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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. LinkedIn is a crucial platform for businesses.

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Social Networking Friends vs. Real Life Friends | Almost Savvy

Almost Savvy

How secure should I feel when using Facebook’s privacy settings to determine which groups of friends can or cannot see particular photos? Social Networking Lines Get Blurred With the unprecedented growth of Facebook, it has become the largest social networking platform by far.

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Dark Social in 2023: Here’s Why (and How) You Should Track It

Hootsuite

Welcome to dark social. Don’t worry, dark social isn’t the same as the notorious “dark web” trying to lure you into evil. Dark social is the oldest social network in action: private, untraceable human-to-human communication. Dark social provides valuable information Dark social is all about connection.

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Just Because We're Social Networking “Friends” Doesn't Mean I'll.

Almost Savvy

If this happened at a live networking event, the conversation would go something like this: “Hi. Related articles which may interest you: How Facebook Hurt My Feelings Social Networking Friends vs. Real Life Friends Happy Holidays! Uh…ewww. My name is Irene. No one enjoys being taken advantage of.

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Facebook Reader a welcome feature

Sherrilynne Starkie

I like that my online communities help surface the content that is most relevant to me and it seems to keep me up to date with news and events. 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. Image via CrunchBase.

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2012 in Recap: The Year of Visual Social Media

Mindjumpers

As Timeline allows you to post back in time, you could now enhance past events such as your founding date, events you’ve held or a launch of a product to tell your story. Brands quickly picked up on the importance of visual communication and started building Instagram communities. A picture is worth a thousand words….

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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Tetherless World Constellation Launch Event - June 11, 2008

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Rensselaer and the Tetherless World Research Constellation are partnering with one of the most widely read technology blogs in the world, ReadWriteWeb , to help engage the entire Web community in this interactive event. Schedule of Events. The most popular questions will drive the discussion at the June 11 debate. 2:45 p.m. –

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