Sherrilynne Starkie

JANUARY 22, 2019

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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Social Networking News Aggregator Journal 150

Sherrilynne Starkie

APRIL 6, 2018

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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Social Networking Wikipedia API Small Business 80

Sherrilynne Starkie

JUNE 29, 2012

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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Social Media Foursquare Privacy Policies 348

Sherrilynne Starkie

MAY 9, 2018

Social media management platform Hootsuite has announced a global partnership with Pinterest to natively integrate the social networking platform into the Hootsuite platform. The move means that Hootsuite customers will be able to schedule and publish visual content directly to their Pinterest boards. May 09, 2018.

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News Google Social Media HootSuite 170

Sherrilynne Starkie

AUGUST 17, 2014

The social network says that more than billion interactions take place each week between public figures and their fans on Facebook. This article was originally published on Thornleyfallis.com. Facebook graph search and your privacy. 4 Social Media Tips We Learned from George Takei. PLEASE LIKE MY FACEBOOK PAGE.

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Facebook Privacy Features Social Media 281

Sherrilynne Starkie

MARCH 14, 2015

Social network Twitter has introduced a new feature: Private Conversations and it just might be a game changer. The privacy shift comes as Twitter seeks to bolster user growth and compete with instant messaging platforms such as WeChat, WhatsApp and SnapChat. A version of this article was first published at Thornleyfallis.com .

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Conversation Twitter Instant Messaging Compete 150

Sherrilynne Starkie

JUNE 29, 2013

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. Have you found a replacement service yet?

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