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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. LinkedIn is a crucial platform for businesses.

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The Unfriendliness of Kid-Friendly Social Networks

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Everyone’s talking about the launch of Togetherville , a social network designed to bring parents and their kids together with the goal of learning responsible social networking. In other words, they are not using a social network. The idea is not to teach them to use social networks.

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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. Does Facebook affect your brain.

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Where Everybody Knows Your Name. And Face

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Well, what right do we have in posting our children's lives to an online social network, anyway? Some might argue that Facebook could do more to protect these rights, while some would argue that the privacy settings are fairly straightforward and award a high degree of user control. journalism professor. privacy settings.

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What You Always Need To Remember About The Internet

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Department of Justice has been asking for information from places like Twitter , Facebook and Google (more on that here: Mashable - Social Media and Subpoenas: A Broken System That Puts Journalistic Sources at Risk and here Fast Company - Why Twitter Was the Only Company to Challenge the Secret WikiLeaks Subpoena ). You can't have privacy.

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Do You Have the Right Insurance for Your Social Media Activities?

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Consequently, all associations are publishers and have unique liability exposures. Anyone can now make a video, recording, create a blog or publish a book. Allegations focus on copyright infringement, trademark or trade dress infringement, plagiarism, libel, slander, defamation and invasion of privacy. Media Exposures.

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This Week in Social Media – 4/24/2013

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Online privacy may be an issue for many, but overall, consumers prefer targeted ads over random ads that have nothing to do with their interests. Don''t try this at home: 5 Publishing Tricks That Brands Should Avoid While content marketing gets a lot of play, there''s also a lot of frustration around the industry.