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Social media and journalism: how to effectively reach the public

Sprout Social

Social media and journalism are one and the same these days. 9 best practices of social media and journalism. So much of social media and journalism boils down to looking the part. Relevant hashtags related to what you’re covering. Social media and journalism are about more than just dropping links to articles.

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How to Grow Your Audience With Hashtags for Instagram

Sprout Social

The answer is hashtags. The beauty of hashtags for Instagram is they make your content discoverable and increase your chances of engagement. Aside from getting mentioned by influencers , using hashtags is one of the easiest ways to grow your audience within Instagram. Why You Need to Use Hashtags. Types of Hashtags.

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How Hashtags Are Becoming More Universal

Small Business Mavericks

Hashtags are becoming more and more universal every day. As a way to organize social information on Twitter, hashtags became very popular on that social media platform and still are. What was not expected was other social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Google+ picking up on hashtags. How do you use hashtags?

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Twitter for Business: Is It Time?

Webbiquity SMM

Fed up with the cancel culture attacks on anyone who dares express a sensible viewpoint, and the general adolescent nonsense so prevalent on the platform (when a hashtag like #thingspeoplestickuptheirbutts is trending, Twitter does not present itself as a forum for serious business discussion). Could it happen?

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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 Media News Ticker: Instagram Launches Bolt, Foursquare Debuts New Logo, Facebook Drops Gifts

The Realtime Report

Twitter testing easier-to-use hashtags – Twitter is testing a feature that will better organize hashtags; it adds an expanded label to some hashtag searches, giving the hashtags “ a sense of legitimacy and order as related to a certain event or subject” (The Wall Street Journal).

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Social media and Montreal’s student protests

Sherrilynne Starkie

“Our objective is to bring the SPVM closer to the community and our use of social media helps us do this,” said Melissa who is a graduate of the University of Laval with a degree in journalism and has been a communications officer with the SPVM since 2004. I used the students’ own hashtag, #ggi, and asked them to retweet our messages.