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Who will blink first in Canadian community newspaper staredown?

Sherrilynne Starkie

But the backroom deal between competing newspaper publishing companies Postmedia and TorStar must surely up the ante. This is a bad deal, not only for the almost 300 news media professionals who are out of a job, but because reporting local news is important to our communities. Photo by Mike Ackerman on Unsplash.

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Annual Social Media Budget Planning For Companies And Bloggers

SocMed Sean

NOTE: I originally wrote and published this article back in November of 2011 and it has generated a lot of interest over the years. Whether you work for a Fortune 100 company or a blogger who relies on revenue from your content to supplement your income, it’s important to think about what goes into your social media headcount.

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A digital media framework for smart marketing communications

Sherrilynne Starkie

Owned Media is self-published content. Today Owned Media includes digital content, and the central hub is usually the company website. No matter the communications challenge–marketing, advocacy, community relations, employee engagement–the best solutions have pieces from all four quarters of the digital media landscape.

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Seven Ways to Increase Your Brand Influence

Webbiquity SMM

According to recent statistics, 57% of companies in the U.S. This landscape is in constant flux, which presents companies with a huge challenge in increasing their influencing power. Use their work desktop PC to search for more information about a product on Google. Use their smartwatch to make a payment via Google Pay.

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Here’s what you need to know about the Google+ shut down

Sprout Social

In October 2018, Google announced that it will be shutting down the consumer version of Google+ owing to insufficient usage. The company announced that it was too challenging to keep maintaining a product that could not meet consumers’ expectations. Since 2013, Google+ had been experiencing low activity.

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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. 2 LinkedIn’s new ways to track companies.

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Tips on Measuring Community [April #measurePR Recap]

Waxing UnLyrical

At the heart of social PR lies community. So that’s what we focused on for the April #measurePR Twitter chat; how to measure community, how to tell when community-building initiatives are working (and when they’re not), and how community-focused metrics might change over time. Experts in measuring community.