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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. 3 Links are still crucial for ranking in Google.

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Digital is facing a Trust Crisis

Dave Fleet

Widespread protests around systemic racism and racial justice led to a long-overdue wave of focus on diversity, equality and inclusion not only relating to the justice system but more broadly in society and the workplace. Social networks themselves are in the crosshairs, with a trust problem fueled by years of challenges.

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

Buffer Social

According to The Verge , “The app will use Instagram’s account system to automatically populate a user’s information.” It gives users a “rep score” to incentivize good behavior and create a system for rewarding active users regardless of their audience size.

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Five Things to Do About Facebook Privacy Other Than Closing Your Account

Socialized

Sure you’re ticked off about Facebook’s abuses of consumer privacy, but does closing your account accomplish anything? Facebook should not make it so hard to maintain personal privacy and should not make clandestine changes to its privacy settings. Read Facebook’s own Privacy page. Inform Your Friends.

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Social Media Data Collection: Why and How You Should Do It

Hootsuite

One of social media’s greatest advantages for marketers is the ability to gather data in real-time. Social media data can help you gauge the initial success of a campaign within just a couple of hours of your launch. Social media data mining also gives you key insights into your audience. Profile visits.

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Facebook’s New Comment System: All You Wanted to Know

The Marketing Blog

The latest comes in the form of Facebook’s newly launched comments plug-in, a powerful system that is bound to re-define how users comment on Blogs and other social media sites. Let’s look at this all new plug-in and what makes it vastly different from already available commenting systems like Disqus, Intense Debate etc.

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The Interests That Facebook Advertisers Can Use to Target You

Jon Loomer

Then, select Settings & Privacy… Then Settings… Then Ads… Then Ad Settings… Then “Categories used to reach you”… And then, finally, “Interest Categories”… That’s six clicks. Operating System. Social network (not the movie). Examples: Document.