Blog Posts by The Newstex Team

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January 16, 2015
The Effects of Social News Consumption on Journalism

The journalism and news industry has changed dramatically in recent years and the continued growth of social news consumption has changed not only how audiences get news but also how journalists create news stories.

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January 15, 2015
2015 Research Resolutions

What's your 2015 research revolution? That's the question asked by George King of Digital Science (a software and technology company for the scientific research community), and a lot of people are responding by publishing their research resolutions on Twitter using the #researchresolution hashtag.

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January 10, 2015
U.K. Attorneys Prefer Twitter and LinkedIn

While there are still many people in the legal profession who worry about publishing online content and posting on social media sites, things have changed a lot in the past few years.

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January 8, 2015
Digital Content in Real-Time

The amount of content that is uploaded and shared online every second is staggering and seems nearly impossible to calculate, but WebpageFX has created a tool that does exactly that.

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December 26, 2014
Top Search Trends of 2014 Revealed by Google

The world was obsessed with celebrities and sports in 2015 based on Google's top search trends of 2014. According to Google, the top search of the year was Robin Williams followed by World Cup. Even the top Google Doodles of 2014 were related to sports.

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December 19, 2014
The Evolution of Academic Blogging

In the academic world, professors' jobs are often dependent on the publication of peer-reviewed articles in scholarly journals. Many professors around the world write blogs every day and those blogs are fascinating, but until recently, blogging wasn't taken very seriously in the academic community.

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December 16, 2014
SoakSoak Malware Compromises 100,000 WordPress Sites with RevSlider Plugin

On Sunday, Sucuri reported a huge malware campaign referred to as "SoakSoak" that had compromised over 100,000 self-hosted WordPress sites.

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December 11, 2014
5 Tips to Respond to Negative Online Comments with Authority

As an Authoritative Content publisher, you publish content that is useful, meaningful, and trustworthy. Your audience reads your content because they perceive you as a reliable and credible source for information that matters to them.

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December 9, 2014
Journalism Partnerships: The Future of News

Journalism partnerships have been gaining popularity quickly since 2008, and according to a new research report from Pew Research Center, Journalism Partnerships: A New Era of Interest, this trend will play a significant role in the future of news reporting, publishing, and distribution.

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November 27, 2014
Journalism and Technology Should Be Equal Partners

In her speech at the Reuters Memorial Lecture 2014 for the Reuters Institute at the University of Oxford this month, Emily Bell, director at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism Law School, discussed the dangers to free press caused by the inordinate power of Silicon Valley's social platforms and search engines

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November 25, 2014
Social Media Marketing Trends for 2015

What will be hot and what won't be in social media marketing for 2015? It's that time of year and everyone is publishing their thoughts online, but let's go beyond opinions and conjecture to look at some facts based on user behavior.

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November 8, 2014
5 End-of-Year Technology Review Tasks for Content Publishers

Believe it or not, more than a month of the third quarter of 2014 has already passed, and it's time to start end-of-year reviews and clean-ups in preparation for 2015.

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