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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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I've Used Bluesky for 6 Months – Here's What You Should Know

Buffer Social

Among them is Bluesky , which is a decentralized, invite-only social network built on an open-source protocol  (I’ll explain what this means even though I barely understand it myself). Bluesky is a decentralized social network created by Jack Dorsey, the former Twitter CEO who started it while still in the role.

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Social Data Analysis: The Pros and Cons of Social Data

Oktopost

You can collect data manually and use tools such as Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets to track metrics from the social networks you will analyze. Alternatively, you can use a social media management tool that automates data collection and creates dedicated reports with critical social platforms and data points.

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Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup & Red Pandas

Kikolani

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, making money online, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com. The Resources Mashup. 17 ways to grow your blog from top bloggers – best blogging tips from the finalists of the Top 10 Social Media Blogs contest.

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Should We Expect Health Care Professionals To Post And Tweet?

SocMed Sean

Gen-Y docs have generally grown up with a digital device in their hand, so they often feel that patient communications should naturally extend into the digital space. Boomers are often the polar opposite worrying about the time required, technical concerns, and potential privacy issues that may arise. Is it fear of privacy violations?

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4 Emerging Social Media Trends to Watch in 2020

Social Media Strategies Summit

As social media continues to evolve and users continue to experiment with different apps and websites, marketers will need to have a clear understanding of where their social media resources are going and what platforms are generating the greatest return on investment. 2 Growth of private communities and tight-knit tribes.

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Unraveling Meta Threads: What we learned from our first 30 days on the network

Sprout Social

Nothing captured first-day-of-school energy quite like the release of Threads, a new text-based social media platform from Meta. The launch of a new social network is typically met with equal doses of curiosity and concern. Brands and the social media managers that run them took to the platform with enthusiasm.

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