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“The Algorithm,” Explained

Likeable

Algorithms are what make your social feed possible. Every social network uses an algorithm to determine what content shows up in a user’s feed, as well as what ads to serve. From a content perspective, the algorithm used to be simple: It found what was most recently posted, and ordered your feed in reverse chronological order.

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Nuggets from Social Media workshops as of late. : Community Group Therapy

Buzz Marketing for Technology

A platform should have an extensibility model, a content management model, a user profiling/membership model, a rating/reputation system (for content and authors), and registration system, etc, etc, etc…you get the idea. 9) Most companies have “hearing systems&# not “listening systems.&#

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The 23 Blogger Breeds—Which Are You?

ProBlogger

Some of them will rip content word-for-word from other blogs’ RSS feeds (some person is doing this to my blog). They aren’t into making money by working the system and using SEO on an untapped niche of little interest. This one has nothing to do with copyblogger.com , a fantastic copywriting blog. The Passion Purist.

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The Ultimate List of Social Media Definitions You Need to Know

Hootsuite

An application programming interface (API) is a communication system that allows two applications or platforms to “talk” to each other. A feed is an updated list of all the new content posted by the accounts a user follows on social media. Rather than being purely chronological, most social media feeds are controlled by an algorithm.

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