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3 ways to optimize your visual strategy with Instagram and Pinterest

Sprout Social

If a strong visual strategy is key to your business, it’s likely that you’ve spent countless hours – or dollars – designing perfect image after perfect image. It’s no secret that creating high-quality content is time-consuming and costly, which means that the pressure is constantly on to maximize engagement, optimize distribution and deliver ROI with each image you share.

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5 Social Media Strategies That Will Grow Your Business In 2019

Forbes Social Media

What does your social media strategy for 2019 look like? Discover five social media strategies that can help you boost your results in 2019.

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#242: Choosing the Perfect Topic for Your First Digital Course (Perfect…AND Profitable!)

Amy Porterfield

Looking for a little inspiration when it comes to the topic of your digital course? If you’re like most course creators just starting out (who I hear from all of the time), you’ve had an idea for your course for some time, but you aren’t sure how to move forward, or if your core market […]. The post #242: Choosing the Perfect Topic for Your First Digital Course (Perfect…AND Profitable!

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December Social Media Lab Wrapup

agora pulse

Things have been a bit slower in the Lab the past few months as we tweak some tests, gear up for 2019 and enjoy the holidays. But we have posted 3 very important and highly shareable experiments since last we wrote an update. Put your thinking caps on because we’ve got some good ones for you today. Re-Test: Does Facebook Punish 3rd Party Scheduling Apps?

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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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From Cyberbullying To Digital Addiction: How Social Media Is Affecting Teens

Forbes Social Media

Social media plays a key role in the lives of teenagers today. It is how they communicate with friends, get their information and how they entertain themselves. However, being online 24/7 has raised some questions about what kind of impact it is having on their mental health and social growth.

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Why Pop Up Books Are the Original VR

Cortex

If we take a closer look at technology, we see that there are possibilities of the world growing into a mostly automated world. A sometimes-forgotten technology and art is pop-up books. This forgotten credit is a shame, especially when considering that pop-up books the original Virtual Reality. Pop-up books have been around for thousands of years, but it was only a matter of time before virtual reality storytelling evolved the technology of pop-ups into an incredible story for the world.

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I Downloaded All 840MB of My Facebook Data. It Was Boring, Baffling, and a Bit Scary.

WebInKnow

If an online product is free, then you are what’s for sale.

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Puma Set to Dethrone Nike in NBA & Culture Push

Forbes Social Media

NBA superstars have started trading in the traditional shoe endorsement paths led by Nike, Adidas and Under Armour, for Puma’s brave new alternative approach. Since the majority of basketball sneakers are worn off the court, cultural swag has become more important than shoe performance.

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Have Blog, Will Travel: Tips For Blogging On the Road

ProBlogger

The post Have Blog, Will Travel: Tips For Blogging On the Road appeared first on ProBlogger. This post is based on Episode 243 of the ProBlogger podcast. If you’re travelling over the holidays – to see family and friends, or just for a vacation – then you might be worried about you’ll keep up with your blogging. (This can also be a challenge if you travel regularly.).

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Businesses Stood Up Against The NRA Last Year. Here's Why That's A Little Scary.

Forbes Social Media

Igor Volsky thought the gun control movement needed a left flank. So he built one.

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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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The Complete Marketer's Guide to Digital Storytelling

Cortex

It’s a Storytellers’ World, and Were Just Living in It: Why Digital Storytelling is Functional Storytelling.

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Highlights of 2018: This Year's Most Popular Stories on Forbes Social

Forbes Social Media

Take a look back at 2018 via the Forbes social media audience's favorites stories.

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Top 20 Christmas posts by brands to inspire you

Unmetric

Marketers need to keep producing new and fresh content ideas for all their social media posts at a cadence never seen before. With Christmas around the corner, time is short to come up with new content ideas to engage your audience this holiday season. To help inspire you to create content that will stand out among the other Christmas related content by brands, we have compiled a list of the top 20 Christmas Posts by brands that were highly engaging in 2017.

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'Valley Of The Boom' Shares History Of Silicon Valley In A Unique Way

Forbes Social Media

The new National Geographic series, Valley of the Boom, uses the docudrama format of the Mars series--combining documentary with scripted drama--to share the history of Silicon Valley during the boom of the 90s in a unique and entertaining way.

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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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If It’s December, It’s Strategic Planning Time

Waxing UnLyrical

Guest Post by Ken Jacobs. If it’s December, and you’re a PR or Social PR agency owner or leader, a communications department or group head, or a communications consultant or soloist, you’re probably knee-deep in strategic planning. (And if you’re not, you should be!). If you’re on the agency side, this should include determining income growth goals, business development targets and setting profitability projections.

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A Valuable LinkedIn Feature That Will Help You Grow Your Network

Forbes Social Media

Be an innovative and efficient networker by using these LinkedIn features.

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Here's Why Book-Loving Communities Will Succeed Online In 2019

Forbes Social Media

In 2019, the closed social media community will succeed, thanks to its focus on slowing down, staying private, and going deep. Book lovers are a great example of the type of niche that's already thriving in more intentional communities, and they'll see even more success in the new year.

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American Campaigning Is Already Copying Russian Influence Tactics 'For Research'

Forbes Social Media

As US political campaigning launches Russian-style misinformation “for research” and as Facebook presses forward with an academic research initiative that has explicitly not ruled out supporting such deception campaigns in live elections, what will the future hold for democracy?

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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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Debunking 3 Myths Following The 'Rare' Seattle Tornado

Forbes Social Media

This week's tornado near Seattle is a good opportunity to clear up 3 myths.

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Men Dominate Facebook With 35% More Active Accounts Than Women

Forbes Social Media

Do we assume that women are by nature more vocal, expressive and willing to share and use social more than men?

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Facebook Is Not An Extension Of The Self, But The Void In Which We Lose Ourselves

Forbes Social Media

Once again, a betrayal from Facebook sparks an outrage. Yet, will anything change? Can anything change?

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Tumblocalypse: Where Tumblr And Its Users Are Headed After The Ban

Forbes Social Media

Tumblr's NSFW ban comes at great cost to the community and little gain to the company's long-term prospects.

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How to Be Social: A Social Media Manifesto

Learn the 10 worst social media marketing mistakes and how to avoid them.