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How to Develop a Social Media Policy for Employees in 2020 and Beyond

Oktopost

A decade ago Zappo’s had a social media policy for employees that was more or less the industry standard: “Be real and use your best judgment”. Ten years ago this policy might have been enough. But with the metaphorical and literal explosion of social media, defining “best judgment” and “be real” has gotten a lot less straightforward. The need for an effective social media policy for employees, however, has become more pressing than ever.

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Universities: How to Use Social Media as Well as Students Do

agora pulse

College students are savvy about social media, so shouldn’t it also be the other way around, too? Here’s how universities can use social. With more colleges and universities moving to online or technology-assisted learning, universities must learn how to best use social media. After all, social media is for much more than a post here or there.

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6 Cybersecurity Tips for Safer Remote Working

The Realtime Report

6 Cybersecurity Tips for. Safer Remote Working. Working remotely is suddenly the new normal for a lot of people around the world as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Maybe working from home is new to you, or perhaps you’ve already had some experience with it. Whether you’re switching to a new remote working setup due to COVID-19 or were working remotely anyway when the outbreak began, unfortunately, cyber threats haven’t been closed down.

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LinkedIn Offers Free Courses in Diversity and Inclusion to Improve Community Understanding

Social Media Today

LinkedIn will make a range of LinkedIn Learning courses on diversity and inclusion available for free in an effort to help more people understand how to best address these key issues.

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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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Social Media App Parler Blasts Google Amidst #Twexit Campaign

Forbes Social Media

Hot on the heels of the Google Chrome Privacy Lawsuit, Parler CEO John Matze called for the tech giant and search engine creator to reveal the facts of its spying allegations.

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Instagram Engagement Rates: What?s Good (or Not) and Why They Matter

agora pulse

You’ve tracked the Instagram engagement rates but need to put them in terms that your clients understand. Are these numbers good? Bad? How do they compare to the competition? Read on to find out what you need to know about Instagram engagement rates. If you manage brands on Instagram, it’s essential to monitor engagement metrics. Naturally, as a social media manager, you want to make sure your efforts help meet stakeholders’ social media goals.

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Facebook's Stance on Political Ads Once Again Highlights a Common Flaw in its Policy Approach

Social Media Today

Facebook's decision not to fact-check or censor content from political leaders makes some sense, but it also underlines a common flaw in Facebook's policy approach.

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(Proven Tricks): How to move WhatsApp To SD Card From Internal Storage

BeingOptimist

During Quarantine moving out of space is not good at all under any circumstances. One of the most disgusting moments is when a notification pops up on your phone saying “storage space running low”. It is because we download too many apps on our phone which eat up the storage space. WhatsApp is one such app that we all use. With WhatsApp in our phones, we receive so many messages, pictures, videos, audios, and other files as well.

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How to Be a Courageous Leader in the Post-Pandemic Era

The Realtime Report

How to Be a Courageous Leader in the Post-Pandemic Era. By. Merilee A. Kern, MBA. 3 Must-Have Traits For Courageous Leadership In Today’s Workplace. While some contest, or outright refute , whether or not former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill famously said “success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts,” the power of that statement looms large irrespective of origin.

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The Danger Of Medical Misinformation On Social Media

Forbes Social Media

It is already a problem that people rely on the Internet in general for such medical research – and in no way should going online replace going to a doctor for serious problems.

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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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Instagram Tests Messenger Integration, New 'Plans' Sticker for Scheduling Online Meet-Ups

Social Media Today

Facebook's messaging integration has taken another step, with a new test of an Instagram/Messenger function, while Instagram's also testing a new sticker type.

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7 best Google Alerts alternatives

Awario

If you care about your online presence, you need a Google Alert alternative. This is a list of such tools.

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Symmetry Financial Group Review: Everything You Need to Know

The Realtime Report

Symmetry Financial Group Review: Everything You Need to Know. Symmetry Financial Group is an industry-leading insurance provider based in Swannanoa, North Carolina. The company focuses on selling life insurance, as well as a number of other essential products, to people working hard to protect their families. Symmetry Financial Group was founded in 2009 by Brandon Ellison, Brian Pope, and Casey Watkins, all of whom had years of experience in the life insurance industry before deciding to join fo

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39 Years Ago Today

Ari Herzog

Today is June 5, 2020. On June 5, 1981, the CDC published a report that indicated five men in Los Angeles contracted a “cellular-immune dysfunction related to a common exposure” and a “disease acquired through sexual contact.” Those five men represent the first cases of AIDS, or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, a term established in 1982.

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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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Instagram Asks #BlackoutTuesday Participants to Avoid Using #BlackLivesMatter Hashtag

Social Media Today

With thousands of people taking part in #BlackoutTuesday, Instagram has called for people to use the correct hashtags to avoid drowning out important updates and info.

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57 Buffalo Police Resign From Riot Unit In Protest Of Officers' Suspension

Forbes Social Media

Two officers were suspended without after they were filmed pushing a 75-year-old protester to the ground.

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A message to our community: an open letter from Black@Sprout

Sprout Social

A note from the authors: Our Black@Sprout Business Resource group wrote this open letter and shared it with our team last week. We’re sharing it with you today because we believe this message is important for everyone to hear. One of our values as a company is championing diversity, equity and inclusion. This commitment means we work to build a diverse team, foster an inclusive culture and invest in equity—defined as system-level change—across our organization.

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Coronavirus Love

Ari Herzog

This might sound weird but I miss the coronavirus. It was the talk of the town. It united us. The virus brought the whole world into the same exhale-inhale breath of possible death. From our self-isolated spaces, we protected ourselves with a shared goal of protecting each other. The coronavirus inspired me to resurrect this 13-year-old blog which hadn’t seen words written in many months. “As we adjust to life with the coronavirus in this new normal, I want to use my blog as a creati

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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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How Brands Can Benefit from Social Media Groups (#SMTLive Recap)

Social Media Today

During one of our most recent Twitter chats, we spoke with marketers about the benefits of and best strategies for managing social media groups. Here's what our friends on #SMTLive had to say.

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The History Of Pride Month And What It Can Teach Us About Moving Forward Today

Forbes Social Media

We have been here before. Throughout history, periods of upheaval moments have often given birth to genuine progress and change. Pride Month commemorates one such time, where riots and protests created awareness of deep-seated problems and energized people to create substantial change.

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How to Convert Video from YouTube to Instagram

VEED Grow

Taking a video and converting it from YouTube to Instagram doesn’t have to be a complex task. Whether you want to share a TikTok compilation YouTube video as an IGTV video or how to post a YouTube video to an Instagram story - today we’re teaching you how. Learn how to download, resize, customize, and convert video from YouTube to Instagram with this quick 3-minute read.

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America

Ari Herzog

I am curating a YouTube playlist of songs and poems that evoke the history, culture, and resilience of this country. It’s a selective list and I want it to be devoid of politicization. I want to include pieces that make me laugh, cry, or think. The list currently has five videos. It will grow over time. “Somewhere in America” is in the list.

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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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5 Attributes of Successful Digital Marketers

Social Media Today

Brands are investing heavily in digital marketing, which makes it a great time to be a digital marketer – especially if you have the right combination of skills to succeed.

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Anonymous Hacked Our Attention (Again)

Forbes Social Media

As is often the case with Anonymous, what got hacked this week was our minds. (or at least our attention spans) more than IT systems operated by the Minneapolis Police Department.

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A guide to Brand Awareness: how to measure & increase it

Awario

Brand awareness is a term that’s hard to ignore for newcomer marketers and entrepreneurs. It seems to be everywhere, yet, it’s not that easy to understand and even harder to measure. In this article, we’ll break down the metrics behind brand awareness, and look at how to measure and increase them.

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BONUS: How To Do A Step-by-Step Mid-Year Goal Audit

Amy Porterfield

I think we can all agree that the first six months of 2020 have been crazy, uncertain, and have pushed us in ways that we never expected — especially as entrepreneurs. Nonetheless, six months have passed and we’re now halfway through the year. So from one friend to another, how are your 2020 goals coming […]. The post BONUS: How To Do A Step-by-Step Mid-Year Goal Audit appeared first on Amy Porterfield | Online Marketing Expert.

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8 Stupid Simple Social Media Tricks to Boost SEO

Discover just how easy it is to boost SEO with social media.

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Facebook Employees Stop Work in Protest Against the Company's Inaction on Inflammatory Comments

Social Media Today

As protest action continues in various cities across the US, Facebook employees have called for the company to take a harder line against inflammatory comments.

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Zynn, A New TikTok Copycat, Pays Users—But It’s Origins Are More Interesting

Forbes Social Media

Coming after TikTok's success, a new app called Zynn is paying users to download and watch its videos. It's already atop of the App Store. But Zynn's intentions and origins are a bit more troublesome than the fact that it's just an exact clone of TikTok.

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LinkedIn Prospecting: Best Practices for Fast Results

Sociallyin Insider Blog

Social selling on LinkedIn has been a major focus for me and my team in recent months. We’ve been diving in deep and most recently hosted a webinar all about Linkedin social selling, as well as LinkedIn prospecting.

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Sirens

Ari Herzog

I hear sirens in the distance. I am sitting at my kitchen table, the window is open, and police cruisers are going somewhere. It’s probably a car accident, I think to myself. Maybe it’s related to the pandemic. Maybe someone walked too close to someone else without wearing a mask, words were exchanged, and a fight developed. What else could happen at 9:00 at night?

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Zoom Says Advanced End-to-End Encryption Won't be Available to Free Users

Social Media Today

Video conferencing app Zoom, which has added a range of advanced security features, says that it won't make all of its new options available to free users.

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