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How to Design On-Brand Instagram Stories

Ignite Social Media

Curating an Instagram aesthetic that stops users in their tracks is #goals for any brand, but with the rise of Instagram stories, having a recognizable look and feel that extends beyond your channel is more important than ever. Design site Canva offers hundreds of templates to remix and repurpose. Not a designer? No worries!

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The ‘Creative Desert’: Brainstorming Social Content Ideas During Slow Days

Social Media Strategies Summit

To help you out when you’re lost in the creative desert, we gathered a panel of social media experts to discuss how to run effective brainstorming sessions for social media campaigns, create the mental space to induce creative thinking, and use KPIs and goals as a guide for what you want to achieve with your posts.

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How to Repost a Reel on Instagram (to Feed, Stories, and Reels)

Hootsuite

Curating and reposting Reels means you can post more often, which the Instagram Reels algorithm loves, without needing to invest more content creation time. Remix a Reel. Of course, ensure the Reel you remix fits your content strategy and brand, and that your response is biz-appropriate. And, it’s a lot more original.

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Instagram Reels 101: Everything Your Brand Needs to Know to Get Started

Social Media Strategies Summit

Instagram is the world’s fifth-largest social media site. The viral video platform burst out of nowhere to become one of the hottest properties in social media marketing, and it’s having a marked impact on Instagram. Social media has always been a fantastic way for brands to demonstrate their personality.

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How Government Agencies Can Keep Their Communities Engaged in Creative Ways [VIDEO]

Social Media Strategies Summit

Government agencies can leverage social media to share (sometimes critically) important information with their communities. Led by Emily Allen Lucht , the Director of Communications for the State of Maryland, this panel answered some of the most common questions we hear from social media marketers in government.

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The Creator’s Toolkit: 27+ Content Creation Tools for Every Stage of the Process

Buffer Social

How it helps : Where ChatGPT (and any other AI research tools) wins over Google is that it can curate information for you. Instead, it shares a curated answer in the format you request. Visual content creation tools So many of the social media and content creation platforms available to us are visually oriented.

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Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup & Into the Mind

Kikolani

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, business, freelancing, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com. 14 Sources for Content Curation Inspiration – Increasingly, marketers are finding, organizing and sharing third-party content among their other efforts.

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