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Top 10 social media analytics tools: The VentureBeat index 10/26/2015

Consumers and businesses alike have something to learn from just about all of your social media interactions. How many people did your post reach? What sort of links do your followers like best? Does anything you do online even matter? Fortunately, the rise of social media has been accompanied by the creation of tools to that analyze the impact of most of your social media activities. complete article

6 Social Media Marketing Trends for 2015 10/23/2015

As we look to 2015, what social media marketing trends are likely to develop? Here are six that online retailers should monitor. 1. Niche Social Networks Will Emerge Mainstream social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn will face challenges from lesser-known upstarts in 2015. One example is Ello, an ad-free social platform still in beta that has received a great deal of attention among those that follow social media developments. complete article

Internet of Things and Social Media 10/21/2015

Learn how IoT, cloud, social networks and last but not least, humans, can be integrated into a seamless integration of cooperative organisms both cybernetic and biological. This has been enabled by recent advances in IoT device capabilities, messaging frameworks, presence and collaboration services, where devices can share information and make independent and human assisted decisions based upon social status from other entities. complete article

Importance of Keywords in Content and Social Media Marketing 10/19/2015

Keywords. They are still as powerful as they were in 1996 or the introduction of the Internet to the world. No matter what keywords you have, they can provide your content the kind of impact that it deserves. complete article

3 Tips for Promoting Your Products on Social Media 10/16/2015

1. Plan around the online and social hit. Craft your pitches to include elements that readers will want to share on social media. Think about a creative way consumers can engage with your product along with a campaign hashtag. Just as when you include a storyline in a pitch, including decorations on your product’s theme can help editors imagine how to photograph them. This reduces one step of the design process for the publication and gives you additional influence on how your product is presented to the world. complete article

50 Apps to Improve Smart Phones 10/14/2015

A recent study by market research firm Nielsen claimed that the average person uses 27 apps a month, which sounds like very few considering that Apple and Google’s app stores both have more than 1m apps available. The key, of course, is that the 27 apps can be almost entirely different, depending who you ask. Some apps do have mass audiences: Facebook and Twitter in the social networking category; WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Snapchat for messaging; Google Maps for getting around; Spotify for music; YouTube for video; Kindle for reading ebooks; Instagram for photo-sharing; and so on. complete article

Millennials connect with Pope Francis on social media 10/12/2015

As hundreds of visitors line up to write prayers on strips of cloth at the Knotted Grotto art installation at the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul, 18-year-old Cassie Sadie has a message of her own, typed in 140 characters or less. complete article

Working with RSS Feeds: Maximizing Your Content Stream 10/09/2015

An RSS feed is a means to distribute changing web content including blog posts, podcasts, news releases and site updates to related sites, blogs, online publishers and feed subscribers. It allows busy people to get the information they want without having to use email, which prevents the publisher from selling or otherwise providing their contract information to other parties. complete article

5 Reasons Why Social Media Buttons Hurt Nonprofit Websites 10/07/2015

That little row of social media buttons has become a ubiquitous feature of most websites. After all, it is good to show off that you are social, and that there are channels where you can interact directly with stakeholders. But is your website header or sidebar the best place to show that off? Here are five reasons why having social media buttons on your nonprofits website might do more harm than good: 1) They send visitors away from your website

3 Google Sheets Functions to Track Competitors, More 10/05/2015

Google Sheets can monitor competitors prices, capture news headlines, and devour data from websites, CSV files, and more. The tool helps small business owners and marketers gain a competitive advantage. Google Sheets, the search giant’s cloud-based spreadsheet service, does more than just make your financial statements legible. The service has many powerful functions and features. Three of these may even help your business collect competitor and industry data that could lead to better decisions. complete article

Digital Marketing 10/02/2015

We often confuse relevance with creativity. Relevance is not about being cutting edge or participating in the latest fad. When it comes to social media, relevance is about delivering the right message to the right person at the right time through the right channel. Sometimes it is actually easier to understand relevance by looking at what it is not. complete article

How to Identify Your Best Social Media Influencers 09/30/2015

Social media has become an integrated layer in our lives, available at almost every point in your day and even in space. It is this level of integration in our lives which has also made social media so powerful as a marketing tool and why just about every business has integrated it into their overall marketing strategies. One important element of social media, if you really want to get the eyes, ears, and mouths of the people really making an impact, is to connect and engage with the influencers of each social platform. complete article

Feedly Adds Shared Collections For Pro Users, Lets Teams Share Sources 09/28/2015

Feedly has become one of the best ways to keep up with your RSS feeds. One key feature that’s been missing, however, is the ability to bulk share a collection of sources. Now, Feedly is adding this feature to Feedly Pro. complete article

Social Media Use in Teens Linked to Poor Sleep, Anxiety 09/25/2015

The pressure to be available 24-7 on social media may lead to poorer sleep quality as well as an increased risk of depression and anxiety in teens, according to a new study. In the study, researchers asked 467 teenagers ages 11 to 17 about their use of social media during the day and at night. complete article

Facebook Patents 09/23/2015

Facebook has been experiencing an uptick in terms of its intellectual property holdings in recent years. In 2014, the company was tied with Emerson Electric for 132nd overall with 279 patents issued that year by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, an increase of almost 120 percent over the companys patenting pace the previous year. Facebooks already earned 250 U.S. patents in 2015 according to Innography, making it very likely that the company will post higher patent totals this year. The text cluster provided here shows us that much of the companys recent innovation focuses on social networking, although user interfaces and computing devices were also large areas of focus. complete article

Search Preset RSS Feeds 09/21/2015

Enter search word to search preset RSS Feeds.

Republican Social Media Race 09/18/2015

It seems hard to imagine that the winner of the 2016 Presidential Election will not also win another important race… the social media race. In todays hyper-connected world, the candidate that inspires enough of the population to eventually win the election will likely also have excited enough of the public to follow her or him on their various social media networks. complete article

Constant Social Media and Teens Mental Health 09/16/2015

Teens who feel a round-the-clock compulsion to participate on social media sites like Facebook or Twitter may pay a price in lost sleep. They may also face a higher risk for depression and anxiety, new research suggests. British researchers surveyed nearly 470 teens to explore how 24-7 social media participation might affect their emotional health. complete article

Add a custom RSS feed to your Android home screen 09/14/2015

What if you want to see a particular news feed on your home screen... say, one that does not connect with the built-in news feed tools? You turn to RSS. That is right, we are going old school. complete article

What Brands Need to Know About Visual Social Media 08/28/2015

Consider your brand across all visual touchpoints, suggests WebDAM. Include logos, typography, press kit, photography, and icons. complete article

Local Parents Take Social Media Product Complaints With A Grain of Salt 08/26/2015

A national diaper company is on the defense after a mothers video on social media went viral, claiming glass shards were in a bag of wipes. Other angry parents also took to social media to attack Huggies, showing how claims, founded or baseless, can reach thousands, even millions in just a few hours or days. complete article

After Years Of Restraint, Facebook Tries Allowing GIFs In Ads And Page Posts 08/24/2015

Facebook refused to fill its site with flashy animated banner ads for a decade. Zuckerberg thought these interrupted the user experience, and could stunt growth. But after reaching near ubiquity and acclimating users to video ads, today the company tells me it’s relaxing its standards and starting to allow businesses to post GIFs as ads and Page posts. complete article

The 15 Social Media Trends that Defined a Generation 08/17/2015

Over the past few years, social media has given rise to a number of crazes that have quickly spread across the web; with the likes of Twitter and Facebook, a trend started in Devon can reach Delaware in a matter of minutes. In the past 5 years, social media trends have got bigger and bigger, and in some cases wackier and wackier. From the more absurd trends like Batmanning and Cinnamon Challenge, to those with an underlying charitable cause like the Ice Bucket Challenge, social media trends spread like wildfire. Chances are you will have had at least a handful of trends pop up on your social media feeds over the years. complete article

Google+ History 08/14/2015

Create a social network or risk everything. That was the original pitch for Googles Facebook rival, Google+, a refrain hammered over and over by the social network's chief architect, Vic Gundotra, in meetings with the companys top brass. Gundotra, described by colleagues we spoke with as charismatic and politically-savvy, eventually persuaded Larry Page, the Google cofounder who returned as CEO at the beginning of 2011 after a decade behind the scenes, to turn the company upside down for this cause. complete article

Microsoft Band lets developers build apps that tap RSS feeds for content 08/12/2015

Microsoft is letting developers create apps for its Band fitness tracker that convey information pulled from RSS feeds and display it on the devices screen. complete article

Audio Recording Software for Podcasters 08/10/2015

RecordForAll allows for you to easily record, and edit audio files. Free evaluation version available for download! Audio Recording Software for Podcasters

How to use PressForward for content creation 08/07/2015

We live in an age of information overload. With all the stories from news, blogs, social media, and other sources, the amount of information about any given subject can be overwhelming. It is hard enough to keep up when you are just a consumer of information, but what about when you need to curate content for a target audience? complete article

Newsify Comes to Apple Watch 08/05/2015

Through its latest update, Newsify has been enhanced with its very own companion app for Apple Watch. The extension lets you quickly access the latest articles from your feeds right on your wrist, with indications for unread items and time since last sync. complete article

Microsoft Band lets developers build apps that tap RSS feeds for content 08/03/2015

Microsoft is also opening its Health Cloud platform to outside developers, allowing them to integrate fitness data into their Microsoft Band apps. complete article

Auri 07/31/2015

Auri is an RSS and Reddit reader that can read articles out loud to you. We have featured similar apps before, but this one differentiates itself by also allowing you to use voice commands to start feeds. If you are in the kitchen, behind the wheel, or just exceedingly lazy, this app does everything it can to accommodate you and your reading habit. complete information

How the Feed Changed the Way We Consume Content 07/29/2015

The feed now dominates online content consumption, from the news we read on our mobile devices to the social networks we check constantly throughout the day, as well as the ads that integrate onto those platforms. complete article

Now You Can Pull RSS Feeds Into Buffers Social Media Management Tool 07/27/2015

The feed now dominates online content consumption, from the news we read on our mobile devices to the social networks we check constantly throughout the day, as well as the ads that integrate onto those platforms. complete article

Really Simple Suggestions RSS 07/24/2015

Real Simple Syndication (RSS), has stayed basically static since its creation more than 15 years ago. It is time for a facelift. complete article

Social Media Could Deal your Brand a Blow 07/22/2015

Decide how you intend to use social media and to whom you will allow access, especially on Facebook. You do not necessarily need to completely sanitise all your social media profiles — because companies want to hire real people, and some companies specifically look for creativity and personality. However, if you want to ensure a potential employer does not reject you on those grounds, make sure your online social profile depicts the type of employee a company would want to hire. complete article

Convert Casual Social Media Followers Into Brand Advocates 07/20/2015

Despite being difficult to measure, the growing impact of social media on brands is undeniable. In fact, analysts from Social@Ogilvy recently surveyed more than 5,500 social media users across 11 countries in an attempt to find out how brands should be using social to make a true impact on shoppers. complete article

Social Media Marketers Face New Challenges As FTC Rolls Out New Guidelines 07/17/2015

The Federal Trade Commission rolled out its latest truth in advertising guidelines. The last time the FTC updated its guidelines for truth in advertising was back in 2010. The new guidelines may precede a crackdown for social media marketing. Their effect on social media marketing includes how marketers handle the use of celebrity endorsements. The FTC recommends that marketers have a proper disclosure check up to make sure that their social media marketing campaigns fall within FTC guidelines. complete article

How Do You Use Social Media? 07/15/2015

With the widespread use of major social media platforms, it can be hard to understand why new ones keep being created. Could this be because each social network actually only fills one or two specific niches for users? complete article

Arduino and RSS Feeds 07/13/2015

Looking for a way to keep an eye on RSS feeds throughout the day? You could be sensible and use a good RSS reader, or you could do something like the Arduino RSS Feed Display. complete article

Everything You Need To Know About YouTube RSS Feeds 07/10/2015

YouTube is also a site filled with video content which can be extracted via RSS. You might be keen to share YouTube RSS feeds of your own content or you might want to get RSS feeds of things that interest you. complete article

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