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Duet, the Multitasking App That Will Make You Sing

Waxing UnLyrical

Guest Post by Emma Hawes. The most annoying thing while multitasking across devices and programs is trying to remember which program you are running where. This can quickly become confusing. Well, those days are over with Duet , a program that allows your iPad to function as a computer monitor. What makes this cool? Duet allows for perfect harmony between all the programs you have to run.

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How to Find Amazing Content for Your Social Media Calendar (And Save Yourself Tons of Work)

The Social Media Hat

Social Media How to Find Amazing Content for Your Social Media Calendar (And Save Yourself Tons of Work). Social media marketers know that curating, creating and posting social content can take a lot of time. In fact, many freelancers and agencies stay away from offering social media services because it's so time-consuming. However, this is a field that is growing exponentially, and you don't want to miss out just because of the time crunch.

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Facebook Instant Articles: How to Get Started for Business

Rebekah Radice

Wondering what Facebook Instant articles are or why they should matter to your business? Just look at how mobile is changing the way we browse the web. Every day the demand grows for faster sites and a better user experience. According to Kissmetrics , 47% of consumers expect a web page to load in 2 seconds or less. And 40% of people abandon a website that takes more than 3 seconds to load.

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Drug Research Barrier Set To Be Removed

The Realtime Report

Drug Research Barrier Set To Be Removed. According to officials, the Obama administration has plans to do away with a big roadblock that has been hindering marijuana research. This could potentially spur broader scientific study of marijuana and its use in treating a wide array of diseases and medical conditions across many states in the country. It is expected that this new policy by the administration will also increase the available supply of marijuana dramatically so that researchers can get

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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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Fluency of Culture, Not Language, Is Key to Winning Big in Global Online Markets

Webbiquity SMM

Guest post by Charles Whiteman. The smartest companies are always looking to reach untapped markets. These days, most are finding success by engaging new global consumers through digital channels. By communicating with online customers in their languages of choice—on their devices of choice—businesses can sell to more markets than ever before. Marketers can face challenges during such expansions, however.

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Why Your Online Friends Are Not Friends

Ari Herzog

Every story about social media eventually mentions Dunbar’s number , a theory popularized by psychologist Robin Dunbar about the relationship between the size of your brain and the size of your average social group. He proposed that 150 friends is the average cognitive limit that our brains allow for stable relationships. It is therefore irrelevant how many friends you claim to have on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, and other social media sites.

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Ignite Social Media Promotes Bounds to President, Announces Other Management Changes

Ignite Social Media

Social Agency Bucks Industry Diversity Trend and Taps Three for All Female Leadership Team. CARY , NORTH CAROLINA August 30 , 2016. Bucking the ‘lack of representation’ trend in the advertising business, Ignite Social Media today announced several management changes. The agency, recently named the Social Agency of the Year Worldwide in the Corporate Social Media Awards, named its current Chief Operating Officer Deidre Bounds as President of the agency, effective 9/1.

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[Interview] How Eric Cantona and #LeBigSwim Created An Ocean Of 2.5 Million Engagements

Audiense

Kronenbourg’s Bronze Lions winning campaign proved one big thing, people will get involved in your social media strategy if they care about the content. It began with an audacious claim, that Eric would swim the 20 mile wide English Channel that separates the UK and France on one condition: 10,000 British people had to declare on social media that they believed Kronenbourg to be the supreme beer.

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Takeaways From Disney’s Social Media Moms Conference

Jenn's Trends

Yes, I was invited to a social media conference at Disneyland, and yes, it was awesome. I will share all of my takeaways from the Social Media Moms conference here with you, but first I want to share how/why I was invited – because I’ve been asked this dozens of time! So, first of all,… The post Takeaways From Disney’s Social Media Moms Conference appeared first on Jenn's Trends.

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Why I Never Appreciated WiFi Data Until Now

Ari Herzog

This shows the past three days of total data usage. Click to zoom. Days after installing Data Usage Monitor on my phone (and that’s a link for Android phones), I started to understand my data dependency. The app teaches me the benefit of connecting to wifi hotspots instead of relying on my phone provider’s wifi. I never thought about connecting my phone to my apartment’s wifi.

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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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4 Brand Opportunities for Instagram Stories

Ignite Social Media

Instagram Stories is only a few weeks old but brands have already leaped at this new opportunity to engage with their fans. In this blog, we’ll be highlighting some of the opportunities that brands have identified and which brands are successfully achieving results. Behind-the-Scenes Content. Instagram Stories offers brands even more opportunity to create behind-the-scenes content that really shows off their culture.

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L’Oreal celebrates diversity with #YoursTruly and GHD supports breast cancer with #NotDefined

Audiense

September has already started and that means the end of the holiday season… So now you’re back in the office with plenty of energy, we want to share with you our favourite campaigns of this week. Keep reading to find out how a hair brand shows their support breast cancer patients, or how a back to school picture can help Save The Children and how L’oreal want us to celebrate diversity with #Yourstruly.

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How to Leverage Newsjacking Without Being a Jerk

Convince & Convert

Tapping into trending news is part of what keeps web content relevant and real for readers. Newsjacking is simply taking newsworthy events and piggybacking your content to capture (hopefully) some of the search traffic. Ultimately, this can help increase your site views, as well as sales or profits. However, when done poorly, newsjacking can make you a jerk.

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Stop Producing Noise

Ari Herzog

We spend too much time producing and consuming noise because we assume that people want to read everything we write. How vain of us. We don’t think about the stuff that everyone else is writing. We know we need to focus on finding the signals hidden inside the noise. We know it’s a difficult task. Mike Beauchamp elaborated this in 2011 : I think a major issue going forward for Facebook, and other social sites, will be finding a better way to sift out relevant posts from noise.

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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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Hire Me! – Social Media Networking for the Job Hunter

Ignite Social Media

You recently graduated college and you are ready to take on the world! You have a degree and you think you are one hot commodity in this big world! Hey, you even added a few connections on LinkedIn. Your connections are not just your friends but maybe a few key people at your dream companies. You know you are awesome, so why won’t “this dream company” hire you?

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Get The Perfect Tan With KFC And Celebrate Bank Holiday With #TryMeFree from Coca Cola

Audiense

Summer mode is still on and we can feel it in the social trends , such as the new KFC campaign that has launched a surprisingly unexpected product, or the one from Coca Cola that celebrates holidays by giving free Zero Cokes with #TryMeFree. Also, what if we tell you that Little Mix performed in a McDonald’s? Yup! Keep reading to find out more! Summer gets yummy with KFC.

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Find and Activate Influencers With Insightpool

Convince & Convert

Chris Hackney talks about Insightpool, the influencer marketing tool that will transform how your brand connects with authentic advocates.

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How Promotion Affects Engagement for Malaysian Insurance Brands

Unmetric

Insurance agents make a living out of their gift of the gab. I wanted to see if their social media accounts were anything like that, and how much engagement they get. I added AIA, Allianz, AXA AFFIN, Great Eastern Life, Prudential and Zurich in Analyze. The report generator was kind enough to give me a detailed analysis of what the top Insurance Brands in Malaysia were up to on Facebook during the month of July 2016.

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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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You’re Too Old for Facebook’s New App | Social You Should Know

Ignite Social Media

Facebook this week introduced Lifestage, a new app only available to people in the “high school” life stage. I’ll discuss that, plus improvements that make Facebook video ads much easier and Twitter notifications much cleaner, in this week’s Social You Should Know. Lifestage is Facebook’s New High School Only App. If you’re 22 or older, you can download Lifestage, but you’ll be blocked from seeing any content.

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Analyze Page Performance With the New LinkedIn Company Pages Report

Sprout Social

As an official LinkedIn® Certified Company Page Partner, analytics are a key component of Sprout’s integration. We’re excited to announce that we’ve added the LinkedIn® Company Pages Report to our suite of network reports. The new report provides comprehensive Page level data to help social businesses make strategic decisions. A Closer Look at LinkedIn® Analytics.

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Free images for your content marketing

Janet Fouts

Looking for free or close-to-free images to use in your blog posts and social content? Here ya go! These are not like your ordinary stock images either. Enjoy.

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The Modern CMO: Ways to Overcome Brand Measurement Challenges

Meltwater

Today’s marketers are under more pressure than ever to measure performance and quantify the impact… Read More.

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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 Search Twitter Like James Bond

agora pulse

You’re a lot more like James Bond than you think. You’re sophisticated, adventurous (you’re working with new media!), and you likely have more access and higher security clearance to the company’s social media accounts than your CEO does. That means that you also have access to the best tools to do your job, and one of those tools is Twitter search. “What did you expect, an exploding pen?

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Instagram Stories: How 18 Brands And Influencers Are Using It (And You Can Too!)

Buffer Social

10 billion. That’s the number of videos people watch on Snapchat every day. The same potential consumption (maybe more) exists for Instagram Stories — quick videos and photos that disappear after 24 hours, just like Snapchat, but with an audience of 500 million users. Does that sound like a channel worth exploring? We believe so! Storytelling has always been a key part of marketing, and features like Instagram Stories are empowering us marketers to tell better and deeper stories about our

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WhatsApp’s Privacy Policy Change & What It Means For Brands

Unmetric

If you’ve not gotten the notification yet or simply clicked Agree without reading, here’s some news, WhatsApp is changing its terms and privacy policy. Don’t panic, your messages are still fully encrypted and no one will be able to read them. However, this new update answers a lot of questions and speculations we had when Facebook bought WhatsApp for $19 Billion.

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PR Outreach: Learning from Chipotle’s Crisis

Meltwater

Introduce the IssueA crisis isn’t the only high-stakes situation in which your pitch simply has… Read More.

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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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What is My Agency Supposed to Do with Social Listening?

agora pulse

Have you ever wished you could be a fly on the wall when people are discussing you or your brand? Well, what if I told you there is a way to listen in without turning into an insect? Defined as the process of monitoring digital conversations, your agency can use social listening to understand what customers are saying about your brand and industry online.

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11 Ways to Jumpstart Your Instagram Branding

Sprout Social

Starting your Instagram branding from scratch can seem like a tall order task. Far too often we see brands on Instagram turn their channels into graveyards. Typically you see about 15 photos, 150 followers and zero updates in the last couple of months. If you’re reading this and know you fall into this category–that’s fine–we’re here to help. Integrating Instagram into your marketing and branding strategy is essential for any business trying to grow their audience.

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Breaking Through The Blockchain

Twist Image

Many people ask "what's next" for technology? Whatever happens next, the blockchain will be a part of it. It's not the easiest of technologies to understand. I still find myself daydreaming about what the blockchain is, and what the implications will be for business. I have a handful of close friends who are betting big on it (startups infused with a lot of external capital).

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Prepare for PR Crisis with These 6 Tactics

Meltwater

Preparing for a PR crisis requires getting out of the mindset that keeps us busy… Read More.

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#125: How to Create a WOW Experience When Selling Online Programs

Amy Porterfield

You bring something incredibly unique to your online course—your special delivery, your ideas, your personal experiences. However, you still want to go that extra mile to WOW your students and make sure they feel like buying your course was more than just a worthy investment. Recently I heard some important (and crazy) statistics on customer […].

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