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Top Five: Social networks invest in quality news

Sherrilynne Starkie

These include new job alerts, an alumni tool, community hashtags and company insights. Stone Temple published a study that shows a very significant correlation between links and ranking position in Google search. The readership dashboard, available to publishers and business account owners, reveals reader insights.

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B2B Marketing: Trust + Community = ROI

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Trust is not a new thing when it comes to marketing and communications as evidenced by one of the most awaited studies in the communications world is always the annual Edelman Public Relations Trust Barometer. If you can combine the element of Trust across a wide range of fans, followers and advocates then you have a community.

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The Map of Online Communities

Firebelly

In 2007, the web-comic xkcd published their version of an " online communities map ," which use statistics (and admittedly some guesswork) to map out social networks and communication sites in the form of countries on a world map. As cool as that was, it was taken a step further in the 2010 version.

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The Psychology of Change: How We React When Our Favorite Social Networks Shift

Buffer Social

Instagram changed its logo on Wednesday, and as with almost any significant change to a popular social network, the internet was split. But why do social networks feel the need to change their core functionality and design? Why social networks change (and why we keep coming back). Some loved it.

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Does your brand take bloggers seriously?

Sherrilynne Starkie

Technorati is not the voice of blogging authority that it once was, but each year the advertising network publishes a report that is required reading for internet marketers. The study shows that blogs are the third among online sites most likely to influence a consumer purchasing decision, coming after retail and brand websites.

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Case Study: Blogger Outreach for Oxfam America’s International Women’s Day 2012 Campaign

Waxing UnLyrical

Since we didn’t need to focus on promoting the campaign in social networks per se, but were focused on blogger outreach, we did a ton of research. There was a strong correlation between the publishing of the blog posts and search traffic via keywords such as “international women’s day ecards,” “women’s day ecard,” and so on.

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6 Brands Achieving Amazing Results on Facebook

Social Media Strategies Summit

It’s still the most-used social network in the US, with 73% of American consumers visiting the site regularly… Source: Statista It’s also the platform 65% of marketers plan to use most in 2023. But they were interested to discover if they could use the social network to increase purchases via physical retail stores.

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