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Facebook Launches an Emergency “Check-In” Tool: Safety Check

Melissa Agnes

As Twitter has its emergency alert system , and Google offers a crisis response resource , Facebook has recently launched an emergency check-in tool, called Safety Check. Safety Check provides a “a simple and easy way to say you’re safe and check on others” on Facebook in a natural disaster.

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5 Ways to Beat the Facebook News Feed Update

The Proactive Report

With over a billion users and millions of brand pages there is a glut of content on Facebook. Most people don’t have enough time to see them all,” wrote Facebook engineer Lars Backstrom in a blog post in August 2013. People enjoy Facebook because it allows them to stay connected to people and brands they genuinely like.

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Five years later: Reflecting on 7 big social media trends from 2013

Communications Conversations

Last week, my friend Amanda Oleson sent me a note about a post I had written that featured her that popped up in her “Facebook Memories” from 2012. The hot new social networking app destined to dethrone Facebook in 2012. Should companies give up promoting holidays on Facebook? What was LinkedIn known as in 2013?

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3 Facebook Features That Benefit The Media

Cision

When Facebook first launched, users searched for classmates and dorm room friends. Now, 63 percent of users (up from 47 percent in 2013) log into their accounts to get the news. In fact, Facebook users are more likely to post and respond to news content than Twitter users. Why the shift? Trending Now.

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Gearing Up For Social Slam 2013

Waxing UnLyrical

And this is what I’m pretty sure I will get at SMC Knoxville’s Social Slam 2013 , which will kick off in exactly three weeks and three days from today (April 5). I’m excited to be gearing up for Social Slam 2013. Gearing Up For Social Slam 2013 is a post from: Waxing UnLyrical. Enter Social Slam.

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The Moments That Made Social Slam 2013 Momentous

Waxing UnLyrical

Social Slam 2013. Social Slam 2013. Blog posts previewing or reviewing Social Slam 2013. Social Slam 2013 Recap: From the Eyes of an Organizer. Jonathan Barrick) Social Slam 2013 has concluded, and that makes me sad. However, Social Slam 2013 was awesome, and that makes me happy. Listly by Shonali Burke.

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Three Random Thoughts on April 19, 2013

Waxing UnLyrical

Boston_Police) April 20, 2013. Three Random Thoughts on April 19, 2013 is a post from: Waxing UnLyrical. Twitter Facebook Google+ LinkedIn Three Random Thoughts on April 19, 2013. Not Andersoon Cooper on CNN, though you could tell he was just itching to. It was the Boston Police Department: Suspect in custody.