Blog Posts by The Newstex Team

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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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November 4, 2014
Mobile App Development in 2015 - What's Coming?

Mobile app development will look very different in the near future if the predictions that Forrester Research has made for mobile development in 2015 are accurate.No longer will simply building apps be enough.

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November 1, 2014
6 Ways to Communicate Language Choices in Online Content

The internet is global so making your Authoritative Content available in multiple languages can easily increase your reach, expand your brand, and build your audience.But there is a problem. How do you communicate language choices in your web design in a streamlined yet effective way?

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October 31, 2014
Millennials Trust Online-Only News Sites More than Network and Cable TV News

A new report based on results of The Harris Poll of 2,537 U.S. adults in August 2014 reveals that online-only news sites (like Huffington Post and Yahoo! News) are trusted to deliver news fairly and accurately more by younger audiences than older audiences.

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October 25, 2014
Moving From Mobile Consideration to Mobile Action

In January of this year, I wrote an article for the Newstex blog about the five critical reasons publishers need a "mobile always" strategy. Today, the majority of digital content is consumed on mobile devices, and the majority of social media time is spent on mobile devices, too.

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