Latest and Breaking Social Media News and Top Stories - July 7
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Looking for a job should be simple; you spend hours trawling career websites, tweaking your CV, writing cover letters, and brushing up on your interview skills. But, in an age where Facebook has become such an...
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More than 259 million people are using LinkedIn, but fewer are tapping into the network’s full potential. Whereas Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest are more consumer-based marketing platforms, LinkedIn is essential to lead generation...
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Moscow-based ad agency Instinct helped Ikea promote a limited designer collection by creating an Instagram-powered website. The agency created the ikea_ps_2014 account on Instagram, which serves as the site’s main page with produc...
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Some Facebook Page admins are seeing a new ranking display on their Pages, which shows how they rank compared to their competitors. For example, if your’e the fifth most popular business of your type in your town, it will show …
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While all place-based Facebook page admins can see how well their fans and customers have rated them, some page owners are now seeing how they stack up among the competition. Inside Facebook reader Giannis Andrikopoulos of Greece...
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Click here to receive the Morning Social Media Newsfeed via email. Facebook Removes Mom’s Photo of Daughter’s Bare Bottom (Today) A mom who tried to recreate a famous Coppertone ad with a picture of her 2-year-old daugh...
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Do you want to save time by scheduling your Facebook posts? Do you know how to edit a post once it’s scheduled? Scheduling your posts works well when you can’t be online 24 hours a day, but what happens when you need to make ...
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Are you struggling with the challenges of managing large-scale social media? Do you run social media for a large company? Maintaining a uniform social media presence in a complex organization is a tall order. In this article I’ll s...
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By Sharon Begley NEW YORK (Reuters) - One team of researchers assessing the risks of electronic cigarettes is counting the puffs taken by volunteer "vapers." Another will comb Facebook for posts on how people are tinkering with...
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How can you leverage mobile to increase profitability for your company? Find out at MobileBeat, VentureBeat's 7th annual event on the future of mobile, on July 8-9 in San Francisco. There are only a few tickets left! There has been quite...
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A YouView study of the UK public has found that social media, including Facebook and Twitter, influence TV habits, but people avoid using them if they are not up to date, so as not to ruin their experience of favourite shows: 27% would k...
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Danny Murphy is a legend on the football pitch, but it was his commentary during the BBC's coverage of the World Cup match between Holland and Costa Rica that sent social media into a frenzy on Saturday. The Match of the Day pundit appea...
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Year after year since the big app stores launched, native apps have asserted their hegemony over the mobile web. One big drawback of native apps was the inability then the difficulty to seamlessly access any content from one app to the o...
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When the time comes to round up each week’s major social media news, it never fails to surprise us how rapidly the landscape of the social web can... Read More The post This Week in Social: Google Acquires Songza and Reading Rainbow Make...
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Google is planning to shut down once the popular and precursor to Google+, the Orkut social network on September 30th of 2014. It has been 10 years since the inception of the Orkut social network by Google with its first attempt into th...
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The management team running Twitter’s revenue side, led by Adam Bain, has thrived even as top executives running other parts of the company have resigned or been pushed out.
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Online exchanges between Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah supporters over alleged fraud threaten to spill over into violence The Afghan government has rejected a proposal to ban Facebook during an ongoing deadlock over the presidential...
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According to new social media guidelines set out by the Food and Drug Administration in the U.S., any promotion of a drug on Twitter must be accompanied by information about its side effects. The post The FDA wants drug companies to twee...
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Often defying parents’ rules, many teenagers spend the wee hours using social media with friends.
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On social media, people proudly trumpet their ethical outrage toward anyone or anything that has rubbed them the wrong way.
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The Afghan government on Sunday rejected a proposal to ban Facebook during an ongoing deadlock over the presidential election, despite fears that social media postings have fanned ethnic hatred. The dispute between candidates Ashraf Ghan...
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In Europe there is a growing fear of becoming a 'digital colony' ruled by Silicon Valley, whose giant firms wield huge power over privacy and like to avoid tax. Now regulators are striking back Meet the German publisher who's taking on G...
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The revelation that Facebook has manipulated news feeds ought to surprise nobody There are two interesting lessons to be drawn from the row about Facebook's "emotional contagion" study. The first is what it tells us about ...
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The science journal that published the findings of Facebook's secret study on 700,000 unsuspecting users says the methodology was dubious
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Facebook research can save lives and promote democracy
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The 'right to be forgotten' that has some people seeking to have past references expunged is puzzling It has been a distressing and troubling period for those of us who struggle to maintain a meaningful relationship with social media and...
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Walmart has sought to revolutionize the in-store experience by adding navigation, voice commands, shopping lists, price comparisons, and other useful tools to its mobile applications. At next week’s MobileBeat — July 8-9 in San Fra...
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The 2014 World Cup is being hailed as the most social and mobile sporting event of all time. Google saw a 233 percent growth in soccer-related searches compared to last year and Twitter says the World Cup will be the most tweeted event e...
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DAZEINFO - July 4 - According to a ‘2014 Social media marketing industry report’ by Social media examiner, ~92% of marketers considered social media as vital tool for their businesses, up from 86% in 2013. Facebook was voted as ‘Most...
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INSIDE FACEBOK - Jule 3 - Terms of the deal were not disclosed. LiveRail is a 7 years old ad tech company that has worked with ABC, Major League Baseball, A&E Networks and Gannett to improve the quality of ads...
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A couple years ago, marketers loved to explain that “content is king,” but these days it seems as though “a picture really is worth a thousand words.” You... Read More The post Are We Witnessing the Death of Text ...
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Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. What’s New This Week? Facebook Rolls Out Enhancements...
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'Much time, effort and misery could be spared if we stopped thinking of the internet as something Other, something that exists outside ourselves' I don't know whether to be pleased or sorry that I came off Facebook three years ago. ...
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A turn from the microblogging service Sina Weibo to the Facebook-like WeChat has reoriented the nation’s social media landscape from public to semiprivate communication.
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