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Facebook Reader a welcome feature

Sherrilynne Starkie

Google will soon shelve Reader and this has created a lot of panicky online noise from ardent fans. Earlier this month, rumours about Facebook’s possible Google Reader replacement erupted when mentions of RSS feeds appeared in Facebook’s code. Do you use Google Reader? Facing the música: I select a Google Reader replacement.

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Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Opinion , Social Media > Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators by Tamar Weinberg on September 23, 2009 Share This is a guest post from Josh Schnell, founder of Macgasm.net and web developer.

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3 Reasons Why Pinterest May Succeed Where Google+ Has Failed

SocMed Sean

The results are uniquely crowd-sourced aggregations and classifications of content from across the Web. And what about Google+? Google’s entry into the social space started with a big bang and, just as rapidly, fizzed. So what does Pinterest have that Google+ doesn’t? So Why Now? Easy-peasy-rice-and-cheesy.

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Hootsuite Hacks: 19 Tricks and Features You Probably Didn’t Know About

Hootsuite

For this article we quizzed the Hootsuite customer success team—people who spend their days deep in the gears of everyone’s favourite dashboard—about what little-known, under-appreciated features they pass on to social media managers day in and day out. Post visuals from Google Drive or Dropbox. Install the free Shopview app here.

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Fun and Features Take Center Stage in MINI’s #asktheNEWMINI Video Campaign

Convince & Convert

Positioned as an online “meet & greet” for the new MINI , fans are encouraged to submit questions across Facebook , Twitter , Instagram and Google+. The company then selects ten questions weekly for the new MINI to answer in a 15-second video filled with vrooms, tire marks, close-ups on features and even the occasional cheekiness (e.g.

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Top Five: Social networks invest in quality news

Sherrilynne Starkie

This week’s must-know social media news for marketing and communications professionals includes headlines about Facebook’s attempt to clean up, support for journalism from Twitter and Google, the continuing importance of links in SEO and some new, clever features from LinkedIn. LinkedIn is a crucial platform for businesses.

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Online reputation monitoring: What it is and why it’s important for business

Sprout Social

Reputation monitoring software to try What features to look for in a reputation management software What is online reputation monitoring? This might include lag times in customer care or figuring out that your customers at large might not understand a feature of your product. How is online reputation monitoring done? The reality?