Wed.Sep 26, 2018

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LinkedIn Officially Launches its New 'Talent Insights' Recruitment Data Platform

Social Media Today

LinkedIn is officially launching its new 'Talent Insights' platform, which enables recruiters to tap into LinkedIn's unmatched professional dataset to make more informed, strategic decisions.

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Hootsuite Inbox: What's Really Going On?

The Social Media Hat

Hootsuite recently removed Twitter Direct Messages from all streams. How can Hootsuite users monitor DMs, and how much is it going to cost? Is there an alternative?

HootSuite 167
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The Ultimate Guide to Creating and Marketing Infographics [Infographic]

Social Media Today

Infographics can be a great compliment within your broader digital content efforts. This infographic outlines the how and why of infographic creation and distribution.

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Power of Fun: Ignite Brand Awareness and Grow Your Business with the FUN Factor

Pam Moore

Did you know that brands that inspire a higher emotional intensity receive three times as much word of mouth as less emotionally connected brands? Given that the average attention span of humans is approximately eight seconds and that it takes 6-7 brand touches for someone to remember your brand, you better find a way to make your brand memorable. Yes, you can spend the next year mastering Facebook advertising, Instagram stories and live video.

Brands 141
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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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How Creative and Innovative Social Campaigns Can Help Maximize Performance

Social Media Today

In this post, social media expert Julio Viskovich looks at how brands can use the creative and social elements of social media to boost campaign performance.

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Why Do We Underestimate The Role Of Women In Terrorist Organizations?

Forbes Social Media

In 2015, we were shocked that women – and girls – were voluntarily placing themselves in harm’s way by joining terrorist organizations like Islamic State. When there, they served as recruiters and radicalizers, the mothers of the next generation of fighters, and facilitators of violence.

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Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon And Facebook Own Huge Market Shares = Technology Oligarchy

Forbes Social Media

The largest companies in the world are technology companies and the largest technology companies own huge market shares in their spaces. In fact, their market shares are growing. All this spells technology oligarchy. Good or bad?

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The Science Behind Effective LinkedIn Posts

Social Media Today

In a new Social Business Engine podcast, Bernie Borges speaks with Scott Ayres, Content Scientist for Agorapulse.

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Facebook Stories Hits 300 Million Users and Rolls Out Ads Globally

Buffer Social

Today, Facebook has announced that it’s rolling out Facebook Stories Ads to advertisers globally. More than 300 million people use Facebook Stories and Messenger Stories every day. Since Snapchat debuted the Stories format back in 2013, it has taken over the social media landscape. Facebook first introduced the format to one of its properties in 2016 with the launch of Instagram Stories and has since launched similar updates across Whatsapp, Messenger and Facebook itself.

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7 Cringeworthy Social Media Fails from 2018

Social Media Today

What's been the biggest social media fail by a brand in 2018? Here are some of the top contenders.

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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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How we’re redoubling our customer experience efforts in a time of constant change

Sprout Social

One of the most powerful aspects of social media is the way it’s rapidly evolved to become part of the fabric of both society and commerce. And no time has seen more change than the past six months. Between GDPR, social’s growing role in global politics and the importance of privacy, social networks have experienced significant and fundamental change.

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Twitter Puts Out the Call For User Input into Policy - But is That the Right Move?

Social Media Today

Twitter is calling on users for feedback with its policy decisions - but is that really an effective, or ultimately, beneficial approach?

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5 Ways Brands Can Use Emojis on Social Media

Likeable

We’re all emoji experts when it comes to texting, but using emojis on your brand’s social channels is a totally different game. While we tend to put most of our energy toward the words in our captions, these little icons can make your post copy pop in the feed when used creatively and sparingly. On Instagram specifically, research shows that posts with emojis have higher interaction rates.

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Power of Fun: Ignite Brand Awareness and Grow Your Business with the FUN Factor

Pam Moore

Did you know that brands that inspire a higher emotional intensity receive three times as much word of mouth as less emotionally connected brands? Given that the average attention span of humans is approximately eight seconds and that it takes 6-7 brand touches for someone to remember your brand, you better find a way to make your brand memorable. Yes, you can spend the next year mastering Facebook advertising, Instagram stories and live video.

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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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A Medicane Threatens Greece - What Is This Weather Phenomenon?

Forbes Social Media

A Medicane threatens parts of Greece this weekend. Is it correct to call these storms "Mediterranean hurricanes?

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Top 6 Ways to Use Agorapulse’s Inbox Assistant to Streamline Your Marketing

agora pulse

One social media account is a lot to keep up with. Most businesses are tackling anywhere from two to five, and social media managers are tackling many, many more. If you’ve ever felt like you’re drowning in direct messages, comments and (of course) complaints, I can promise you that you’re not alone. We’ve all been there. That terrible feels-like-you’ll-never-catch-up feeling is exactly why social media management software was created.

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How Alibaba, Tencent And Grab Have Rewired Commerce In The East

Forbes Social Media

Asia Pacific is now emerging as the mobile internet hub of the world. Mobile has enabled consumers in Asia Pacific to leapfrog other regions in many facets of life; commerce is but one example.

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Public Relations Vs Media Relations

WebInKnow

In todays world of real-time communications, there are tons of channels that organizations can use to reach their audience directly with valuable online content -- videos, podcasts, ebooks, white papers, photos, infographics, and much more -- and then have that information shared in social networks. Yet many organizations are still acting as if the only way to reach an audience is to use the media as a mouthpiece.

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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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If There Was Ever A Nobel Award For Tech -- WhatsApp Cofounder, Brian Acton Ought Put His Name To It

Forbes Social Media

Brian Acton blows the lid on Zuckerberg’s duplicity and Sandberg’s greed and seeks to make amends to WhatsApp users concerned with privacy through his new venture, Signal. His story raises difficult questions as to what burdens on billionaires particularly towards charitable giving.

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Public Relations Vs Media Relations

WebInKnow

In todays world of real-time communications, there are tons of channels that organizations can use to reach their audience directly with valuable online content -- videos, podcasts, ebooks, white papers, photos, infographics, and much more -- and then have that information shared in social networks. Yet many organizations are still acting as if the only way to reach an audience is to use the media as a mouthpiece.

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Chronicles Of A 50+ Entrepreneur: A Coaching Session and Going Bigger

Forbes Social Media

The nice thing that has emerged from a year of regular meetings with Roy is that we’ve grown to like each other as people and so the business conversations are more honest.

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How do Social Platforms Protect Your Information? [Infographic]

Social Media Today

With so much talk about the security of your data on social networks, this infographic looks at the extended data security options offered by the major platforms.

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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.

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Cultural Readings Of Digital Currency

Forbes Social Media

What is it about digital currencies that has made it so popular amongst investors in developing countries and millennials the world around?

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