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Who will blink first in Canadian community newspaper staredown?

Sherrilynne Starkie

But the backroom deal between competing newspaper publishing companies Postmedia and TorStar must surely up the ante. This is a bad deal, not only for the almost 300 news media professionals who are out of a job, but because reporting local news is important to our communities. Photo by Mike Ackerman on Unsplash.

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Annual Social Media Budget Planning For Companies And Bloggers

SocMed Sean

NOTE: I originally wrote and published this article back in November of 2011 and it has generated a lot of interest over the years. Whether you work for a Fortune 100 company or a blogger who relies on revenue from your content to supplement your income, it’s important to think about what goes into your social media headcount.

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FACE: 4 Traits To Look For When Hiring Your Social Media Community Manager

SocMed Sean

Having worked in online community management for the last 15 years, I have had the privilege of putting together some amazing teams. The roles on a digital community team varied, ranging from digital strategists, to graphic designers…and everything in-between. Community management is not easy. is for Attention to Detail.

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Airbnb Social Media Strategy: Sharing Stories, Building Community

Keyhole.co

By blending collaborative consumption with experiential tourism and replacing impersonal hotel stays with a sense of community. million listings and a community of reliable hosts around the world ready to welcome guests with open arms. The company also recorded a whopping $2.2 But today, Airbnb boasts 7.7 or “Belong Anywhere.”

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How Companies Like Bored Panda, REI, and Vox Are Growing Their Organic Reach on Social Media

Buffer Social

That means for every 100 fans of a Page, an organic post will reach, on average, only five or fewer people 1 These data are from a research by Social@Ogilvy. Is it the end of organic reach on social media? Yes, the (average) organic reach on social media has been falling over the years. I don’t think so.

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Content Marketing and Social Media: 25 Insights and Stats from Three Research Reports

Webbiquity SMM

Nearly three-quarters of companies plan to maintain or grow their content marketing teams over the next year. Nearly three-quarters (72.6%) of companies plan to maintain or grow the size of their content marketing teams in the coming year. Affiliate sales support independent publishing. Budgets are growing.

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A digital media framework for smart marketing communications

Sherrilynne Starkie

Owned Media is self-published content. Today Owned Media includes digital content, and the central hub is usually the company website. No matter the communications challenge–marketing, advocacy, community relations, employee engagement–the best solutions have pieces from all four quarters of the digital media landscape.

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