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Facebook is local media

Stephen Waddington

Local Facebook pages and groups are replacing local media according to research from Braintree, Essex. By Dan Slee If there’s one thing I can tell you it’s that Facebook groups and pages in a local area are huge. A Facebook group set-up by two people banned from a pub. Facebook is not just a global platform.

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Facebook is local media

Stephen Waddington

Facebook pages and groups are replacing local media according to research from Braintree, Essex. By Dan Slee If there’s one thing I can tell you it’s that Facebook groups and pages in a local area are huge. Exploring a community In September last year I set about counting the Facebook groups and pages in Braintree.

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Ricky Gervais is right (and wrong) about the local paper

Prakkypedia

In Ricky Gervais’s latest TV series, After Life , he’s a writer at a free community newspaper. After several grumpy episodes interviewing local people about their so-called “stories”, Ricky’s character has an epiphany. He says ‘ everybody deserves to be in their local paper’ at least once in their lives.

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Facebook Unfriends News, and it’s a Shame

Flack's Revenge

I had to smile when I read that Facebook’s reducing news content in the newsfeed. Just recall the headlines: May 2016 – Facebook is accused of liberal bias in the feed. Just recall the headlines: May 2016 – Facebook is accused of liberal bias in the feed. March 2017 – Facebook launches new AI tool to fight fake news.

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How to Make Facebook a Career Book

PR Job Coach

The revelation that companies are asking potential employees for Facebook passwords got me thinking about how Facebook has rapidly evolved as both diary and biography. Given the addition of timeline to Facebook’s configuration, people on the hunt would do well to make Facebook work for them instead of the converse.

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What A Dog’s Cancer Taught Me About Community

Waxing UnLyrical

Suzy underwent a second surgery fairly quickly (the first was done less than a week after we first saw the tumor, to excise it from her mouth)—this second one was a “partial mandibulectomy ,” which means part of her jaw was removed to ensure there were no local cancer cells left. Through Facebook. This is not an ode to Facebook.

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Brands Bring Substance To COVID-19 Response

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Most have learned from early mistakes or half-measures and have designed campaigns that make a positive impact for employees, customers, and communities. Facebook, meanwhile is dramatically expanding its Community Help feature to address the pandemic. Facebook, too, is working to correct misinformation and rumors.

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