Sherrilynne Starkie

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Top Five: Research shows that Facebook is successfully tackling fake news

Sherrilynne Starkie

Facebook launches Messenger 4. Facebook is rolling out a new, simplified version of Messenger: Messenger 4. It should be included as part of all Facebook campaigns. Great example of digital media integration. Evidence that YouTube is feeling the pinch from Facebook’s competition in the video ad space.

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Facebook and a ‘harmless’ prank

Sherrilynne Starkie

The suspected suicide of the nurse who was pranked by two Australian DJs quickly resulted in a deluge of angry comments to their radio station’s Facebook page. Thousands of Facebookers posted critical remarks of the DJs and the station (2dayfm), and it would seem that the station’s crisis communications tact is simply to unpublish the page.

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Facebook Pages are getting mobile friendly

Sherrilynne Starkie

Facebook has just announced that business pages are getting a whole lot more mobile friendly thanks to new features and functions designed with hand-held devices in mind. There are 45 million businesses using Facebook pages to reach more than 1.5 Related Posts: Measuring the impact of Facebook video content. billion people.

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A digital media framework for smart marketing communications

Sherrilynne Starkie

Eighty-three per cent of Canadians are on Facebook and almost 77 per cent use it daily. Digital Media and Marketing Framework Example. Here’s an example to demonstrates a marketing communications challenge…getting the new apartment block of a not-for-profit organization rented out. How Canadians use Social Media.

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What is Earned Media?

Sherrilynne Starkie

In this post, I’ll define “earned media” and show a few examples of how smart marketers use it to fuel successful campaigns. You try sharing it on social media and even run a few Facebook ads, but the results are short term and costly. Examples of Earned Media Success. What is Earned Media? Let’s imagine you have a company blog.

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A digital media framework for smart marketing communications

Sherrilynne Starkie

Eighty-three per cent of Canadians are on Facebook and almost 77 per cent use it daily. Digital Media and Marketing Framework Example. Here’s an example to demonstrates a marketing communications challenge…getting the new apartment block of a not-for-profit organization rented out. How Canadians use Social Media.

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Top Five: Social Networks Take Action on Politics

Sherrilynne Starkie

This week's top five social media must-know news features Facebook & Twitter's new rules for political content, Google's action on scammers, new features from Snapchat & LinkedIn. Facebook enforces new rules for political & issues ads. Facebook is now enforcing its new policies for political and issue-related ads.