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2012 in Recap: The Year of Visual Social Media

Mindjumpers

But 2012 was also characterised by being the year when visual content came into focus, as Sara predicted. In 2012, the photo sharing platform Instagram became immensely popular, which proved that users are increasingly visually focused. Facebook Timeline. Facebook & Instagram: success and turbulences.

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Social Media Trends 2012 – Content Curation in PR

Proactive Report

In her post about social media trends in 2012 Beverly Macy says content curation is important because people want to know what’s important and they want to discover interesting and relevant content. “Competitive advantage goes to companies who quickly figure out how to enable effective aggregation curation.

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4 Emerging Social Media Trends to Watch in 2020

Social Media Strategies Summit

Source: PEW Surveys conducted 2012-2019. At the same time, social media users have begun to shun overly curated and filtered views of life in favor of more authentic, in-the-moment content, often in the form of quick and easily digestible video clips. Platforms to watch: Instagram Stories, TikTok. Source: Snapchat.

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20 Bloggers to Watch in 2012

ProBlogger

Maria Popova describes herself as “interestingness curator and semi-secret geek obsessed with design, science, storytelling and combinatorial creativity” She is the editor of the much-loved Brain Pickings , which she described as a “a destination for indiscriminate curiosity.” In 2012, she’ll be just as busy.

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gazeMetrix: Monitor Your Visual Brand Mentions Based on Image Recognition

Mindjumpers

Reach out to users and curate user-generated content. Curating user-generated content is a great engagement technique, as user-generated content shows brand authenticity and fan appreciation, as well as acting as peer-to-peer recommendations. 2012 in Recap: The Year of Visual Social Media.

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Facebook LinkedIn Twitter in 2013

Ari Herzog

Curated lists were used a lot in 2012 and will be leveraged much more frequently to categorize people and observe trends. Between my profile and pages and groups, I’ll be using features on a more regular basis that I began using for the first time in 2012. Twitter in 2013.

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Three Words for 2013

Justin Levy

During the last months of 2012 I have been jotting down words in my notebook and starting to identify consistent themes as I reflected on my wins and opportunities from 2012. I’m proud of what was accomplished in 2012 but I want to make 2013 beg for mercy. Much of this I have already been working on as we wound down 2012.

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