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4 Emerging Social Media Trends to Watch in 2020

Social Media Strategies Summit

Take a holistic look now at the 2020 social media trends emerging now and how they will affect the platforms you use, how you use them, and your business as a whole. Below are four trends we’re watching closely this year – plus the best platforms to address these changes. #1 1 Ephemeral content disrupts social video.

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Link Love Monthly: Best of September 2010

SocialFish

The Attention Stream: Keeping Your Market Engaged in a Constant Stream of Content… (ClickZ). Offline-to-Online-to-Offline: Lessons Learned in Building a Custom Community Platform (Frogloop). Technology is just a tool… but are you skilled with it? Scott Brinker). How To Be The Jack Bauer Of Your Company (Adam Singer).

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What is a brand community and how to build a successful one

Sprout Social

People in your brand community are emotionally invested; they will buy from your company, digest your content, tell their friends and family about your company, and more. But a brand community is not the same as brand awareness. Why should you build a brand community? Choose a community platform.

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Activation, Comfort, and Other Secrets of Online Community Management

Convince & Convert

If they feel as if they have a say in the brands and that they’re a living, breathing part of the community, they’ll participate more , and they’ll advocate for you. Do you think that kind of work is the enemy of true community, or can they coexist? You can’t schedule community. Consider that stolen.

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Nuggets from Social Media workshops as of late. : Community Group Therapy

Buzz Marketing for Technology

4) None of the following are community platforms: Wikis, Blogs or Forums. These are not platforms…these are implementations on top of platforms. Ok, ok, maybe they do in terms of commercial viability, but inherently there is motion from channel to channel based on content, time, cost, benefits, etc.

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3 Ways Facebook is Killing Your Website | Social Media Marketing.

Convince & Convert

Make your content at least semi-friendly for search engines. Now, the move is toward “social objects&# which are invariably smaller, more directed pieces of content. Build a website. Make it useful and at least moderately pleasing to the eye. Keep it updated. A digital marketing success story.

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RIP 3 Ways Facebook is Killing Your Website

Convince & Convert

Make your content at least semi-friendly for search engines. Now, the move is toward “social objects&# which are invariably smaller, more directed pieces of content. Build a website. Make it useful and at least moderately pleasing to the eye. Keep it updated. A digital marketing success story.

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