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Social Media and Procrastination

Saying It Social

'A look into why social media sites are the go-to destination for millennials procrastinating, and how businesses can take advantage of these habits. The post Social Media and Procrastination appeared first on.

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Facebook Messenger Is #1 Messaging App In The U.S.

Firebelly

'Despite their outcries about privacy and security concerns, Americans can’t seem to get enough of Facebook Messenger. A recent report by Parks Associates shows that 53% of Americans using messaging apps are on Messenger—putting it in the #1 spot ahead of Skype, Snapchat and iMessage. Is there any stopping Facebook in its battle for the backchannel?

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Why Did a Russian Weed Company Just Buy Ebola.com for $200,000?

Navolutions

'If you haven’t heard the news, businessman Jon Schultz just sold Ebola.com for a whopping $200,000, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Jacob Davidson from Time.com put it best: A newly renamed, Russian weed-related company bought Ebola.com using shares of a medical marijuana business run by a former Libertarian Party presidential candidate who thinks that pot should be used to treat Ebola.

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How to Manage 19 Social Media Channels

Convince & Convert

'Tweetable Moments It’s all about helping through the content. DaveMurr Tweet This. Listening and Results Measurement. Dave Murray ‘s 12-person social media team handles content creation, social media management, and social media customer service for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan. The two blogs his team runs — A Healthier Michigan and Michigan Blues Perspectives — are indicative of the two roles BCBSM’s social media channels play.

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21 Advanced ChatGPT Prompts To Take Your Social Media to the Next Level

Upgrade your social media game with our in-depth playbook: "21 advanced ChatGPT prompts for social media managers". These powerful prompts are tailored to supercharge your content creation, strategy development, and results analysis. Say goodbye to writer's block and hello to endless creativity as you effortlessly generate engaging posts, come up with original strategies, and optimize your social media performance - all in a fraction of the time.

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Inbox by Gmail Doesn’t Work with Google Apps

Bill Hartzer

'The new Inbox by Gmail , launched just recently , does not work with email accounts set up through Google Apps. My company, for example, uses our Gmail accounts for our email. And, I use Gmail even on my phone for email. So, I was kind of excited to try the new Inbox by Gmail. But, when I got the invite from Google, I downloaded the app, and got the following after installing it: It’s not that we haven’t set up our company’s email to work with Inbox by Gmail yet.

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How to Establish a Pinterest Marketing Strategy in 9 Easy Steps (With Pictures)

Devumi

'Your business just opened a Pinterest business account and you’re wondering how to establish a Pinterest marketing strategy…that’s why you clicked on my very descriptive headline! Pinterest is a very different social media platform when compared to Twitter, with minor similarities to Facebook. If you think you can cut and paste your Facebook strategy though, you’re going to fail.

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3 Writing Techniques to Double Your Productivity

Writtent Blog

'Productivity is huge in freelance writing and blogging. Like, make or break your business huge. What a lot of people don’t often realize is that any freelance writer actually has a ton of stuff to do. First and foremost, there’s the actual work: the article writing/blogging/copywriting. Then, there are clients to email. Prospects to Skype. Sources to interview.

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How I stick to a 30 hour work week (and how you can too)

Absolute PA

'I was sitting opposite my doctor in her consulting room – a fatigue specialist at The Royal Free Hospital in London. We were going through the results of my blood tests, and I was hoping for a conclusive diagnosis that would explain mysterious symptoms I’d battled with for the past year. The specialist asked me hundreds of questions about my lifestyle, daily activities, my diet, sleeping patterns.

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Where Does Amazing Work Come From?

Twist Image

'Every brand wants amazing work. Every agency wants to create amazing work for the brands that they represent. It doesn''t just happen. The cash register doesn''t start ringing on its own. Having consumers talk about a brand is rarely something that starts as organically as it seems. People often ask me about where great ideas come from. There needs to be a root.

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ICYMI – Ad revenues grow, Facebook reach declines

Danny WhatMough

'Here’s my weekly round-up of things you need to know and might have missed this last week in the world of digital PR and social media. Want this in your inbox each week? Subscribe here. News. Digital ad revenues grow 15% to $23.1bn as mobile jumps 76%. Adobe has reported that Facebook organic reach is down 50% year-on-year. Twitter adds sound through new audio cards.

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Social Media Automation 101

A beginner's guide to social media automation tools and getting automation right.

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Mobile Devices Are Changing The Way We Do Search

Small Business Mavericks

'“Where scanning was once more horizontal , the adoption of mobile devices over the past 9 years has habitually conditioned searchers to now scan more vertically —they are looking for the fastest path to the desired content, and, compared to 9 years ago, they are viewing more search results listings during a single session and spending less time viewing each one.” – Rebecca Maynes.

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Visualizing Dirty Jobs

Visually SM

Not every person enjoys working in that coveted corner office. In fact, thousands of people are employed in industries that might appear to most of us like a rerun of TV’s “Dirty Jobs”, complete with long hours spent beneath the hot sun hauling garbage, treating wastewater or educating neighborhoods about the need to leave feral cats well enough alone.

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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #227

Twist Image

'Is there one link, story, picture or thought that you saw online this week that you think somebody you know must see? My friends: Alistair Croll ( BitCurrent , Year One Labs , GigaOM , Human 2.0 , Solve For Interesting , the author of Complete Web Monitoring , Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Networks and Lean Analytics ), Hugh McGuire ( PressBooks , LibriVox , iambik and co-author of Book: A Futurist''s Manifesto ) and I decided that every week the three of us are going to share

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Visualizing Dirty Jobs

Visually SM

Not every person enjoys working in that coveted corner office. In fact, thousands of people are employed in industries that might appear to most of us like a rerun of TV’s “Dirty Jobs”, complete with long hours spent beneath the hot sun hauling garbage, treating wastewater or educating neighborhoods about the need to leave feral cats well enough alone.

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The Content Marketing Survival Guide: How to Navigate the Wilds of Social Media

Use this guide to inspire your creativity and ignite more successful and sustainable social media conversations.