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Time to Declare Independence From Social Media?

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The reason that Facebook has become such a powerful and important social media outlet is its wide reach and ability to drive lots of traffic and conversation. I use my Facebook feed to read news—with sites like Gawker , Vox , and Mental Floss near the top of the list. Time for a New Direction?

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Social Media Roundup: The NYPD’s Social Media Crossfire

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A big-city police department’s kerfuffle reminds us that, depending on the topic and the audience, social media campaigns can sometimes do more harm than good. The New York Police Department’s social media campaign was meant to draw positive attention, but it didn’t turn out that way.

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Mizz Information: New York Times and Other Excitement

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New York Times and Other Excitement. Thanks to the fact that my friend Tonia Ries is a rockstar, the story got picked up by the New York Times , so I will now be able to go down in history--much to my mothers chagrin--as the mom who helped her 13 year old lie to get on Facebook. Mizz Information. Subscribe via email.

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Social Media Roundup: From Big Ideas To Practice

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Apply these ideas from The Atlantic’s New York Ideas Conference to your social media strategy. Also: Gather some knowledge from Forbes’ Top 50 Social Media Influencers list. What do you get when you place some of the world’s most influential social media and consumer thinkers in one room?

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Build a Marketing Dream Team—Welcome AI

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For communicators who would rather write sentences than algorithms, finding the phrases that will viralize your posts seems like a New York Times word game gone wrong. AI, your new marketing assistant, is happy to help. Social media. Oh, those pesky keywords. You don’t have to wake up at four a.m.

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Social Media Roundup: The Battle of the Tweets

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Learn from some automated evaluations in today’s Social Media Roundup: Predicting Success on Twitter. To do this, they devised a means of judging the versions that succeeds at predicting more often than the average human and many social media professionals do. If so, now’s your chance to prove it.

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Social Media Roundup: How Early is Too Early to Go Social?

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First-graders take their first social media steps in the classroom. A new debate over the nation’s classrooms is brewing. This time over how and when to teach the ins and outs of social networks. "I don't approve of social media with kids this young." Reading, Writing and … Twitter 101? "I