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Facebook scandal: The dawn of a new era in social media marketing?

Sherrilynne Starkie

Issues about trust, transparency and ethics in social media are being discussed around many dinner tables this week. Facebook’s so-called data breach is dominating news cycles, and the story is making people more aware of how the social network uses their data. This is not the end of social media marketing.

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Top Five Social Media Must Knows: The new Google News

Sherrilynne Starkie

Top Five Social Media Must Knows: The new Google News. This week's top 5 social media must-knows include Hootsuite and Pinterest, Google News and AI, New Buttons for Instagram, Facebook user loyalty and new features from WhatsApp. Facebook privacy: Survey suggests continuing US loyalty. followers .

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Embarrassing updates in social media

Sherrilynne Starkie

Ever update your Facebook with a silly remark and then regret it? ” The website sends search bots to crawl Facebook and Foursquare to find key words such as “hungover” and “cannabis” and divides the findings into four categories: “Who wants to get fired?”, Google’s new privacy policy.

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Top Five: Tidal Wave of New Social Media Features

Sherrilynne Starkie

Top Five: Tidal Wave of New Social Media Features. This week's must-know news from the world of social media includes new features and functions from Instagram, Facebook Messenger, LinkedIn and Twitter. New reporting tools for Facebook Messenger. Sherrilynne Starkie. followers . Follow List. Embed List.

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Managing Facebook ads from your phone

Sherrilynne Starkie

This is one of our Facebook Ads (Photo credit: The Cyphers Agency). Now advertisers have a new way to manage Facebook ads on the go. Using the Facebook (iOS, Android and mobile site) apps, marketers can now: Pause or resume campaigns. Marketers can access Ads Manager on mobile from the Ads Manager bookmark in the Facebook app.

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Facebook mention: for celebrities only

Sherrilynne Starkie

I usually only follow celebrities on Facebook if I have actually met them in person, such as Jim Carrey, who I met about 30 years ago when he did a surprise gig at Yuk Yuks in Ottawa. I have this self-imposed rule because my own personal goal in social media is to make real connections with real people. Related articles.

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Taking part in the Facebook 10-year challenge?

Sherrilynne Starkie

Did you take part in the latest Facebook name the 10-year challenge? The idea is for people to post their very first ever Facebook profile pic next to the most recent one. Personally I saw this dozens, maybe hundreds, of times in my Facebook feed over the last week or so, and yes, I certainly took part in it myself.

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