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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. Glad to see these priorities.

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Three Creative Ways to Use Social Media to Promote your Event

Webbiquity SMM

Social networks have become the primary means of keeping friends, family members, and business contacts up to date on what’s happening in our lives. 77% of all Americans have at least one social media profile. Build Hype for your Event. Guest post by Rosemary McKee.

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Social Networking Friends vs. Real Life Friends | Almost Savvy

Almost Savvy

How can I organize the people I’m connected to so I see updates and news from the people I care about the most? Social Networking Lines Get Blurred With the unprecedented growth of Facebook, it has become the largest social networking platform by far. Is this because social networking is new?

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Don’t Sell Your Brand’s Soul to the Facebook News Feed Algorithm and Vanity Metrics

Pam Moore

Be careful who you listen to as many of the same people who are wanting to implant your brain with emotions of fear, are the same people who have a top business objective to sell you tickets to events, courses and magic carpet rides to your one stop solution to all of your Facebook problems. Facebook 2018 is all About Engagement.

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Social Media News Ticker: Facebook Tests ‘Buy’ Button, Twitter Acquires CardSpring

The Realtime Report

Check out all the latest social media news from the last two weeks, including changes and new features for Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Tumblr, YouTube and Vine: Facebook. Facebook tests new ‘buy’ button for online purchases in U.S.

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The Facebook News Feed is Changing to Favor Person to Person Engagement

Jon Loomer

A major change is being made to the news feed that will favor people and negatively impact the visibility of page content. I guess that means changes are coming… “The first changes you’ll see will be in News Feed, where you can expect to see more from your friends, family and groups.” ” Sounds great!

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[Answered] Yes, Facebook Is Removing The Trending News Box

SocMed Sean

“What are future news experiences?”, It’s likely that the removal of this feature is intended to take the heat off their staff, even if they simply replace it with another box called “New News” or “What’s Hot” or whatever kitschy title they come up. ”, you might ask.

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