CRM Update – Jun 02 : 2:47 pm

Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up-to-date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.What’s New This Week?Facebook Gives Granularity to Page Admin Roles: Businesses with Facebook Pages can now set five different roles for their admins: Manager, Content Creator, Moderator, Advertiser and Insights Analyst.  This is a useful tool for Facebook managers.Businesses on Facebook can now grant page admins varying degrees of permissions, depending on their role…

Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president who was ousted from office during an uprising last year, was sentenced by a judge Saturday to life in prison for the killing of unarmed protesters during what has become known as the Arab Spring.
Social media played a key role in the uprising that began in January 2011 on the Day of Rage — a protest of Mubarak’s 30-year rule. It acted as a means of large-scale organization, coming together partly because of a Facebook Page, and also as an amplifier for the events happening within the country, even as the government tried to shut down access…

Memorial Day may be over, but that doesn’t stop HalfOffDeals from being patriotic. The daily deal site recently ran a promotion selling Restaurant.com eGiftCards. For every card purchased, HalfOffDeals donated $5 to the United Service Organization (USO) Care Package Program.
The USO care Package is a tool that helps the USO connect families to their loved ones deployed overseas. The care packages are sent to the families of the troops once their deployment begins, to let them know that even though they’re far away from each other, the soldier carries his or her family with him always…