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Top Five: Social networks invest in quality news

Sherrilynne Starkie

This week’s must-know social media news for marketing and communications professionals includes headlines about Facebook’s attempt to clean up, support for journalism from Twitter and Google, the continuing importance of links in SEO and some new, clever features from LinkedIn. 5 Google’s new publishing platform for local news.

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Zuck’s facts about Facebook

Sherrilynne Starkie

Last week, the Wall Street Journal , arguably one of the highest profile news organizations in the world, published an article by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and not before time! “Take on all the blame and promise to make things right. Be contrite. Be responsible. Make changes. Then start anew.”. Where’s the Mea Culpa?

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How “The Facebook Files” Could Impact Social Media Marketing

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Rather it appears to be the first chip to fall from the bombshell “ Facebook Files ” series released two weeks prior by the Wall Street Journal. That, along with data and privacy issues, was among our concerns all along. This likely won’t be the last reaction we see to the extensive reporting by the WSJ.

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Facebook Reader a welcome feature

Sherrilynne Starkie

However, the social network has been working on Reader for more than year, according a report in the Wall Street Journal and is said to resemble Flipboard. This story was originally published on the Thornley Fallis blog. Related posts: Facebook graph search and your privacy. Facebook would not confirm the reports at the time.

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The Unfriendliness of Kid-Friendly Social Networks

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They need to be taught the importance of privacy and personal space, the value of real relationships, and to be aware of their own self worth. Facebook, the world’s leading social network, trampled the privacy rights of well informed technically literate adults. The idea is not to teach them to use social networks.

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Where Everybody Knows Your Name. And Face

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With all of the scrutiny from privacy advocates, Facebook continues to make significant and positive strides in assuring the population that our ability to tag (and untag) photos of ourselves that are posted by others in their online social network is easily done. journalism professor. privacy advocates. privacy settings.

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What is Good B2B Content? Content Leaders on 9 Must-Haves for Standing Out From the B2B Crowd

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She lauds this content as an example of a B2B brand bringing together the best of journalism and creativity to bring something new into the world.  This is why, for me, good B2B content is linked to a distribution strategy that goes beyond just pressing "publish." I think this is a positive trend.  

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