6 Ways to Stay on Top of Social Media: Mashable

Cara Friedman is the president of Likeable Community College, a social media training program for community managers and other social media professionals.

To be successful in social media and community management you need to keep track of the constant changes to that ecosystem. That’s because everything you know about Facebook, Twitter, and other social spaces today will somehow be different in six months. Layouts will be altered, features will be added or removed, and new social networks may pop up.

So how should you keep track of all these moving parts? Here are six tips for staying on top of social media.

Twitter Search Adds “Search Within People You Follow”, Autocomplete, Related Results : techcrunch

Twitter has just implemented a massive set of improvements to search, allowing you to search just within tweets of people you follow, autocomplete, and related results including similar hashtags and usernames. These will all help you find what you’re looking for even if you’re unsure of the exact hashtag or someone’s handle.

Tech is getting more gay-friendly :CNN

James Lazar, right, of Chicago, didn't update his Facebook page to include his marriage until the icons changed.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• Facebook adds icons for users to commemorate same-sex weddings
• The icons look like cake toppers and show two men or two women
• Previously, same-sex married couples were given icons of a man and woman
• This is the latest example of tech companies pushing for LGBT inclusion

(CNN) -- James Lazar is married to a man. He won't buy anniversary cards that picture a man and a woman. He didn't want his Facebook page to show those symbols, either.

"I don't like being forced into typical gender roles -- because we aren't," he said by phone. "I think it's offensive."

Twitter to Announce a Big Search and Discovery Change Today : Mashable

Twitter has a big search and discovery announcement today, according to a tweet by the company’s Personalization and Recommender Systems Chief Pankaj Gupta.

“Search & discovery in @twitter set to change forever after tmrw,” tweeted Gupta Thursday, without giving away any other details.

It’s a long shot, but today’s possible announcement could be somehow tied to Twitter’s recent criticism of Google, after the company tightly integrated Google+ into its search results.