Tue.Apr 02, 2019

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Give a #Caregiver a break – #WhenLifeHitstheFan

Janet Fouts

As a caregiver and an entrepreneur, I know only too well how overloaded we can be. The most common refrain I hear from caregivers is “I don’t have time to take care of myself” The thing is, if we don’t take time to care for ourselves, everyone suffers, including those we care for. When I wrote “when Life Hits the Fan” it was the beginning of a journey to help caregivers learn how to use mindfulness to take better care of themselves and others too.

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SMT's State of Marketing Automation Survey 2019 - Part 1: Current State of Automation

Social Media Today

Automation, whether you like it or not, is coming to more and more elements of our work lives. In our first SMT survey of 2019, we sought opinions on how automation is being used, and will be used in future.

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How to Easily Add Subtitles to Your Facebook Video Posts

agora pulse

You might be tempted to post your Facebook video without subtitles at all. After all, adding subtitles is an extra step. However, your video will get far more views when it has accurate and readable subtitles. Subtitles and captions in Facebook video posts can make a big difference because: Viewers can get an idea of what the video is about when they scroll through Facebook with their audio off.

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Facebook May Add a Separate News Tab to Promote 'High Quality, Trusted' Journalism

Social Media Today

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is looking at new ways to ensure accurate information is shared on Facebook, which may include a new, separate news tab.

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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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Employee Benefits Programs Missing the Mark?

Janet Fouts

In a recent report from the Harvard Business School ( The Caring Company ) less than 25% of employers say that being a caregiver impacts the performance of employees. Wow, that’s simply obtuse when over 80% of employees surveyed said that caregiving had impacted their performance. 20% of those interviewed stated that being a caregiver hurt their careers.

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Ready, Set, Activate Your Digital Audience to Fall in Love with Your Brand

Social Media Today

Want to maximize your social media marketing results? You need to 'activate' your audience - take a listen to these tips.

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5 Tips for Managing a Social Media Crisis

Social Media Today

Social media mishaps can, and will, happen. Make sure you're prepared for the worst with these tips.

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Ignite Social Media Selected as Shorty Awards Finalist in Two Categories

Ignite Social Media

We are excited to announce that we have been selected as Shorty Awards Finalist in two categories: Retail & E-Commerce and Large Media Buying Strategy. Shorty Awards Finalist for Retail & E-Commerce. We partnered with our client, Altar’d State, for the Retail & E-commerce category. Altar’d State is a women’s fashion retailer looking to build a strategic and effective presence on digital and traditional networks, centered around the target consumer and their shopping habi

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Google Adds New Gmail Tools to Mark the App's 15th Birthday

Social Media Today

Google is rolling out some new tools for Gmail to mark the 15th birthday of its email platform.

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The next era of social is about trust: Sprout Sessions Live kicks off with a real bang

Sprout Social

If you’re familiar with #SproutSessions, you know it’s a free digital conference where we host a variety of marketing and social talent from your favorite brands to talk shop. We recently took that format and made it live as a half-day, traveling event with speakers and panels that explore what it means to foster real connection on social. Yep, we’re pretty excited about it.

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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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What brands and BTS can teach you about partnerships and social media marketing

Unmetric

At Unmetric, we do something called the #UnmetricBrandStars on Twitter and Facebook. Each day, we trawl through brand posts and feature the most engaging post by a brand on our social handles. We believe it will provide other brands inspiration for their own creative briefs and campaigns. While these posts are well-received on Facebook , only a small number of people engage on Twitter.

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55% of Drivers Admit to Checking Social Media While Driving

The Realtime Report

55% of Drivers Admit to Checking Social Media While Driving . Ahead of Distracted Driving Awareness Month, which kicks off April 1, DriversEd.com, the leading online driving school, today released its 2019 Distracted Driving and Social Media Report. The study, which was conducted by DriversEd.com as a follow-up to its more broadly focused 2018 Distracted Driving in America Report , hones in on behind-the-wheel social media checking, video watching and video recording, providing insight on the

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5 Ways Retail Brands Can Win on Social in 2019

Likeable

Last month, Likeable held a one-day client summit focused on digital innovation to share best practices and insights around how retail brands should be preparing for the future of social media. Take a look at our top five takeaways for how brands can rethink their content strategies. 1. Fear is getting in the way of great content. No matter how much social media evolves, one thing will always be true: great content wins.

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How Meteorologists Compare To Other Professions That Predict The Future

Forbes Social Media

How meteorologists compare to other professions that predict the future. It's far better than you think.

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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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RIP Google Plus: The Highs and Lows of the Once Popular Social Network

WebInKnow

Google Plus launched in mid-2011 to great excitement. Initially by invitation only, a clever ploy to get early adopters to sign on, Google Plus became the fastest growing social network in history when it opened to everybody in September 2011. Now, less than a decade after launch, the service is shutting down today. We can learn two lessons from this saga: 1) “Me too” social networks never succeed and 2) never tie the majority of your personal brand to a social network.

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8 Quotes That Define The State Of Social Media Today

Forbes Social Media

It's all about remembering the "social" in social media; connecting with customers is a must.

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How to use Frase.io to research and automatically summarize content (AI Tool)

Razor Social

In this article, I’ll review Frase and show how it can be a very useful tool to automatically parse through interesting content online and produce relevant summaries for newsletters, learning, and more. We are in a state of content overload. When we search Google it typically returns hundreds of thousands or millions of matches for any query. That’s great.

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This Overlooked Marketing Strategy Can Help You Succeed in 2019

Pixlee

Crafting a marketing strategy that is both flexible enough to allow for agile shifts within the organization, while retaining rigidity that the whole team can align with isn’t an easy task. Rather than setting forth archaic tenets to build your marketing strategy, a new school of thought is both popular and successful for brands: craft your marketing strategy from community-driven marketing.

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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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Google Starts Deleting Social Network Accounts After 52 Million Users Thought Exposed To Privacy Bug

Forbes Social Media

Google+ is now officially dead, it is no more, it has ceased to be. What happened to cause Google to kill its own social network and, with content being deleted as from today, is it too late for users to save their precious posts?

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How to Perfect Your LinkedIn Profile and Generate Sales Leads [Infographic]

Social Media Today

Looking to get more out of LinkedIn for your business? Check out these tips to help optimize your LinkedIn presence.

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Global Ad Blocking Behavior 2019 [Infographic]

Social Media Today

Ad blocking is on the rise - here's an update on the latest ad blocker usage rates and stats.

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