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Top Five: New social media ‘stories’ features

Sherrilynne Starkie

Must-know social media news for communicators and marketers for this week include new Stories innovations from Facebook and YouTube, insight on finance journalists, a new editor for a LGBTQ+ magazine and search innovations from Google. The new CTA sticker suggestions are based on the CTAs already featured on the page.

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Social Media Marketing for Beginners: 10 Tips

Hootsuite

It’s time to take your first steps into social media marketing. billion people are social media users. Worldwide, social users spend almost two and a half hours on social platforms each day. Find more eye-popping stats about social media here !) Your mind is ready. Your body is ready.

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6 Tools to Fine-Tune Your Social Media Advertising Strategy

Convince & Convert

Social media advertising is a great way to quickly generate new customers and create a social media buzz around your (new) product. Social media strategy needs constant tweaking, analyzing, and learning from your or your competitors’ successes and failures.

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How Time Magazine Gained 1.2 Million Google+ Followers

The Realtime Report

Time magazine has become one of the most popular news brands on Google+, with over 1.2 million users adding Time to their circles on the social network. In addition, Time is taking advantage of several features unique to Google+, including circles and hangouts. add a Google+ button to each news story.

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Top Social Media Campaigns in 2013

The Realtime Report

What were the best social media campaigns in 2013? From funny to heartwarming, these brands crafted special messages around the holiday and used social media to engage consumers. The videos – featuring dogs getting into stinky, gross items (baby diapers, anyone?)

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14 Tips for Preserving Your Mental Health While Working in Social Media

Ignite Social Media

Social media was born in the late 1990s and has since grown into one of the most highly used forms of communication in our world. population use social media, and regular usage has spiked this year in large due to the global pandemic. I limit my time or take full breaks from my personal social accounts.

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How to Get Started With One-to-One Social Media Engagement

Oktopost

One of the big problems with social media today is that too many individuals and businesses are using it as a push channel. In contrast to traditional media, social media is more about developing relationships and trying to identify how you as a brand can add value to your customers.”. What do I mean by that?