SOCIAL MEDIA MONDAY: Top 50 Breaking News, Headlines & Stories Worthy to Read/Watch & Share
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We're trying to find out what value social media and business skills can have for your career. We'll be announcing the results at The Social Shake-Up 2014.
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Ultimately, a holistic approach to social media monitoring evidence will overcome barriers in providing the right information to the right stakeholders and at the same time help solve complex operational and department-related issues. Wh...
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My friends who worked as Facebook managers were literally panicked. I will not speak with you in this article about leaving Facebook and investing in Instagram or Twitter, but I will share with you 5 marketing plans that you can follow o...
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As we learned recently, Facebook advertisers have had great success leading people down the conversion funnel through sequencing posts in a Facebook ad campaign like a story. But how should it be done? Flightpath put together...
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London-based firm mSpy makes apps that let parents spy on their children and bosses spy on their employees via their smartphones. Its newest offering, mCouple , gives users complete access to their significant others’ location, Fac...
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There's never a bad time to wear something daring. All the style rules — like, less is more when it comes to jewelry, and wearing socks with open-toed shoes is a big no-no — are so often overridden without a problem. After al...
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To celebrate reaching 100,000 Facebook Likes, our sister site Inside Facebook is partnering up with Mediabistro to give away an all-access pass to the popular Content Marketing 101 online boot camp. The contest is on until August 8, and ...
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Rewarding your audience is an excellent way of demonstrating you care for them and you appreciate the vital role they play in your success. Though it may seem obvious, acknowledge them! Here are some ideas that may help you reward your a...
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Your friend posts a link to a story in the New Yorker that’s 7 pages long, but you’re just quickly skimming Facebook at work. Your favorite band just posted their newest music video, but you’re on the...
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Facebook just announced the launch of a “save” feature, which lets you save things you find to check out later. You can save links, places, movies, movies, TV shows, and music you find on Facebook. Introducing Save on Faceboo...
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The new feature is rolling out on the desktop and in the iOS and Android mobile apps in the next few days, Facebook says.
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The Montgomery County Sheriff's office unveiled its new strategy to use social media to capture deadbeat parents.
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Facebook added a new feature Monday that lets users save things they're interested in — but may not have time to check out — for a later date. The new feature, simply called "Save," lets you flag things like links, places, or...
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Two years after acqhiring read-it-later startup Spool, Facebook today launched a basic Pocket competitor called Save. It’s a feature for iOS, Android, and web that lets you store links from News Feed and Facebook Pages for Pl...
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Knock, a recently launched Android application, offers a new twist on mobile messaging. When you send a message using this app, Knock simulates an incoming call to get your friend’s attention. But the call screen your friend ...
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Twitter announced recently that users will be able to delete direct messages (DMs) — private messages between users who follow each other — more consistently on both mobile and the Web. Users have been deleting DMs on their m...
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The Twitter account run by Kenya's military was taken over by hackers claiming to be from the international activist collective Anonymous, a military spokesman said Monday No internal military systems ...
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Shareaholic just released its Q2 Social Media Traffic Report. Out of the eight top social networks (Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, StumbleUpon, Reddit, YouTube, Google+, and LinkedIn), only Facebook saw an increase as a source of social m...
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Much has been made of the decline of organic reach of Facebook Page posts, but the social network only continues to drive more and more traffic to websites. In fact, according to a new report, it’s the only one of …
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While there are a number of family locator services to choose from today, ranging from those offered by the mobile operators to venture-backed startups, a nearly two-year old mobile application called Mamabear was created with a go...
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Why is Asia's Nexon cutting so many deals with Western game makers?
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City council members in Seoul are trying to find laws that would make ride-sharing app Uber illegal in that city. Officials are citing unfair competition for taxi drivers and concerns about driver background checks and vehicle maintenanc...
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It would appear that Pinterest is only becoming a greater source of web traffic for sites that focus on trying to get it. According to a new report, Buzzfeed, one of the Internet’s biggest consumers of web traffic, is getting …
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Today’s bride is leveraging her social networking skills to make her dream day come true. A quick scroll through your Facebook News Feed and you’ll probably spot her recording every step of the way. It all starts with the eng...
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ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — The U.S. Embassy in Ghana is apologizing after a staff member sent what's being described as "an errant tweet" criticizing the president from the official Embassy Twitter account.
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TECH CRUNCH - July 18 - Twitter has acquired CardSpring, an app platform that lets developers build card-linked offers electronic coupons, loyalty cards, and virtual currencies that work with credit cards and other types of payments. Twi...
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Inside Facebook has been covering the Facebook platform since 2006, when Facebook was still in its infancy. We’ve also been an early adopter of Facebook. Our fanbase has grown incredibly fast in the past year, as...
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Picture a room in Omaha with Hyatt associates looking at screens filled with social media home pages, with a focus on Twitter. In shifts, they watch 24/7 to see what guests, past guests and potential guests are saying to each other, to H...
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Fraudsters are cashing-in on the Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 disaster by creating "distasteful" fake Facebook pages in the names of child victims, while reports suggest that rebels have looted belongings from the crash site itself
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It's the question that has vexed social media advertisers for the past few years. Can social bridge the gap between digital and physical? Can promotions in a news feed prompt a shopper to go in-store rather than just put an item in a vir...
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Both Facebook and Twitter are working on making it easier to buy goods and services. Facebook is testing a "buy" button, while Twitter has acquired startup CardSpring for "in-the-moment" ecommerce. Facebook's "buy" button is being triall...
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Twitter is reworking its direct messaging platform so that users will be able to delete messages more consistently across web and mobile, the company said Friday. Direct messages are private messages sent between two Twitter users, who f...
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Marketing on Facebook is a pretty hot topic these days, and since we’ve launched all 7 books in our Facebook for Business series, I figured that today would be a fine day to cover some random Facebook marketing tidbits that I learn...
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Boards, uberVU via Hootsuite’s latest product innovation, are highly customized, interactive dashboards that our users can personalize to fit a specific task, job function or use case. We’re... Read More The post Social Media Management ...
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I'm intrigued by the reaction that has unfolded around the Facebook "emotion contagion" study. As others have pointed out, the practice of A/B testing content is quite common. And Facebook has a long history of experimenting on how it ca...
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Michael Brenner has received recognition across the Internet for his knowledge and role in shaping content marketing as we know it today. Recently, I had a chance to sit down and ask Michael about where he sees content marketing, brand j...
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There are no 100% guaranteed strategies to make your start-up into a success. So where does that leave us? At the stage of implementation. Compiled here for your consideration are 5 of the most potent principles of start-up strategy.
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FORBES made a little news last week. A majority stake in our 97-year-old company, one of the most storied brands in American media history, was sold to an international investor group. Steve Forbes has the details in this post. So often,...
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"Nothing is more frustrating to an online shopper than clicking on an ad only to find out it's out of stock or not the version advertised," said Dan Morris, director of product marketing at Marin Software. "Ads are deleted when inventory...
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The social network is attempting to attract more users to its private messaging functions as it steps up the war with Facebooks chat app Twitter is stepping up competition against the rival WhatsApp by improving its direct message tool t...
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Netflix, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Facebook makes for a big week of earnings
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Leads can be converted into actual, real-world sales and repeat business with a well-placed contact form. Here's how to add a contact form to your Facebook page. Continue reading →
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Click here to receive the Morning Social Media Newsfeed via email. Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash: Singapore Airlines Apologizes for Social Media Remarks it Posted After Tragedy ( Irish Mirror ) Singapore Airlines has apologized for ...
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Love it or hate it, so-called click bait has become part of content marketing. While many people see these types of social messages or headlines as a trick... Read More The post What if Classic Books Were Given Click-Baity Titles? appear...
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The minute a marketing technique becomes a fad, it becomes a breeding ground for mediocrity. Here are suggestions for content marketing that actually works.
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As Facebook requires brand pages to pay up for visibility, in spite of its other transparency transgressions, it has wisely taken the road that old-line media staples like Oprah Winfrey and Ellen DeGeneres did not.
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The Colombian singer has reached 100 million likes on the social network
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Getting your message in front of the decision makers is difficult. So, how can you ensure that your B2B content makes it past the gatekeeper and into the hands of your target audience?
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Kuwait's top court on Monday upheld a 10-year jail sentence for a Shiite Twitter user for insulting the Prophet Mohammed and his wife and companions. Hamad al-Naqi, 24, was also charged with insulting Saudi Arabia and Bahrain and sp...
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This post is the first of a 3-part series in which I’ll show how businesses are (successfully) re-inventing their marketing strategies for today’s digital world. This series will... Read More The post Want to Win With Content Marketing? ...
