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What Compels People to Share Your Content?

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Have you ever wondered what compels people to share content on their social networks? Facebook insists it has the answer: write better content. A Harvard marketing professor named Thales Texeira has done some recent studies of content virality and sharing. In other words, the bandwidth for content consumption is fixed.

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Five Signs the Future Belongs to User-Generated Content

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Today’s lesson is user-generated content 101 and five reasons why the future belongs to the users. User-generated content is far better at creating that community. Live event social media generally involves a social media person or standard event-goer using a mobile device to put content online. Here they are: 1. Gamification.

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The Changing Face of Authoritative Content

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How content can be used to shape opinion and drive behavior should be a huge part of your social PR strategy. But what we consider “authoritative content” has changed dramatically, and continues to do so. Back in the day, the news media were the primary gatekeepers of reliable and authoritative content.

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#measurePR Recap (October 2016): Measuring Content

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The October 13th edition of #measurePR focused on measuring content. Here’s some of what we talked about: On how we can benchmark the amount of time it takes to create effective content: A2 #measurePR First step, establish your #KPIs. Have a content plan. A2-2: Truly effective content isn’t cheap and it isn’t easy.

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Monday Roundup: Evaluating Content

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I’ve lost count of the number of crowns Content wears. But the thing is, it’s true; when you’re strategizing or planning to implement social PR today, content is related to practically everything we do. Do you think your content is doing what it’s supposed to do, or could it use a little nudge?

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Give Your Content Marketing a Human Face

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Content marketing does much more for your brand than just aid your marketing. Effective content marketing shapes your brand by giving it a face to know, like, and trust. Content marketing and becoming human. Effective content marketing gives your company a human face, and makes it more appealing, engaging, and trustworthy.

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Smarter Ways to Measure Authoritative Content

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Last week I talked about how what we consider “authoritative content” has changed rapidly, and continues to do so. If you’ve bought into that, then how do you find smarter ways to measure authoritative content? What does this mean for your content? So how do you now measure the validity of this content?

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