Persuasive Picks for week of 2/6/12

Those who succeed in social media and those having the ability to influence the behavior of others are master storytellers, writes Joshua Leatherman in this SocialMediaToday story An Essential Key to Social Media Influence: Tell Your Story Well.

Damian Hagger talks about the growing trend of niche social communities and what that means for marketers in The Rise of Hypersocial via iMediaConnection.

MarketingProfs contributor Paul Fabrietti takes a look at the latest news that Pinterest is making money off our interactions and asks Has Pinterest Broken a Golden Rule? What do you think?

Are you receiving awards for your social content discovery, curation and recommendations? Adam Vincenzini of The Next Web provides some of the hottest new content monetization platforms in This week’s best new social media tools.