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Experiment: Does Adding Links to Your Instagram Stories Ruin Engagement?

Hootsuite

Social media marketers and individual users and creators have spent years scrambling for solutions to Instagram’s lack of linkability. From directing users to “ link in bio ” to complicated IGTV hacks , figuring out how to incorporate URLs into Instagram content has been an exercise in creativity. This theory does make a lot of sense.

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Forget Facebook and MySpace – Wall Street Journal Shares Your Information Too

Stay N' Alive

It seems like every other day Wall Street Journal is talking about some other Social Networking site that is revealing all your information to 3rd party advertisers. First they talked about Facebook and the fact that their apps like Zynga’s Farmville are revealing personal data about users to advertisers.

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What is Bluesky Social? Everything Your Brand Needs To Know

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At this point, you’ve likely heard of Bluesky Social, the budding Twitter alternative. It’s one of a few text-based social networks that have cropped up as Twitter, now X , makes the shift to becoming an “everything app” under its new leader, Elon Musk. What is Bluesky? How does Bluesky work?

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Why Social Commerce Will Rule 2020

Pixlee

Many know this concept as social commerce. Social commerce is defined as “an online marketing model that brings ecommerce functionality directly into established social networks to drive sales.”. Businesses that are leveraging social commerce are effectively reaching their customers where they hang out.

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What Is Substack and How Does it Work?

Hootsuite

In fact, it’s the biggest disruption to journalism, personal writing and thought leadership since the blog boom of the 2000s. And it might just be the missing piece in your social media marketing plan. Name your publication, give a summary of what it’s about and confirm your URL. Get Social. Create your publication.

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United Way of Central Indiana Recognized for their Social Media.

Firebelly

  The article, Appealing to Community , focused on how not-for-profits are reaching out to younger donors with social media while keeping older supporters in the fold.  Chad Richards is the Social Program Manager at Firebelly Marketing.

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Why You Should Ask Why

Ari Herzog

My undergrad degree was in journalism and I do miss writing, so that’s another motive. My undergrad degree was in journalism and I do miss writing, so that’s another motive. I have my URL on my resume and I would hope that any company looking to hire me would get an idea that I’m knowledgeable and interested in relevant areas.

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