While Twitter seems be all the rage these days, Facebook’s new fan pages for businesses offers entrepreneurs a new way to build brand recognition “build brand recognition, keep customers updated on the latest happenings, and get them inside your stores.” Lisa Barone’s post on SmallBizTrends offers some quick steps for how to create your Facebook Fan page to get the most out of it.

According to Zillow’s David Gibbons, blogging is so 2008. This comment created a quite a discussion on line that culminated with this vlog by David explaining in detail what he means. It’s worth the 10 minutes to better understand what it mean to consistently reevaluate your marketing strategics year after year.

Despite the death toll within the newspaper industry, smaller newspaper are persevering according to TechCrunch.

ComScore published this chart naming the top 20 countries for social media engagement. Russia tops the list followed by Brazil and Canada third. Read more on ThisIsHerd.

From Programmable Web this week – How to add GEO data to your blog posts