Sherrilynne Starkie

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Top five: holiday retail trends to the fore

Sherrilynne Starkie

Google My Business, Snapchat, blended retail, Facebook and Google Assistant all feature. Google My Business rolls out new feature. Google My Business added the ability to announce the date a new business is opening directly in Google Maps and changed how it manages businesses that are within specific service areas.

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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.

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Facebook’s new update scheduler

Sherrilynne Starkie

For the first time, Facebook page administrators can schedule updates now to be published in the future. But the scheduler will definitely help Facebook page admins who are trying to hit peak traffic times with updates. Related posts: Deleting your Facebook status. Why do Facebook users add friends? 1 Facebook brand.

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Using social media to track down deadbeats

Sherrilynne Starkie

Once a claim has been filed, users use social media tools like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Google +1 to share the claim with their social network. Jonathan Broder, a small business owner, started The Debtor List because he was frustrated with clients that didn’t pay their bills.

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Top five: social networks are cleaning up their acts

Sherrilynne Starkie

Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Pinterest are all featured. Facebook plans to restrict data access. Pinterest to provide more services, support to small businesses. Small and independent retailers take note. Pinterest has hired Facebook's Matt Hogle as global head of small business.

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Facebook’s little secretâ€Ĥ

Sherrilynne Starkie

It’s based on how I helped one company start its journey into social media by creating a Facebook secret group. Still we can all learn from the experiment… Facebook’s secret groups. The launch last autumn extended the concept for use among other small groups, for example sports teams or book clubs.

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Social media news: Top 5 feat. LinkedIn’s Top Voices

Sherrilynne Starkie

The top five must-know social media news stories of the week feature a Google’s new app for small businesses, LinkedIn’s Top Voices list, Facebook welcoming in French regulators, Pinterest’s UX improvements and Instagram’s new time tracking feature. New Google My Business app now available.

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