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Today I have some great resources that will bring more to your social media marketing this year. Here’s four links with tips and tricks. In order to stay current and focus on your audience it’s important to use the latest tools that appeal to both desktop and mobile users. As technology takes us into a new era in marketing it will become more challenging to promote growth. Take advantage of these resources and improve your marketing strategy. Are you ready to infuse more life into your social networks? Let me know how these work for you!...
Free resource of educational web tools, 21st century skills, tips and tutorials on how teachers and students integrate technology into education
Via Tom D'Amico (@TDOttawa)
Do you have valuable social media posts you don’t want to lose?
Want to learn how to back up your social media profiles?
Downloading your social media profiles, content, and contacts will ensure you always have what you need to keep your business running, no matter what platform or features come and go.
In this article, you’ll discover how to download copies of your social media content and profiles....
What if you could ask today’s most influential online marketers one question: “What social media tool is your all-time, desert-island, can’t-live-without favorite?” That’s exactly what I did.What follows are – by any list or metric – 50 of the biggest names in online marketing, their top social-media tool (after the infographic) … and why they love it....
Open Broadcaster Software is free and open source software for recording and live streaming. Stream to Twitch, YouTube and many other providers or record your own videos with high quality H264 / AAC encoding.
Via Nik Peachey
Twitter is a fascinating adventure of relationships, entertainment, education, and fun. Now imagine layering on a few dozen power-ups. That’s how it feels sometimes when you find just the right Twitter tool. And there’s a tool for practically every desire or whim. Tools for productivity, for efficiency, for research, and so much more. With such a generous API, Twitter tools have become legion—and we social sharers are better off for it. At Buffer, we tend to come across a fair share of social media tools. We’ve collected a great bunch to share with you! Here are all the tools we’ve found helpful and many more that we’re excited to try. If there’s a free Twitter tool out there, you’re likely to find a mention here in our list. ...
The landscape of productivity apps is wide and varied. Where do you start? What’ll work best for you?
The infographic below from Conosco outlines 44 different productivity apps, with the pros and cons of each so you can figure out what’ll be the best fit for your workstyle. Start building your own productivity system today!...
Imagine knowing what every lead does before and after they fill out a form.With HubSpot Marketing Free, it’s not just easy. It’s automatic. The moment a lead shares their email, you’ll know who they are, where they work, and what pages they visited – all in real time. When they view an offer or check your pricing, you’ll be ready to follow up right away. And with simple but powerful analytics, you’ll learn more about what’s working and what’s not – like which traffic sources or pieces of content are driving the most conversions. It's a risk-free way to find out what inbound marketing can do for you. No budget necessary....
How it works Inpaint photo restoration software reconstructs the selected image area from the pixels near the area boundary. Remove undesirable objects from your images, such as logos, watermarks, power lines, people, text or any other undesired artefacts. There's no need to manually go through messing around with your old clone tool any more! Now you can use Inpaint to easily remove all those unexpected objects that end up spoiling an otherwise really great photograph.Remove objects from photos The devil is always in details. A tiny object on a photo can ruin the entire composition or even make it produce the effect opposite to that you initially were hoping for. Using Inpaint removing objects from photos is almost as easy as taking a shot itself. With merely three simple steps you can make power lines, tourists, buildings, background wreckage and other elements vanish as if they never were there....
Let’s face it: Blogging and producing content on a daily basis isn’t easy. Even if you don’t compose an actual article everyday, chances are you’re still emailing and typing endless paragraphs on sources like Reddit, Facebook, or commenting on other blogs. You may otherwise be researching and connecting with fellow writers/bloggers as part of your daily work routine. To make these responsibilities just a bit easier, here are some of the best – and most reliable – Google Chrome extensions for writers, marketers, and general bloggers....
CopyPasteCharacter is a super-simple web page that displays all of the extended special characters, grouped into families, that you have at your disposal, while offering one-click copy into memory (as if you did Ctrl + C) for immediate pasting into any app. 100% free. My comment: Extremely useful tool for finding and using extended characters inside any text or app. Highly recommended. Try it out now: http://copypastecharacter.com/...
More engagement with every image you create. Perfect for creating social media posts, ad graphics, content marketing visuals, email images & more! 89% More Favorites (Source: Buffer) 150% More Retweets (Source: Buffer) 84% More Clicks (Source: Kiss Metrics) Create images faster & easier than ever before. Pick a background. Add some text. No biggie....
AEJMC in Minneapolis this year featured apps on numerous panels. I was grateful for the chance to be on a terrific one to present “10 Tech Tools in 10 Minutes.” Our goal: to provide the audience a brief introduction to tools they might never have before considered and show how they could be used to aid students’ journalistic performance or understanding. It worked; I received more than a dozen emails after the panel from people who sought advice on how to use suggested apps. For those who could not join us at AEJMC, here is a crash course on apps featured by our panel and others. Some are new. Some have been around, but you might not have discovered them. All can help you teach your students to be more nimble and professional in this ever-changing media landscape....
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Communications on the Internet started out as simple email conversations. Then came social media, offering new ways of interaction among people from across the world. Email is still the primary mode of professional communication. Yet, over the course of time, one does look for building up (both personal and professional) connections with other people, on social media as well. Say you have a business email contact, with whom you wish to connect on social media. He or she could be an active user on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook or even Google Plus. How do you find out your contact’s social profiles from that? Of course, the easiest way is to just ask. But “asking” might not be convenient in every situation. Or, maybe you just want to check out a sender’s social profiles before taking any further action. In which case, you have to manually search them on the Internet and also validate whether those social profiles you find are genuine or not. Well, there’s an easier and more definitive way to find out. Most people have a primary email address, which is used to sign up on all the social networking sites. And thus, in a way, that one email address links all the respective social profile. Taking advantage of this fact, ManyContacts is an online service that reveals respective social connections based on the email address provided. It is also available in the form of a Chrome extension, and works with Gmail, Google Apps, and other email providers as well....
It was recently announced that Instagram has doubled its monthly active user base since 2014, which means a lot more people are viewing and sharing photos. Plus, visual content is 40X more likely to get shared on social media than other types. In other words, people like to be shown, not told -- and in turn, they share. For that reason, it's important for marketers to know how to create compelling visuals for their business' social networks and blogs. And while it can be worth putting the investment of time and money into photo editing software on your computer, many of us are exclusively using our phones to take pictures and could stand to edit them without uploading them to a desktop. That's especially true when you're posting in real time, like at an event. Luckily, there are tons of great photo and video editing apps out there for mobile devices -- some of them even cost a few bucks. But which are the best, free or paid? Check out our shortlist below....
What are the hottest marketing tools you should be using in 2017? As we test out a lot of tools, we are going to share the tools we use on a regular basis. This may not be the definitive list of all the best marketing tools out there, but it is the contents of our well-equipped toolbox, and it’s definitely worth your consideration. Marketing Automation Marketing automation is a big growth area and if you haven’t invested in a marketing automation tool now is the time to do so. Let’s look at some numbers. In just two years, marketing automation has grown from being a $500 million industry to a $1.2 billion one. It can streamline a lot of key marketing functions, and it’s proving itself as a great revenue driver for companies large and small....
For all of the greatness that the internet affords -- cute animal videos, GIFs, and interesting blogs -- I think its biggest downside is how distracting it can be. How many times have you sat down to work and been pulled into a pit of procrastination? Perhaps you get absorbed in updates on social media, or maybe you click through Wikipedia trying to determine what exactly Gina Rodriguez’s first TV role was (it was on Law & Order). No matter where you click online, it’s easy to be pulled into a black hole of distraction andlow productivity.Enter Google Chrome browser extensions. The Google Chrome web store offers a variety of different tools that help you be more productive with just one click. We can’t guarantee that they will make YouTube videos less tempting to watch, but we recommend them for busy marketers who want to make their time online more efficient. We’ve broken them down into different categories if you want to jump ahead:...
Looking for effective ways to streamline your social media marketing tasks?
Have you heard of IFTTT applets?
Applets let you automate social media posting tasks so you can spend more time engaging with your audience.
In this article, you’ll discover how to automate a variety of social media tasks with IFTTT applets....
The thing to remember with any type of social media automation is that you will still have to spend some time on social media.
Whether you are replying to a customer or commenting on another person’s post, the human factor still has to be there.
With the social media world going mobile, interaction is always important.
But for those things you can automate, let’s have a look at some of the best social media automation tools available. These tools will help save you time and can do a few other things to make your life easier too.
The social media world is a fascinating one. Every so often, a new social media platform emerges to capture our attention (Peach) or become part of our daily lives (Snapchat). The social media tools landscape can be just as fascinating — and robust! With all these tools to choose from, how can you stay on top of the latest and greatest? As part of our State of Social Media 2016 campaign, we’ve scoured Product Hunt for the latest trending social media tools and created a list of 21 products for marketers and teams to try in 2017.Keep reading to see the full list, or click over to the Product Hunt collection with all of 2017’s best social media tools....
But we need to ask a question: how do you capitalize on this sales-ready segment of the population? How can you make sure your business is placed front and center before their eyes? It doesn’t have to be complicated. In fact, if you use these four tools, you’re virtually guaranteed a position at the top. I’ve seen businesses rise from having zero online presence to dominating their local markets simply by using these tools. You can do it too. Here are five tools you should be using....
The following are some of the best browser extensions for marketers to help them perform all blogging-related work with ease. Some tasks may include staying up-to-date more efficiently, being able to add images to Pinterest with the click of a button, saving important articles for later, and much more.Let’s dig right in....
Me In a Nutshell is a free, fast, easy way to create a unique personal profile with text, images or both based on a variety of your own social media profiles. The example here is based on my Twitter profile adn created in 30 seconds with just a few clicks. You can do the same at Me In a Nutshell https://www.meinanutshell.com
Snappa makes it easy to create any type of online graphic. Create & publish images for social media, content marketing, and more! Hundreds of ready made templates Don't want to design from scratch? No problem! Just choose from our growing collection of beautiful templates to get started in seconds. Everything you need to create stunning graphics Snappa combines the best visual assets with a fully-featured graphic editor....
SnapChat officially changed its name to Snap, Inc. as the company restyles itself from a one-[major] hit app company into a digital lifestyle brand. To mark the occasion, Snap, Inc. introduced Spectacles, fashion and tech-forward sunglasses that record 10-second clips, which can then be uploaded to SnapChat Memories via wifi. Following the Apple playbook, Snap, Inc. also designed a fashionable case that doubles as a charger. Spectacles will be available this Fall and will cost $130.
Spectacles are the result of a secret acquisition in December 2014 of VergenceLabs, which developed Epiphany Eyewear to record video clips with the press of a button on the side of the frame and upload them online via its app. Over the last 19 months, Snap, Inc. remodeled Epiphany into a fun, but thoughtful sunglass package to give Snappers a way to share their perspective hands-free.
By pressing a small button on the side of the glasses, Spectacles capture video through a 115-degree lens, which better conveys someone’s natural perspective and field of vision. Those on the other side of the lens, will know they’re being recorded because of a halo-like light that surrounds the lens. Unlike smartphones, which record video in a rectangular format, video via Spectacles is circular, allowing the viewer to watch the content naturally, whether in portrait or landscape mode, the way the user “saw” it. Essentially, clips offer a playback experience that simulates your natural point of view....
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Susan Gilbert shares four cool social media tools.