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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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February 17: This week in social media

Sherrilynne Starkie

Ottawa’s Twitter top 20 for 2012. 100 Content Marketing Tools for PRs: From Content Marketing Software to Content Curation. February 17: this week in social media. View more lists from Sherrilynne Starkie. Related posts: Five Ottawa Facebook pages worth checking out. October’s most popular posts. Related articles.

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Facebook LinkedIn Twitter in 2013

Ari Herzog

Of the three largest social networking sites in the United States, I plan to use Facebook the most, LinkedIn the second-most, and Twitter the least. Twitter in 2013. Curated lists were used a lot in 2012 and will be leveraged much more frequently to categorize people and observe trends. Facebook in 2013. Got a question?

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Social Media Trends 2012 – Analytics and Measurement

Proactive Report

Today I am going back to the four social media trends Beverly Macy predicted would be hot in 2012 in the Huffington Post. Content creation and curation. TweetReach is a good tool for tracking amplifiers in Twitter. It’s no surprise to me that they are on the list of hot trends for 2012. Follow me on Twitter.

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Facebook and Twitter Offer News Organizations Much More than Just News Delivery

Adam Sherk

The Pew Research Center’s The State of the News Media 2012 is out and the section on What Facebook and Twitter Mean for News makes for an interesting read. The figures on where users get their news links from is already being covered as a sign that Facebook and Twitter may not be as strong of a news source as previously thought.

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Trends for 2012: Social Media Intelligence

Proactive Report

Content curation. They had a Twitter feed, a Facebook page and a YouTube Channel going, but the weren’t too sure who they were talking to in which channel. Social Media Intelligence is definitely a trend to watch in 2012. Better use of analytics and more focus on measurement. Social media education and training.

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