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A Social Network For Genetics Research: Can It Help Isolate Parkinson’s Genes?

The Realtime Report

Can social networks help with medical research? The world’s first genetics-based social network – as 23andMe labels itself – is looking to show they can. It started in 2009, when 23andMe decided to do genetic research and invited anyone diagnosed with Parkinson’s to donate their DNA sample.

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31 free social media templates that will elevate your workflows

Sprout Social

Social media audit template A social media audit is a step-by-step review of your business’ social presence. It’s a straightforward process but when you factor in all of your brand handles across every social network, it can become quite the undertaking. Download the template 4. Get the template 17.

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6 steps to create an org-wide social listening strategy

Sprout Social

You can’t listen and aggregate this much data “by hand,” so it’s important to choose a listening tool that reaches the deepest corners of social, brings forth actionable data, measures sentiment, and integrates effortlessly into your business strategy. Step 6: Stay nimble. Listening is part art, part science.

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The Meme-ification of Instagram

Buffer Social

Social networks change and evolve, rapidly. In particular, we’re noticing an embrace of memes — that historically unpolished, yet highly relatable category of social media content. Source memes from meme aggregators and Reddit. We’re seeing this happen on Instagram today: less polish, more authenticity.

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From Shared Databases to Communities of Practice: A Taxonomy of Collaboratories

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Dataset and Sampling Methods. Crane (1972) first described the loosely-affiliated but highly interactive networks of scientists as "invisible colleges." First, scientific knowledge is difficult to aggregate. Dataset and Sampling Methods. School of Information. University of Michigan. Introduction. Conclusions.

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Content farms will eat themselves

The Way of the Web

This is likely, because the search content is often on sites which have no focus on owning an area with quality content – which is the sort of thing which is more likely to be shared on social networks (It should have also been the sort of content more likely to be highlighted by Google – maybe in 2011?).

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The 10 Top Social Media Tools Brands are Using to Succeed in 2019

Buffer Social

While it’s not an RSS aggregator like Feedly, you can follow topics on Flipboard and it curates the world’s news stories to help you stay informed. Buffer Reply makes social media engagement easy for marketing and support teams who need to respond to social conversations. Honorable mentions (more social media tools).