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What the heck are social media consultants and what do they do all day?

Sherrilynne Starkie

Social media consultants are not masters of the dark arts. Companies often call a consultant in because social media is not working. Companies often call a consultant in because social media is not working. A lot of people think of social media as marketing, and it’s an important part.

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How Distributed Content Can Help Control Social Messaging

Waxing UnLyrical

Yet with social media platforms, oftentimes messaging is controlled by the user. Perhaps you’re familiar with the term “distributed content” ( content that is published to third-party platforms rather than to an owned website). Begin publishing. Apple News. 40 percent of mobile devices in the U.S.

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Tech Tip: 3 Simple Things You Can Do To Improve The Backend Of Your Site

SocMed Sean

This sure opens up a lot of possibilities, from redirecting an old URL to a new address, to helping clean up the complex or nonsensical URL that is coming from an abysmal publishing system – providing you with a URL that is not only user-friendly but also search engine-friendly. By default, WordPress has a terrible URL structure.

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Learning via the Social Media Game

Bare Feet Studios

Tomorrow I am working with an esteemed group of coral reef scientists here in Hawaii to illustrate various ways to use social media. I will be using a version of The Social Media Game , an interactive learning process originally developed by my darling colleague Beth Kantor a few years ago. Social Network.

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The Complete Solo Build It! Review - An Insider’s Perspective

The Social Media Hat

I've built sites using Geocities, FrontPage, Dreamweaver, PHP-Nuke, GoDaddy, Joomla, Drupal, Wix and WordPress. If it were me, I could use professional interests like social media and blogging, or more personal interests like Star Wars. Countless articles were published and accomplished nothing - and are useless to me today.

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Why Livefyre Is The Best Blog Comment System Evah

Waxing UnLyrical

If you publish a blog, there are three things I want to tell you today. As you might know, I publish regularly in three places including WUL, and have back end access to one of the other blogs, which currently uses Disqus. I strongly suggest you check it out, particularly if you publish a WordPress blog. Short version.

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Nurture Your Pinterest Audience With These Fabulous Tools

The Social Media Hat

Social Media Nurture Your Pinterest Audience With These Fabulous Tools. It's official, Pinterest is mainstream social network and one that virtually every blogger and business should be exploring. PRO TIP : Make sure that every blog post you publish has both a landscape image and a portrait image for Pinterest.

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