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Are you already promoting your products and services on social sites like Facebook, Twitter and Google+, etc. You have one more platform called Pinterest. Take your SME to the next level with the help of Pinterest

Businesses that went social with their products and services tasted success. In fact, popular social sites such as Google+ and Facebook are offering exclusive schemes for businesses in general and SMEs in particular to cash in on the opportunity. And that's when social media marketing gathered momentum.

Well, social media marketing has now become the order of the day. It has created a buzz across the globe, though many in India still don't know how to use this effectively for their growth and expansion.

However, the story in the West and other developed markets are different. They are already grappling on social sites like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, etc and their success stories are awe-inspiring.

They have now started experimenting with new social sites like Pinterest.

Recently launched, Pinterest has now become the fastest social site to cross the 10 million unique visitor-mark in history. A comScore survey says this innovative social site had registered an average growth of 52 per cent from January to February, 2012, and garnered a mind-blowing 17.8 million users.

This success has evoked a keen interest among businesses around the globe, as they sensed a huge opportunity. As a matter of fact, a few industries in the US have already begun to use it.

The registration process is simple. To join Pinterest, one needs to apply or be invited by somebody. Users can create online virtual pin boards, to which they can pin images. Multiple boards can be created and sorted by their content, and comments can be added. Users can browse through the various boards and follow their creators, and can like images or re-pin them to their own boards.

According to a top executive with a social media consultancy in the US, Pinterest provides a channel to interested consumers and can drive traffic back to a businesss website. It is visual-based and it makes it distinctive from other social sites.

In the country, Pinterest hit the bull's-eye, as its visual nature made it particularly appealing to visual-based businesses, such as weddings websites. The same feature has proved to be popular with the graphic design community, too, for it provides a simple way of visually communicating with clients.

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The communications minister of the Palestinian Authority (PA) has resigned, accusing senior officials of clamping down on critics and stifling freedom of expression.

Abu Daqa announced he was stepping down late Thursday, and revealed that the PAs attorney general had ordered Palestinian Internet service providers to block access to at least eight websites critical of PA President Mahmoud Abbas over the past six months, the BBC reports.

The websites were reportedly loyal to one of Abbas most strident opponents, Mohammed Dahlan, a former Gaza Strip security chief who was kicked out of the Fatah movement which dominates the PA in June after accusing the president of weakness and corruption.

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Daqa said the Internet crackdown was bad for the image of the Palestinian Authority in the world, and pointed out that the websites could continue to reach users by switching to other domains, according to the Associated Press.

The PAs crackdown was also criticized in Washington. US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Thursday: We are concerned about any uses of technology that would restrict access to information.

Weve had these concerns in other parts of the world, and we wouldnt want to see the PA going in the direction that some of those regime have gone in, she added.

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Palestinian communications minister quits over Internet censorship

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev denied the existence of censorship in the Russian media in his last interview as president on Thursday, saying any signs of censorship must be scrutinized by government.

I will repeat that censorship is prohibited by the Constitution and if it appears somewhere it should be the subject of state investigation, Medvedev said in an interview with Russian TV journalists.

Medvedev made the comments after state TV channel journalists told Medvedev their management restricted the list of politicians that could be invited for interview under the pretext of political rationale.

Medvedev said however it was down to the heads of media outlets to ensure topical news made the mainstream.

The president, who proposed establishing a public TV channel independent of political influence in December last year, also expressed hope that the new channel, which is due to be set up in January 2013, would have no political position and be free from bias.

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By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 4/27/2012 12:08:47 PM RELATED: FCC Votes to Post TV Station Political Files Online

Sounding every bit the Harvard lawyer, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski Friday attempted to pick apart broadcaster arguments against posting online public file reporting requirements the FCC voted to adopt at its public meeting, saying their desire to exclude spot pricing from political files would have been censorship and fly in the face of plain congressional language to the contrary.

The chairman said that opposition to the proposal had morphed over time. One argument, he said, was that there was not need to post public files online because they were readily available at stations. He countered that FCC staffers had been dispatched to Baltimore to test that theory. The result, he said, was that it took 61 hours to collect from eight stations at a copying cost of about $1,700.

Next, he said, the argument was that it was technically infeasible. That was a hard argument to sustain, he said, particularly given that businesses everywhere, including broadcasters, were routinely moving info online.

Then came "burden and cost," he said. The burdens were dramatically overstated he said, and the costs likely were from about $80 to $400.

Then, he said, the arguments moved to political files. He said broadcaster compromise proposals to only include aggregate totals online and keep the spot prices in files at stations would be censoring information the Congress explicitly required in campaign reform law that stations publicize. The question, he said, was whether making those public mean locked away in filing cabinets or readily available online. He suggested the answer was simply common sense.

As to arguments that the information was already available through the FEC, he repeated that the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform law required broadcasters to make the information public.

He said he was not surprised that broadcasters had opposed the requirement. He pointed out they had fought the political file reporting requirement all the way to the Supreme Court back in 2002 before losing.

He did say he appreciated the "small group" of broadcasters who recognized the value of online public file postings and had worked "valiantly" on a workable proposal.

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