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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. 5 Google’s new publishing platform for local news.

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Facebook Reader a welcome feature

Sherrilynne Starkie

However, the social network has been working on Reader for more than year, according a report in the Wall Street Journal and is said to resemble Flipboard. This story was originally published on the Thornley Fallis blog. Related posts: Facebook graph search and your privacy. Have you found a replacement service yet?

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Social You Should Know—April Social Media Updates

Ignite Social Media

A lot happened this month in social media with most of the news centered around the Facebook privacy scandal. What we learned from that experience is that many people in Congress do not understand how social networks work and that Facebook has a lot of action items to follow up on. Facebook Faced Congress.

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Social Media Isn’t Conversation, It’s Publication

Socialized

None of this applies to the so-called online conversation: Anything you publish online could potentially be visible to millions of people. Twitter, for example, still has a thing called “ the public timeline &# where all tweets are reproduced and can be found by search engines and services that aggregate tweets.

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5 Social Networks That Are Alternatives to Twitter (Plus, What You Need to Know)

Buffer Social

The default network for new users at signup is “mastodon.social”, but you can choose whichever you want. Its founder has stated that he doesn’t mind if users publish ads on their servers but would do so at their own risk. Users can also choose to tip creators and publishers on the platform.

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A blogging #FollowFriday

The Way of the Web

It seems that the rise of social networking has led to two effects on blogging and the interlinking between bloggers. And while recommendations via Twitter, Facebook or any other social network are always great, I figure it’s time I started recommending people once more.

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Boycott Facebook & Related Sites | Bare Feet Blog

Bare Feet Studios

I have gotten very used to a certain (large) lack of privacy in most traditional senses. But the way that Facebook’s Beacon is setting cookies and sending my very specific online behavior (at selected sites) back to it’s databases not in the aggregate but assigned to my personal data, is going too far.

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