkedIn Virtual Events Matter For Your Business With more and more businesses working virtually, LinkedIn Virtual Events make it easy for you to reach more of your customers with help from LinkedIn Live and events. You no longer need to be in a physical location to host online events. You can run them directly from your LinkedIn Page and and build them online and even scale them. As a business owner, you can even tap into LinkedIn Polls to survey your network to see how you should structure your events and the type of content you should provide. LinkedIn Polls and Virtual Events are available now. If you need help creating your own virtual events, LinkedIn is offering a free course to teach you how. Other Social Media News Mentioned Here are some additional social media news topics that we covered on our weekly live social media marketing talk show that are worth checking out. Pinterest launches a Shopify app for uploading your Shopify product catalog to Pinterest to turn products into shoppable pins. New: #Pinterest partners with @Shopify, launches a dedicated app for better integrated shopping.#SocialChatter #SocialMedia #SMM https://t.co/85gGY0SvQN pic.twitter.com/ybeTX4nV3x — Social Chefs (@socialchefs) May 8, 2020 New Google Lens features to help you be more productive at home, including "copy text from paper to your laptop" and "word translation." New Google Lens features to help you be more productive at home, including the ability to copy text from paper to your laptop! #SocialChatter #SocialMedia #SMM pic.twitter.com/qHu1EspwsR — Social Chefs (@socialchefs) May 8, 2020 Turn your Canon camera into a webcam with new EOS webcam utility. New tool: Turn your compatible @CanonUSA camera into a high quality webcam with new EOS webcam utility.#SocialChatter #SocialMedia #SMM https://t.co/NNeOyZavDr pic.twitter.com/uLVqLujJdl — Social Chefs (@socialchefs) May 12, 2020 TikTok launching AR brand effect ads so users can add interactive visual effects in their TikTok videos. #TikTok working on #AR brand effect ads to let users add interactive visual effects from advertisers to their TikTok videos. For example, a car could zoom the length of the kitchen table in a virtual environment.#SocialChatter #SocialMedia #SMM https://t.co/IbU86HXnH0 pic.twitter.com/zI28uBPFyx — Social Chefs (@socialchefs) May 12, 2020 TikTok testing call-to-action button in videos. #TikTok testing "shop now" call-to-action buttons in #influencer videos.#SocialChatter #SocialMedia #SMM https://t.co/TZgdB2lcxR pic.twitter.com/KR6FObuaO9 — Social Chefs (@socialchefs) May 12, 2020 Snapchat announces new augmented reality lenses in collaboration with renowned artist Damien Hirst. IRL launches a web version of their aggregated live virtual events platform. IRL launches a web version of their calendar app for aggregating live #virtual events. #SocialChatter #SocialMedia #SMM https://t.co/BkOWIsWgmc pic.twitter.com/3EwK2f8er0 — Social Chefs (@socialchefs) May 12, 2020 Learn how to manage your Facebook communities and build connections with a new online series from Facebook. Announcing a "Community Connect Education Series" from #Facebook to help you learn how to manage your communities and create connections between community leaders.#SocialChatter #SocialMedia #SMM https://t.co/IKaL1jYunb pic.twitter.com/igRxcYCT47 — Social Chefs (@socialchefs) May 12, 2020 Facebook introduces Discover app, a "mobile web and Android app that can be used to browse any website using a daily balance of free data. Facebook launches small business tools to help you support local businesses. #Facebook is launching a series of #smallbiz tools to help people and businesses. These include:- Support Small Business" stickers for Facebook, Instagram- A major update to the Business Inbox in Messenger- And more#SocialChatter #SocialMedia #SMM https://t.co/6Zds1UAfz0 pic.twitter.com/YFwhSFC6b8 — Social Chefs (@socialchefs) May 11, 2020 Facebook provides tips to help you create a social media calendar for your business. WhatsApp may soon support 50 person video calls using Messenger Rooms. #WhatsApp may soon be supporting 50-person video calls through #Facebook Messenger Rooms. #SocialChatter #SocialMedia #SMM https://t.co/5UZi5wFJVB pic.twitter.com/NC2IivGFOu — Social Chefs (@socialchefs) May 12, 2020 Instagram is shutting down Instagram Lite - use the regular Instagram app for now. #Instagram shutting down "Instagram Lite," may re-launch the app.#SocialChatter #SocialMedia #SMM https://t.co/Nu23hShmxJ pic.twitter.com/pzrZ8sAiBF — Social Chefs (@socialchefs) May 12, 2020 Instagram launches tools to help you manage interactions on Instagram. #Instagram launches tools to help you manage unwanted interactions, such as negative comments, blocking or restricting multiple accounts, highlighting positive comments and more.#SocialChatter #SocialMedia #SMM https://t.co/GdjAJalv2y pic.twitter.com/Xcbfrmcajk — Social Chefs (@socialchefs) May 14, 2020 Social Media Experiments: Why Your Business Should Conduct Them This week on our social media marketing talk show, we also invited Scott Ayres to share tips on running social media experiments for your business. Here are the tips that he shared. Why Should A Business Experiment On Social Media? Yes. Try new things and constantly test something in your business. Do something new instead of always doing the same thing, especially if things are not driving the results you are looking for. Can You Share 2-3 Social Media Experiments That A Business Should Run? Adjust the time of day. Try switching up the time of day you post on social media and measure by looking at reach. Adjust photos - try just photos only and photos with text. Tools In addition to sharing the latest news from this past week, we also highlighted some great social media tools and apps for you to check out. Answer the Public The first tool that we have for you this week is Answer the Public. Are you out of ideas to write about or to create content for? With Answer the Public, you can quickly find out what questions consumers are looking for answers on and craft high-quality content for them. Simply enter in 1-2 words, the location of your audience and the language and Answer the Public will return instant, raw search insights to help you generate content ideas. You can try Answer the Public for free or upgrade to their Pro plan, which starts at $79 per month, which provides you with unlimited searches, unlimited users, the ability to compare data over time and more. Generate content ideas for your customers FusionCast, Turn Podcast Episodes Into Videos The second tool that we have for you this week is FusionCast. Do you have your own podcast? Have you thought about repurposing it on your Youtube channel or other social media channels? Instead of re-recording each episode, you can quickly turn your podcast episodes into videos using FusionCast. Simply drag-and-drop your audio file into the Editor, add a logo, and make any adjustments. In just a few minutes you will have a video file of your podcast! FusionCast is available on the Mac App Store for $7.99 or $6.99 on the FusionCast website. Turn podcast episodes into videos Wrap-up To sum it up, LinkedIn Polls and Virtual Events will help your business learn more from your customers and be able to deliver it from anywhere. To watch next week's episode of Social Chatter, your weekly social media marketing talk show, tune-in to our YouTube channel or watch on Facebook to learn about the latest breaking social media news from this week! If you have any questions about any of the social media news or tools that were mentioned this week, please share them with us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or in the comments below. About The Author Christian Karasiewicz Founder, Social Chefs Founder and CEO of Social Chefs, a digital marketing agency. I host two shows, #SocialChatter, the industries longest running social media marketing talk show and Social Snacks, 5 minute or less social media marketing tutorials. 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