Webbiquity SMM
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
Getting banned on social media in 2021, at least temporarily, has unfortunately become a regular thing for many users. It can happen on any social media network today, even the Pinterest channel. And how will I do business without my social media network?
Ignite Social Media
AUGUST 23, 2021
Social media networks have made it easy for businesses to market their products and reach a large audience all over the world. However, there are certain things you cannot advertise on social networks. Subscribe to Social You Should Know.
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Buffer Social
AUGUST 13, 2017
This post was originally published in 2016 and has been updated with the latest ideal image sizes for the various social media platforms, as of August 2017. You’ve got all the great tools to create engaging images for social media. There’s so much to consider in creating great images for social media —for me, the size and shape tend to get locked in before I even realize what’s happened. Ideal image sizes for social media.
Webbiquity SMM
APRIL 12, 2022
A social media crisis is like a wildfire: one mistake can quickly get out of control. When your business commits a critical error on social media, you risk losing not just followers, but also current and prospective future customers. Create a social media policy.
Hootsuite
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
Every business should have social media guidelines. That’s true even if your company is not on social media (psst: here’s how to get started ). Your employees are on social media. Social media guidelines lay down some rules.
Dave Fleet
JULY 26, 2010
Over time I’ve found myself doing more and more foundational work for organizations looking to dip their toes into social media. One of the key elements of this work, in my opinion, is creating a social media policy that fits well with the organization’s goals, culture and risk tolerance. As it happens, lots of organizations publish their social media guidelines online, ready for you to review and use yourself. Social Media Policies and Guidelines.
Pam Moore
APRIL 14, 2017
One very important factor for success on any social network including Facebook, is visual marketing. The only guarantee we have in the social media world of today is change! Download the Facebook Social Image Size Reference Guide and Adobe Photoshop Templates Now! . Social Media Image Sizing Reference Guide and Templates (includes all top social networks – Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube & more!).
The Way of the Web
FEBRUARY 9, 2014
Social Media policies and guidelines are vital for every business and employee. Not only are they helpful in ensuring that everyone in a company understands what is expected of them, they can also be a way to empower your employees to feel comfortable and confident in engaging with customers or clients via social media. Even with a small business, it’s good practice to instill the right guidelines and policies early on.
Ignite Social Media
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
With organic reach on the decline, running a quality social media sweepstakes is one of the best ways to amplify and boost your brand. Steps for Planning a Social Media Sweepstakes . Channel Guidelines for Social Media Sweepstakes .
Sherrilynne Starkie
FEBRUARY 17, 2013
February 17: this week in social media. 17 essential social media guidelines to follow. Headline Social Media Facebook LinkedIn Ottawa Social network TwitterView more lists from Sherrilynne Starkie. Related posts: Five Ottawa Facebook pages worth checking out. Ottawa’s Twitter top 20 for 2012. October’s most popular posts. Click here to start to receive my newsletter. PLEASE LIKE MY FACEBOOK PAGE. Related articles.
Forbes Social Media
JANUARY 8, 2021
Apple has warned alt-right social networking app Parler that unless it moderates and removes content that encourages illegal activity, it could be banned from the App Store.
Laurel Papworth
APRIL 8, 2014
Five years ago I wrote a list of social media guidelines for the Enterprise which has been read 100,000+ times. And even today creating social media guidelines for staff are a challenge. I often ask my students to get into teams and come up with some guidelines. Public, Acknowledged Guidelines. Secret InHouse Guidelines. For your education and amusement … [link] Telstra guidelines complete with music circa last decade?
Mindjumpers
DECEMBER 9, 2015
Our ever-growing global network of Local Social Media Managers around the world helps us ensure contextually relevant content through social listening, content production and response management. It’s a network of very talented people who possess great knowledge of social media in their local context – one of them being Nishanth Krish from India who shares his insights into the social media trends, prospects and challenges in India right now.
Socialized
OCTOBER 19, 2009
Along with Patrick Schwerdtfeger, author of Webify Your Business , I’ll be participating in a free webinar on Practical Social Networking this Wednesday, October 21, 5:00 p.m. During the second half-hour of the webcast, we’ll talk about my book, SocialCorp , the importance of balancing social media risk and reward, and some of the trends that will affect corporate social media practitioners.
Pam Moore
FEBRUARY 21, 2017
Are you tired of your Facebook cover image, Facebook advertising images, Facebook Group image, Twitter cover images, Pinterest board covers and LinkedIn images not looking as beautiful as the cool social media kids (aka visual savvy social marketers)? We have created the Ultimate Social Media Image Sizing Reference Guide that you can download right now , right here ! With social media, the only guarantee we have is change.
Ignite Social Media
JULY 19, 2017
If you work on influencer marketing you should know all about branded content disclaimers on social media and the FTC. If you don’t, here’s a brief overview of their guidelines. The FTC endorsement guidelines were put into effect in order to protect consumers from deceptive marketing (false advertising) and have been adjusted over time as they’ve seen the need. Due to this rise in FTC involvement, some of the social networks have adjusted their platforms.
Buzz Marketing for Technology
JUNE 27, 2008
IBM Social Computing Guidelines. Blogs, wikis, social networks, virtual worlds and social media. In the spring of 2005, IBMers used a wiki to create a set of guidelines for all IBMers who wanted to blog. These guidelines aimed to provide helpful, practical advice—and also to protect both IBM bloggers and IBM itself, as the company sought to embrace the blogosphere. Since then, many new forms of social media have emerged.
Laurel Papworth
MARCH 5, 2012
Facebook Page Competition Guidelines T&Cs. These Promotion Guidelines, along with the Statement of Rights and Responsibilities , the Ad Guidelines , the Platform Policies and all other applicable Facebook policies, govern your communication about or administration of any contest , competition, sweepstakes or other similar offering (each, a promotion) using Facebook. The rest are on the other guideline pages.
Mindjumpers
NOVEMBER 4, 2014
In December 2013 I started writing my master thesis and teamed up with Mindjumpers because I was curious about glocalization on social media. My thesis, with the title ‘Digital Glocalization – Strategic Communication on Social Media’, investigates how global brands communicate locally on social media and which challenges glocalization on social media causes. Which guidelines are relevant and significant for your brand?
Mindjumpers
APRIL 18, 2011
Tweet Many organizations are starting to get involved in social media. But do your employees know how to act in new media on behalf of your business? Do you have any guidelines to make them acquainted with a social media presence? If the answer is no, maybe it’s time to start looking at some rules of social media engagement. Make a plan and guidelines for your employees. Solis’ best practices for developing policies and guidelines.
Direct Marketing Observations
APRIL 19, 2010
How can you protect your children from social media? “I’m on top of it, I know what this social networking thing is all about&# , “My child doesn’t really use it&# , “Does it really matter? We are, and they are, consumers of media and creators of it. Create a network via Ning. Create hundreds of profiles on hundreds on networks. It goes viral in a social network and people get hurt.
Ignite Social Media
JANUARY 18, 2018
This saves you time in the long run and allows you to share quality content across your social channels that your audience can engage with. Planning social content in advance ensures you always have quality content to share with your audience on a consistent basis. A great way to do this is looking at past social media posts or interactions to see which events were most successful when talking about them on your channels. Prioritize Networks that make the most impact.
The Social Media Incubator
NOVEMBER 21, 2011
Do you have a social media policy in place for your business? A press release from Grant Thornton LLP finds that “executives of public and private companies see social media as a growing set of marketing tools, but have not yet developed the necessary compliance and risk policies and procedures.” ” Why have a policy for social media? What about the social media activity of the employees within your company?
Webbiquity SMM
SEPTEMBER 30, 2010
Why is having a social media policy in place so critical? Because virtually 100% of companies are now involved in social media—whether they acknowledge it or not. Even without any formal plan to use social media, every organization with more than a handful of employees (and many under that benchmark) is present in social media because people are talking about them. Essential Topics for an Organizational Social Media Policy.
Laurel Papworth
OCTOBER 8, 2011
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, VICTORIA: What does it mean when the people you elected to represent you, turn off comments in social channels? It’s saying that social spaces are broadcast spaces. Let’s look at the back ground to the Department of Justice Victoria social media policy video, turning off discussion on YouTube and then explore the comments disabled thingie further. The other 7 steps to social media engagement ).
Mindjumpers
JULY 10, 2012
Tweet The following post is part of the Mindjumpers Network series and written by our Community Manager, Sara Hansson. Mindjumpers Network is a global network of local country community managers enabling international companies to execute and maintain brand communities in a structured, quality assured and cost effective way across markets with the aim of creating effect and value. A central hub for aligned guidelines and structure. The State of Social Media in Norway.
Waxing UnLyrical
OCTOBER 13, 2011
If you are reading this blog, chances are you don’t need to be told about the merits of social media. Social media just changes the way these things happen … and how fast people are punished by the marketplace if they don’t do it effectively. So, while the goals are the same, for some – especially those who don’t use the tools – social media communications is still something flashy and new. It’s Just Social Media.
Mindjumpers
JULY 14, 2011
Tweet When taking the first step and starting out with social media, there are some basic things worth considering for creating the right foundation for your presence. Here, the different social media format options come into the picture, which are some of the first elements to take hold of during your social media planning. It’s quite simple, but I think it can be very helpful for businesses taking the social step.
Sprout Social
JUNE 25, 2019
Social media has become so ingrained in our daily lives that most social media icons are instantly recognizable. For marketers and business owners, this offers an excellent opportunity to implement social media icons into their marketing strategies. At the same time, there’s a lot that you should consider before you use these social media logos including the best practices and legal conditions. The benefits of using social media icons.
agora pulse
DECEMBER 27, 2019
Are you using your best manners on social media? Or do you need a little brushing up on your social media etiquette? And just like we sometimes need reminders about good etiquette at the dinner table, we may need reminders of the basic rules of etiquette in social media.
Social Media Marketing
APRIL 11, 2018
Some of the best link building techniques are: Article writing, Blog posting, Forum Posting, Social Networking sites, Social Media sites etc. If you own a website, then definitely you would be using the basic SEO techniques to drive traffic to your site. Sometimes, your SEO techniques may not favor your website and your site may step down from the search engine rankings. This indicates that something is missing on your site.
Ignite Social Media
JUNE 1, 2016
Social media has evolved over the years and in order to design a successful social media marketing strategy, you must consider the latest social media trends that are likely to have the biggest impacts. Another emerging trend that will become more prominent in 2016 is that Facebook will dominate the social landscape. So how do you incorporate live video streaming to your social strategy? Social Commerce Goes Viral.
Buzz Marketing for Technology
MARCH 16, 2009
Yet many companies limit the use of Social Media at work which I think is very short sighted. "Of Of those not allowed to use social media at work, 65 percent said their managers block access to sites like YouTube, Facebook and Flickr because they're afraid employee productivity will suffer." Blocking social media sites entirely may not be a good idea. Building and allowing personal brands to flourish is important to having a strong Social Brand.
Mindjumpers
JULY 12, 2012
Every day, you are faced with multiple considerations concerning your organization’s social media strategy. In order to ensure effective stakeholder communication and avoid any unfortunate situations, it is a good idea to create a social media policy for your employees. In the following, we are going to outline what exactly a social media policy is, what the benefits are from implementing one in your organization and which elements it can include.
Ignite Social Media
JUNE 15, 2016
Over the nearly 9 years I’ve been here at Ignite Social Media I have been fortunate enough to have hands on experience working with brands to develop an overarching social media strategy that meets their business and marketing objectives. On the heels of many of these experiences, I’ve written blog posts sharing tips or guidelines that could help other marketers approach this sometimes daunting process.
Mindjumpers
OCTOBER 14, 2014
With brands increasing their presence on social media regular crisis are to be expected. Lately ‘shitstorm’ has become a term often used, whenever a brand ends up in an online crisis that turns into an online attack, because of the social media’s ability to spread rapidly to unlimited amounts of users. Here’s how your company should act before, during and after a social shitstorm. ECIS2014 – New Views on Social Networks.
Unmetric
NOVEMBER 4, 2019
Now that social media is mainstream with every company, the demand for marketers with social media skills is higher than ever. The importance of having a dedicated person to monitor a company’s social media presence and derive insights for successful marketing practices is the need of the hour. Enter social media analysts. So what does a social media analyst do? What is the purpose of having a social media analyst?
Ignite Social Media
JUNE 6, 2016
Social media sweepstakes and contests have changed, a lot. New Social Platforms = New Opportunities. As new social platforms get introduced, it opens the door for opportunities and allows brands to bring new and exciting promotions to their fans as well as attract new ones. Each social network has their own set of terms which can be referenced in a few different ways: terms of use, terms of service or terms and conditions. Oh boy.
Laurel Papworth
APRIL 29, 2012
If you are a company, government department or organisation interested in social media training for your staff, this three day class held privately at your premises (or we can organise premises for you) suits those looking for a more indepth course. Those who do not yet have any social media profiles online may struggle as this course is fast paced. AdAge named in the Top 150 Media Bloggers, and she is on Google’s Plus Recommended List.
Hootsuite
SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
Getting shadowbanned is every social media manager’s worst nightmare. Sure, most social platforms deny the shadowban is really a thing at all. Bonus: Get a free social media strategy template to quickly and easily plan your own strategy.
Social Media Marketing
MARCH 22, 2018
Social Media today has an undeniable power of spreading information, growing the business and developing community. Both individuals and businesses in healthcare industry use social media to stay connected, communicate and sometimes market their products and services. The general public uses social media to research symptoms, local doctors, treatment, and compare options. In fact, social media today is a necessity for the healthcare industry.
Sprout Social
MARCH 26, 2020
In the last decade, social media has rapidly evolved and become a major element of marketing in all industries. As a result, social media practitioners now play a role in more business initiatives than ever. — Sprout Social (@SproutSocial) March 19, 2020.
Oktopost
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
Social media is the new business card—it’s more than a trendy marketing tool for any B2B organization; it’s a necessity. With 75% of B2B buyers using social media to make purchase decisions, it has become an essential tool for every business.
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