Sat.Sep 22, 2018 - Fri.Sep 28, 2018

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Blogging Tip: Increase Your Traffic By Solving Problems

SocMed Sean

When it comes to blogging, the phrase “birds of a feather, flock together” rings very true. Those that visit your blog and read your articles consistently likely care about many of the same things you care about. Whether it’s technology, parenting, current events, arts/crafts, or some other topic, your readers often find your blog through searches and recommendations of like-minded people on social networks.

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1310 News Powerlunch: Will Ottawa support the Sens this season?

Sherrilynne Starkie

I visited Mark Sutcliffe for the PowerLunch at 1310 News last week and enjoyed connecting with him and Kurt Stoodley, broadcaster and real estate professional. We discussed the potential for reinstating weekly garbage collection Ottawa. The three of us talked about which issues would most help Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer in the next federal election.

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LinkedIn Officially Launches its New 'Talent Insights' Recruitment Data Platform

Social Media Today

LinkedIn is officially launching its new 'Talent Insights' platform, which enables recruiters to tap into LinkedIn's unmatched professional dataset to make more informed, strategic decisions.

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Hootsuite Inbox: What's Really Going On?

The Social Media Hat

Hootsuite recently removed Twitter Direct Messages from all streams. How can Hootsuite users monitor DMs, and how much is it going to cost? Is there an alternative?

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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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Psychology of Social Media: The Science Behind Why People Share Online

Meltwater

Have you ever wondered why some content on social media goes viral? Or why seemingly strange social media trends catch fire and others fall flat?Believe it or not, there's a whole lot… Read More >>>.

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Power of Fun: Ignite Brand Awareness and Grow Your Business with the FUN Factor

Pam Moore

Did you know that brands that inspire a higher emotional intensity receive three times as much word of mouth as less emotionally connected brands? Given that the average attention span of humans is approximately eight seconds and that it takes 6-7 brand touches for someone to remember your brand, you better find a way to make your brand memorable. Yes, you can spend the next year mastering Facebook advertising, Instagram stories and live video.

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Social Media’s Role in Product Research and the Consumer Purchase Journey

Ignite Social Media

With U.S. users utilizing an average of seven U.S. social media accounts, and 98% of internet users visiting or utilizing a social network in the past month – social media is playing an increasingly important role in many consumer’s purchase journey. The recent US Market Report from Global Web Index showcased a few key findings to help marketers better understand the role social media plays in product research and purchase.

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Big Idea Marketing Trends That Can Transform Your Brand

Meltwater

Marketing trends come and go, sometimes as swiftly (and pitilessly) as the evening tide. Experts croon about them at the beginning of a year, and in the middle of the… Read More >>>.

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[New Features] ?? Summer time and deliverin' is easy.!

Audiense

We always love to hear your feedback, the good, the bad and the ugly. After weeks of hard work changing the audiense connect offer model , we are pleased to announce all the new features that have been going on behind the scenes at Audiense. ( Blog post soundtrack ).

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The Ultimate Guide to Creating and Marketing Infographics [Infographic]

Social Media Today

Infographics can be a great compliment within your broader digital content efforts. This infographic outlines the how and why of infographic creation and distribution.

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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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Twitter Cleans up Spam Accounts

Ignite Social Media

Facebook is not the only social media channel that is trying to build back their reputation. Twitter has been struggling ever since they moved away from their bread and butter of the reverse chronological feed in early 2016. The recent news that Twitter is overrun with fake accounts delivered a massive blow to Twitter’s reputation. Over the last few months, a Twitter clean up has been happening.

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Why Do We Underestimate The Role Of Women In Terrorist Organizations?

Forbes Social Media

In 2015, we were shocked that women – and girls – were voluntarily placing themselves in harm’s way by joining terrorist organizations like Islamic State. When there, they served as recruiters and radicalizers, the mothers of the next generation of fighters, and facilitators of violence.

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How to Add Blur Background Effect to Smartphone Photos and Videos

Socially Sorted

Want to know how to add a blur background effect to your smartphone photos without using a fancy camera? You can do it with any smartphone as long as you know a few tricks. In this post I share how to achieve professional photo blurring in the background of your photos without. // Read More. The post How to Add Blur Background Effect to Smartphone Photos and Videos appeared first on Socially Sorted.

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The How, Why and What Next of Facebook's Latest Data Breach

Social Media Today

Facebook has suffered another major data breach - here's an overview of what happened, what's impacted and what it may mean for Facebook moving forward.

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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.

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Lights, camera, Instagram TV: Everything you need to know about IGTV

Sprout Social

Video is a content goldmine. 500 million people watch Facebook videos every day. More than a billion people are active on YouTube. Snapchat users tune into 10 billion clips each day. As the most popular image-based social platform in the world, it’s no wonder that Instagram wants its piece of the video pie. From Instagram Stories to Instagram Live, the channel offers a multitude of ways to stream your life to followers.

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Instagram's Cofounders Resign Amid Turbulence At Facebook

Forbes Social Media

Instagram cofounders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger are stepping down from Facebook, which acquired their photo-sharing app six years ago. The cofounders reportedly decided to depart amid growing tensions with Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg over Instagram's future.

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Building a Lead Nurturing Campaign? Don’t Forget This

Oktopost

It’s one thing to attract potential buyers, but quite another to keep them engaged and interested in your company throughout the buyer journey. Chances are you or your marketing team have spent a great deal of time and money designing a lead nurturing campaign. That is, building relationships with prospects over time by producing content […].

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Do Facebook Page Likes Still Matter?

Social Media Today

Do Facebook page likes still matter? The short answer is 'not as much as they used to' - contributor Nathan Mendenhall explains why in this post.

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Social Media Marketing GPS

SMGPS will tell you the why & how to use social media for marketing, 1 tweet at a time. You'll learn essentials in digestible little spoonfuls.

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Facebook Stories Hits 300 Million Users and Rolls Out Ads Globally

Buffer Social

Today, Facebook has announced that it’s rolling out Facebook Stories Ads to advertisers globally. More than 300 million people use Facebook Stories and Messenger Stories every day. Since Snapchat debuted the Stories format back in 2013, it has taken over the social media landscape. Facebook first introduced the format to one of its properties in 2016 with the launch of Instagram Stories and has since launched similar updates across Whatsapp, Messenger and Facebook itself.

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Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon And Facebook Own Huge Market Shares = Technology Oligarchy

Forbes Social Media

The largest companies in the world are technology companies and the largest technology companies own huge market shares in their spaces. In fact, their market shares are growing. All this spells technology oligarchy. Good or bad?

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How To Maintain Real Life Friendships In A Digital World

Socialmedia.biz

The prevalence of social media in modern society seems like it would strengthen bonds and relationships between people, but this is not the case. Often times an individual may have hundreds of friends on social media, but will not be able to find one person to go to a movie with. This is because a friendship in real life and online connections are vastly different things.

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How Creative and Innovative Social Campaigns Can Help Maximize Performance

Social Media Today

In this post, social media expert Julio Viskovich looks at how brands can use the creative and social elements of social media to boost campaign performance.

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How to Be Social: A Social Media Manifesto

Learn the 10 worst social media marketing mistakes and how to avoid them.

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How to Master Vertical Video and Stories: Introducing Our New Email Series

Buffer Social

Today we’re launching a short email series enabling anyone to understand the importance of vertical video, and how to get started with the format. The Stories format, first popularized by Snapchat, has changed the social media landscape. The format, which encourages users to share short, vertical videos and images has presented marketers, creators, and individuals with innovative, interactive storytelling experiences — and has spearheaded the vertical video revolution.

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Artificial Intelligence Can Reinforce Bias, Cloud Giants Announce Tools For AI Fairness

Forbes Social Media

Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems must be trained fairly. Unfairly trained AI systems can reinforce bias. AI fairness is a dataset issue for each specific machine learning model. AI fairness is a new challenge. Cloud giants Facebook Amazon, Microsoft, Google, IBM are working on AI fairness tools.

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How Agorapulse Helped This Media Agency Free Up More Time For Client Innovation

agora pulse

Digital service providers don’t sell a physical, tangible product. They sell time. Time in a busy digital agency is a precious and extremely limited resource. It needs to be managed and balanced like ball bearings rolling across the deck of a ship in rough seas. The only way to cultivate more time is to free up blocks of it by replacing repetitive time-sucking tasks with more effective ones.

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The Psychology of Fake News: How Disinformation Spreads Online

Social Media Today

Fake news is a social problem, which won’t be resolved quickly. Here's an overview of why, and how, the issue is growing in the modern age.

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8 Stupid Simple Social Media Tricks to Boost SEO

Discover just how easy it is to boost SEO with social media.

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#230: Dealing With Depression as an Entrepreneur: Amy and Jasmine Star Open Up

Amy Porterfield

In honor of the upcoming World Mental Health Day (October 10, 2018), I wanted to have a candid, real, and raw conversation about being an entrepreneur while dealing with depression. I have dealt with depression starting at a young age and it moved its way into the years that I was starting this business as […]. The post #230: Dealing With Depression as an Entrepreneur: Amy and Jasmine Star Open Up appeared first on Amy Porterfield | Online Marketing Expert.

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How we’re redoubling our customer experience efforts in a time of constant change

Sprout Social

One of the most powerful aspects of social media is the way it’s rapidly evolved to become part of the fabric of both society and commerce. And no time has seen more change than the past six months. Between GDPR, social’s growing role in global politics and the importance of privacy, social networks have experienced significant and fundamental change.

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5 Ways Brands Can Use Emojis on Social Media

Likeable

We’re all emoji experts when it comes to texting, but using emojis on your brand’s social channels is a totally different game. While we tend to put most of our energy toward the words in our captions, these little icons can make your post copy pop in the feed when used creatively and sparingly. On Instagram specifically, research shows that posts with emojis have higher interaction rates.

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4 Ways You Can Use Interactive Content to Engage Your Audience

Social Media Today

Generating engagement is key to maximizing reach with social algorithms, and interactive content can help nudge your audience in that direction.

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Bangladeshi Digital Security Act Draws Fire From EU

Forbes Social Media

European diplomats in Bangladesh have issued a statement condemning the country's new Digital Security Act, saying it severely suppresses freedom of speech and of the media.

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