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Top Five: Google is shuttering G+

Sherrilynne Starkie

Top stories this week include Facebook’s crackdown, Google’s continuing investment in quality news, another new Instagram feature, the final throes of Google’s G+ and how all emoji are being treated equal on Twitter. Google supports quality news publishers in digital transformation. Google is shuttering G+.

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Google Keep will get you organized

Sherrilynne Starkie

Google Keep is a nifty little free app that can help lift a content marketing effort to the next level. Google Keep Screenshot (Photo credit: Schockwellenreiter). It’s an easy-to-use note taking tool that syncs with Google Drive, so updates and additions are kept current, in the cloud and ready to access.

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Rules for good media relations

Sherrilynne Starkie

This means they are walking away from opportunities to gain exposure to massive audiences, getting the SEO benefits of backlinks from high authority websites and often, winning a Google Page One ranking for their priority keywords. See Invest in PR tools below.). Invest in PR tools. Regularly clean your media contact database.

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Top five: Messaging gets a lot more engaging

Sherrilynne Starkie

This weeks’ must-know news from Google, Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram. News from Google, SnapChat, Facebook and Instagram. New tools, features and functions in major social media platforms. Voice search is about to get a lot more important to local business as lead generation comes to Google Assistant and Google Home.

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Top Five: Happy 15th Birthday to GMail

Sherrilynne Starkie

Top news this week from the world of social media includes the death of Google+, Facebook’s war on hate, LinkedIn’s lookalike audiences, GMail’s 15th birthday and a primer on using TikTok. Google+ died yesterday. It’s Gmail’s 15 th birthday, so Google is launching two new features.

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Top Five: The night that YouTube went dark

Sherrilynne Starkie

This week’s must-know social media news includes the YouTube outage, a religious stance on women and social media, Coke’s misstep in New Zealand, Snapchat’s new original programming and Google’s shopping insights. When asked for more details about the incident, Google declined to comment. — SS. — SS.

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Top Five: Changes to social networks come fast and furious

Sherrilynne Starkie

New features and functions from Facebook, SnapChat, YouTube, Google and Instagram. He explained how Facebook is taking a broader view of its responsibility to ensure its tools are used for good. The company is now making YouTube TV programming part of Google Preferred, its premium video advertising program. Follow List.