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Five Upcoming Social Networks To Look Out For In 2021

Ignite Social Media

This article was previously published on Forbes on February 19, 2021. Social media marketers constantly try to balance the proven practices on established social networks with strategic bets on the up and comers. Still, these five upcoming social media networks look like platforms worth watching.

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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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The Unfriendliness of Kid-Friendly Social Networks

Socialized

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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Top five: social networks are cleaning up their acts

Sherrilynne Starkie

Top five: social networks are cleaning up their acts. In this week's top 5 must-know social media news, we see major social networks rolling out initiatives to protect privacy and increase transparency. It provides information from publishers' Wikipedia entries, related articles, engagement metrics and more.

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Embarrassing updates in social media

Sherrilynne Starkie

Now, there’s a new website that collates people’s embarrassing updates, categorizes them and publishes them for all world to see (again). No information is posted that hasn’t been published by the social media users themselves. Google’s new privacy policy. It happens all the time. Path: the sequel.

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Facebook Page publishing authorization: changes you need to know

Sprout Social

Kicking off 2018 with a reach-rocking algorithm shift , the social giant is now throwing some business owners for a loop with some recent changes to their Pages platform. That said, the new Facebook Page publishing authorization is something that brands of all shapes and sizes should be aware of. Quite the opposite, actually.

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How Do I Share A Facebook Post To Twitter?

SocMed Sean

To continue in this series of social media cross-promotion, I thought I’d go ahead and add a follow-up post that answers the question of “how do a share a Facebook post on Twitter?” ” The steps are fairly similar, but there are some additional privacy concerns that you need to be aware of when it comes to Facebook.

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