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Crowd-Sourced Information Online: Helpful or Harmful?

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There’s been quite a bit of discussion about the reliability of online information that is compiled by individual users (think Wikipedia ). Others rely on shared information from internet users on a daily basis. Or does it help regulate false information on the infinite Internet? Does SOPA silent free speech?

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Is Your Business Using the Correct Facebook Profile?

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In our work with many different industries, including education marketing with schools and school districts, we’ve come across many different types of Facebook set ups. There are three types Facebook offers: Profiles, Groups, and Pages. What is a Facebook Profile? . What is a Facebook Page? .

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#Hashtags Hit Facebook – #WhatDoYouThink

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In an announcement by the social networking service giant on Wednesday, Facebook informed users of the rollout of hashtags to status updates. That being said, many are skeptical on the use of hashtags on Facebook. ” Hashtags are best known by Twitter users as a way to take part in trending topics or create your own.

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Rules That Every Facebook User Should Know

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Do you know if your Facebook profile is in violation of any rules? While some people might not see any problem with bending a rule or two, Facebook is really stepping up to enforce their guidelines in 2012– and many users could lose their pages or profiles. Facebook users must provide their real names and information.

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Your Online Posts – Including Facebook – Will Soon Be Found by Google

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Remember that funny post your friend shared on Facebook last month, but now you can’t seem to find it? The search engine giant will soon begin indexing posts on Facebook and other sites and showing those comments in Google search results. Will this apply to absolutely every Facebook user? The answer is no.

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App of the Week: Dashlane

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From company email and websites to our Facebook and Twitter pages, we all have plenty of passwords to keep track of. It can store all of your login information, your bank information, any secure notes you may have, and all you have to remember is your master password to get into the app. For the $19.99

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4 Concepts Your Online Marketing Should be Ready for in 2015

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The site offers a simple, easy, ad-free social network for its users to share information and status updates, and stresses that user information will not be shared with third party sites. As Facebook’s organic reach continues to shrink, online marketers are flocking to buy ads in order to get messages to their target audience.

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