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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. 3 Links are still crucial for ranking in Google.

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Social Networks and Privacy

Janet Fouts

I’m a bit more pragmatic than some of my co-panelists on what privacy we can actually have in this day and age. This is especially true when you are on multiple networks. Think of your online conversations as an aggregate whole and not just one network at a time. Change the date across all your 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. Related posts: Facebook graph search and your privacy. Facebook Featured Headline Social Media Facebook Reader Google Reader News aggregator' Related articles.

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Some Social Tools You Should Know About

Direct Marketing Observations

NutshellMail users social network updates so they don’t have to login and check. MemoLane is a “virtual scrapbook” generated by a user’s social media history. It also allows users to search their social history across multiple networks.

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Social You Should Know—April Social Media Updates

Ignite Social Media

A lot happened this month in social media with most of the news centered around the Facebook privacy scandal. What we learned from that experience is that many people in Congress do not understand how social networks work and that Facebook has a lot of action items to follow up on. Facebook Faced Congress.

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Sysomos Audience Moves Towards Measuring Social Media ROI

Dave Fleet

It does so by examining peoples’ previous web activity, including competitors’ websites, blogs, social networks and so on. Privacy Concerns? The only question that worried me during the demo I received revolved around online privacy. I do think they need to answer the privacy questions, though.

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Social Media Isn’t Conversation, It’s Publication

Socialized

Twitter, for example, still has a thing called “ the public timeline &# where all tweets are reproduced and can be found by search engines and services that aggregate tweets. If you haven’t set your Facebook privacy settings properly, your status updates will be visible to everyone. (It’s