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Smarter Ways to Measure Authoritative Content

Waxing UnLyrical

That no matter how good it is, how it is disseminated and received in social channels has a lot to do with whether or not your story will get play. Dynamic comment systems became the norm (such as Livefyre , which is what we have here on WUL), as opposed to vanilla commenting systems. What does this mean for your content?

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“The Algorithm,” Explained

Likeable

cue thunder clap, spooky organ music] It’s a term that entered buzzword territory not long ago, as every social network and some of the most popular apps employ them in one way or another, but it is a simple enough concept that gets blamed for way more than it deserves to be. Algorithms are what make your social feed possible.

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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. I think the same is true for the bevy of social tools. I describe this as hearing systems.

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The Ultimate List of Social Media Definitions You Need to Know

Hootsuite

In the context of social media, an algorithm is how a social platform determines which content to display at any given time to a particular user. Analytics is an umbrella term used to describe both social analysis tools and the information those tools provide. How the Instagram Algorithm Works. How the Twitter Algorithm Works.

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