SOCIAL MEDIA TUESDAY IN-DEPTH: Top 50 Breaking News & Stories Worthy to Read/Watch & Share | 7/22
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You have been tasked with developing a social media program for your campaign or organization and you want to know where to begin. Sure, the obvious first steps are to create you social media channels (which, of course, includes coming u...
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Most business owners understand the importance of a social media presence but often cite three reasons why they don’t spend as much time on it as they should.
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Social media is everywhere these days. What started as an amusing online pastime is now one of the main ways in which people communicate with one another. However, as should be expected with over 2 billion people using a service, with th...
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How many times have you seen something interesting on Facebook only to forget what it was or who posted it later on? Now you can spare yourself this anguish with the help of a new Facebook save feature, which will help users keep interes...
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Social media websites have changed the way the people around the world interact with each other. No longer confined to traditional means of communication, people now can quickly access information and spread news simply by logging onto t...
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A majority of Americans said they're not influenced by social media, yet marketers persist. What's the answer to the Social Word of Mouth debate?
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LinkedIn is the social network for professionals, a place to have an online resume, connect with people from your industry or potential employers, and read relevant news. Most people only use LinkedIn's main features, but the social medi...
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SimpleReach, a startup that helps marketers and publishers measure the effectiveness of their content and ads, is announcing that it has raised $9 million in Series A funding. The company says it can not only tell customers how wel...
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Facebook have over 1 billion active users and increasing. So, it is important for all size and type of businesses to have a Facebook Business Page to reach to their target audience and promote their products/services as part of their soc...
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VideoThe strain of chauvinist bro culture running through the tech world may have attained its fullest expression at Tinder, where an ex-executive claims she was called a "slut" and a "whore" and hounded about the details of her sex life...
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LinkedIn is exploring location updates reminiscent of Foursquare and Sonar, according to LinkedIn designers Mauroof Ahmed and Moses Ting. These experiments follow a series of moves from LinkedIn designed to boost engagement, including th...
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Thanks for clicking! You just did something that most businesses now rely on as their first contact with potential customers. This essential interaction, arguably, is what content marketing... Read More The post You’ll Never Believe the ...
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RealNetworks hopes the Slingo brand will differentiate its casino games. It is unveiling Slingo Adventure.
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Social-media networks like Facebook and LinkedIn rank low—barely ahead of airlines—in a national customer satisfaction survey.
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Facebook announced late last week that they are testing a new method for people to discover and buy products directly on the platform, and there’s good reason to be excited for this potential new feature.
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A picture’s worth a thousand likes. Or at least more likes than a post without one. Numerous studies have shown that including a profile picture is essential to... Read More The post DOs and DON’Ts of Social Media Pictures appeared...
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Snapchat appears to be getting ready for monetisation. Two trademarks were filed earlier this month for software that processes electronic payments and processing fund transfer requests, including credit cards and mobile payments. The mo...
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Is your company new to the B2B social media game – or are you revamping your strategy? Get your platform going in five steps.
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At the time of this writing, Minecraft had sold over 16.2 Million copies of the desktop PC/Mac edition. The “Pocket Edition” (for tablets and smartphones): 21 Million copies. Add in XBOX and PS3 sales and it makes it to number three on W...
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Click here to receive the Morning Social Media Newsfeed via email. Facebook Announces Rollout of Save Feature (AllFacebook) After several tests of a save feature, Facebook announced Monday that it will officially roll out Save to a...
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Congratulations! Your brand is on Twitter. You have a great opportunity to promote your brand story, grow your network, and maybe make a few easy sales. While it can be a pretty casual place to communicate, don’t take such a laid b...
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Just hours after The New York Times posted an article about bogus Twitter accounts dedicated to spreading pro-China propaganda, Twitter appears to have hit the kill switch on a score of the suspect accounts.
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Social network completes deal announced in March, so what does the future hold for its virtual reality division? Facebook now owns virtual reality startup Oculus VR, after closing the $2bn acquisition which was announced by the two compa...
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With the social network's test of a 'Buy' button, you can check in any time you like, but you can never leave Facebook is testing a "buy" button that will allow you to instantly purchase anything you see in an ad or post. This ...
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Is visual content part of your social media strategy? Is your content flexible enough to engage fans in real time? Your audience is never more primed to share content than when they’re “in the moment” at an event, on lo...
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In the last few months, I’ve had numerous real-life interactions with companies and front-line employees. And one thing is clear: companies suck at communicating in real life. This revelation begs the following question: how can they eve...
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A year after it incorporated games into its cross-platform messaging app, Tango has announced a $25 million fund designed to encourage developers to launch their games on its service. The post Tango messaging app launches $25 million gam...
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SEO stopped being about simple keyword placement and backlinks a long time ago. You need to get people talking about you to their own audiences. To do that, you have to learn how to use social media properly! READ THE ORIGINAL POST HERE:...
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Facebook on Monday began letting people squirrel away online tidbits such as links to chew on more thoroughly later. "Now you can save items that you find on Facebook to check out later when you have more time," software engine...
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How much of your day is spent on recurring social media activities? Are small tasks taking up too much of your time? When you know where tools can help you most, you can decide which tools best suit your needs. In this article I’ll addre...
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( By StuartJDavidson on StuartJDavidson.com - Social Media Marketing Resources ) If you’re using content marketing for your business or personal goals, then you will understand that it’s not easy to master and certainly not a...
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Children now worry more about their parents spending too much time on their mobiles or computers than parents worry about their children
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An advocacy group has identified nearly 100 fake accounts on Twitter whose sole purpose appears to be sharing treacly stories about Tibet and Xinjiang.
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Hillary Clinton has high hopes for the future of social media — but we're not there just yet The former U.S. Secretary of State spoke at Twitter headquarters in San Francisco Monday night, capping off a day in Silicon Valley during...
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Facebook has poached Dan Reed, the NBA's Development League president, to head up global sports partnerships. The hire is part of a broader effort by Facebook to expand its relationships with athletes, sports teams, publishers, marketers...
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Facebook added a new "Save" button to help users find specific content again later. Users will be able to save links, posts, pages, and more with the feature, but they won't be able to view the saved content offline. The post Facebook &#...
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Britain's Prince Harry has spoken of his hatred for the micro-blogging website Twitter due to its role in the invasion of his privacy, newspapers reported Tuesday. Harry was speaking to students at an event promoting the upcoming in...
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Views, a website which allows you to view publicly shared photo spheres (360 degree panoramas) on Google Maps has integrated comments functionality powered by Google+. Views is an excellent crowd-sourced website where people can upload t...
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When it came to boosting its customer base during the holiday shopping season , apparel retailer Banana Republic didn’t monkey around, using Facebook’s lookalike audiences to achieve a return on ad spend that was four times higher than ...
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Facebook will announce its financial results for Q2 on Wednesday, but several other firms are reporting another great quarter for Facebook ad results. SocialCode, a Facebook Strategic Preferred Marketing Developer, said clients really pe...
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Gary Hamilton is one lucky man — " the luckiest guy in the world," if you ask him The seasoned television reporter for the New York Yankees woke up for work Saturday to discover his wife, Jennifer, had orchestrated quite the birthd...
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There is no such thing as the average Facebook user, but play along with us: Fialkov Digital used Facebook’s audience insights to paint a picture of Facebook users in the U.S. (more…) New Career Opportunities Daily: The best job...
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Brenda Ann Kenneally’s photographs of the economically depressed city of Troy, NY, provoked a furor on the Internet last week. Can photography inspire compassion, too?
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Hillary Clinton did a chat on Facebook to promote her new book Hard Choices. Some of the questions she was asked were quite peculiar.
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Yahoo is buying the mobile app analytics firm Flurry. “[The acquisition] reinforces [Yahoo's] commitment to building and supporting useful, inspiring and beautiful mobile applications and monetization solutions,” Scott Burke,...
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Some Facebook users are reporting that when they hover their cursors over the cover images of pages , they are seeing some of the about information for those pages. (more…) New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media .