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How Distributed Content Can Help Control Social Messaging

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Perhaps you’re familiar with the term “distributed content” ( content that is published to third-party platforms rather than to an owned website). For example, what’s most likely to get click-through on Facebook: a link or an organic article ? Begin publishing. Apple News.

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Volunteers Make The World Go Round: Communicating Effectively for Impact

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Evidence of volunteerism’s physical effects can be found in a study from Carnegie Mellon University, published in 2013 in Psychology and Aging. Whether your organization is large or small, chances are that you will have to work with volunteers at some point. Show and share the successes of the organization. Reinforce this.

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What a Sandcastle Reminded Me About Strategy

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So when you’re coming up with your strategy and measurable objectives, everything that you and your organization are going to invest—in that initiative—must be worth it from a business point of view, i.e. not negative, but more of a “net gain.” They need to be in the realm of “net gain.”

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Understanding Paid, Owned and Earned Media

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While some assume the name connotates free media, in reality it often means the organization deploys agencies, PR and social media staff to garner earned media. Owned is when a company acts like a media organization and publishes its own content, on its site, in print or on social networks.

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I Need to Develop a Strategy. Now What? The Winnie-the-Pooh Way Forward

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Vision, Statement, Mission, Goals, Organization, Strategic, Planning, Analysis. Organization is paramount in moving from planning to developing, and then executing, the strategy. This will help you and the organization to start to narrow your focus and wrangle all the ideas floating around. What stands out here?

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10 Key Marketing Automation Features You Should Know

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Marketing data can be acquired, analyzed and acted upon efficiently, at a low cost, to provide immense benefits to the organization, regardless of the field or clientele. Companies must ensure that their customers are engaged with the organization through all their touchpoints and have seamless access to their online platforms.

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The Power of You

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That we communicate – and help our organizations communicate – in a way that brings people to hope, not to despair. Founder and publisher of Waxing UnLyrical, Shonali Burke helps smart businesses make bank by taking their communications from corporate codswallop to community cool™. Image: Thinkstock.

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