Social Media Examiner

• How to Create Facebook Video Ads People Will Watch

  

  Want more people to watch your video ads? Wondering how to create video ads that look like native, organic content? In this article, you’ll learn how to create Facebook video ads that feel like organic news feed posts. To find out how to create Fac…
  - 30 Mar 21, 6:00am -
• How Marketers Can Respond to Apple’s iOS 14 Privacy Update

  

  Do your customers use iPhones? Wondering how you should alter your marketing based on the new Apple privacy updates? In this article, you’ll discover six tips to adjust your marketing activities in response to the data tracking permissions changes…
  - 29 Mar 21, 6:00am -
• LinkedIn Video Strategy: Getting More Exposure on LinkedIn

  

  Want to use LinkedIn video to position yourself as an expert? Wondering what kind of video content to produce? In this article, you’ll learn how to build your expertise using three types of video on LinkedIn. Why Consider LinkedIn Video? When most…
  - 25 Mar 21, 6:00am -
• YouTube Analytics: How to Use Data to Inform Your Future Videos

  

  Want more engagement, leads, and sales from your YouTube videos? Wondering how to use data to create high-performing videos? In this article, you’ll learn how to use YouTube analytics to identify successful videos you can model for similar results.…
  - 24 Mar 21, 6:00am -
• Facebook Ad Testing on a Budget: A Proven Method

  

  Looking for a process to test Facebook ads? Wondering how to test Facebook ads without blowing your ad spend? In this article, you’ll discover a proven Facebook ad testing method designed for small budgets and discover which metrics will help you i…
  - 23 Mar 21, 6:00am -

Convince and Convert

Social Media Explorer

Pro Blogger

• How to Write a Series for Your Blog (and Why You’ll Want To)

  

  The post How to Write a Series for Your Blog (and Why You’ll Want To) appeared first on ProBlogger.Have you ever written a series of posts for your blog – a set of posts that are deliberately linked together? If you haven’t, I hope I can con…
  - 2 days ago, 30 Nov 22, 11:50pm -
• Prepare Your Blog For the Festive Season: a Step-by-step Guide

  

  The post Prepare Your Blog For the Festive Season: a Step-by-step Guide appeared first on ProBlogger.Over the past week or so, we ran a short series of interviews with bloggers of different types, to get a feel for how they’re preparing for the f…
  - 9 days ago, 24 Nov 22, 5:55am -
• Blogging the Festive Season: The Blogger-Consultant-Speaker [Case Study]

  

  The post Blogging the Festive Season: The Blogger-Consultant-Speaker [Case Study] appeared first on ProBlogger.Tara Gentile (now McMullin) is a blogger and business strategist whose online presence underpins her thriving consulting business at expl…
  - 16 days ago, 17 Nov 22, 1:02am -
• What I Learned Starting My Newest Blog

  

  The post What I Learned Starting My Newest Blog appeared first on ProBlogger.Over the past 7 months, I’ve been doing a weekly challenge on a new blog called ‘Find Your Spark’. My goal with it is to write a new ‘prompt’ blog post every wee…
  - 23 days ago, 10 Nov 22, 2:25am -
• Is Your Blog Ready for the Festive Season?

  

  The post Is Your Blog Ready for the Festive Season? appeared first on ProBlogger.There are only 45 days until Christmas! It’s that time of year: the silly season is almost upon us: there’s only 15 days until Black Friday and 18 days until Cyber…
  - 23 days ago, 10 Nov 22, 1:00am -

Chris Brogan

• Portugal and Spain – November 2022

  

  
  - 10 days ago, 22 Nov 22, 8:26pm -
• On the Occasion of my 52nd Birthday
  Okay, so first off, my birthday was yesterday, but I was at a conference in Las Vegas, and I flew back on a red eye. That’s not an excuse. I could post yesterday if I wanted to, but I’m not even sure. I haven’t blogged in whenever. Why should I…
  - 9 Apr 22, 5:10pm -
• My 3 Words for 2022

  

  What is My 3 Words About? The My Three Words idea is simple. Choose 3 words (not 1, not 4) that will help guide your choices and actions day to day. Think of them as lighthouses. “Should I say yes to this project?” “Well, does this align with m…
  - 1 Jan 22, 3:15am -
• Chris Brogan Joins Appfire as Chief of Staff
  Yeah, so I’m taking a role inside a privately held company for a little while as Chief of Staff. That means that I report directly to the CEO and am responsible for keeping the Executive team rolling along nicely, leading strategy initiatives, and…
  - 29 Nov 21, 9:53am -
• What Does it Mean to be Chris Brogan These Days?

  

  For all the years you might have followed me, I never sit still in one place for too long. That’s tricky to wrap your head around, especially in a world that really feels we need to categorize and understand everything. For me, I’ve always just c…
  - 12 Jul 21, 1:59pm -

Social Fresh

• Is The Metaverse The Future Of Social Media?

  

  Facebook is now Meta. Instagram is adding NFTs. Twitter is adding avatars verified on the blockchain. So is Reddit. Is this all a distraction? Or is there an underlying shift to crypto and VR that businesses need to pay closer attention to? There is…
  - 3 Mar 22, 1:12pm -
• Steal These 9 Instagram Templates and Make Them Your Own

  

  There’s a myth that if you design something using a template, that you’re limiting creativity. That templates create repetitive content and miss that… special something. It’s nonsense. Creativity THRIVES within boundaries. Some of the most cr…
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• Lessons Learned From Hosting A Virtual Conference

  

  It turns out that running a live events company during a pandemic is not optimal. Like many other companies, we had to adapt. In the last week of April, we launched tickets for our virtual conference, Social Fresh X. We moved quickly to host a virtua…
  - 22 Jul 20, 4:46pm -
• Facebook Boycott: How To Pivot Your Ad Dollars #StopHateForProfit

  

  Facebook’s 3 billion monthly users is larger than any country, organization, or religion in the history of humanity. With that size comes influence. And responsibility. Social networks, Facebook especially, have a responsibility to reduce their neg…
  - 27 Jun 20, 2:37pm -
• The Social Media Technology Pyramid

  

  
  - 25 Mar 20, 8:12am -

Logic + Emotion

• Goodbye Logic+Emotion, Hello Armano Design Group

  

  The world has changed much since 2006, and a recent Pandemic has accelerated decades of change and transformation in less than two years. We're only just at the beginning.
  - 15 Jul 21, 8:46am -
• The Mentor / Mentee Value Exchange

  

  For the past five years or so, I have been informally mentoring people. I’m happy to report that some of the earliest are ridiculously successful and I still keep in touch. I’m also a mentee to a few people I look up to. Here’s what I’ve lear…
  - 16 Jun 21, 1:34pm -
• Six Thoughts On Career Transition

  

  The fact is, some version of career transition, reinvention, reframing, or transformation comes for all of us — or we come for it. Either way, it’s a learning experience.
  - 6 Jun 21, 12:25pm -
• A Year of Personal Disruption

  

  On an evening in March (you know, the night), I knew something had changed significantly but, like many others, couldn't see past the fog of shock. At the time, I was watching in real-time as the NBA canceled games, the...
  - 31 Dec 20, 11:54am -
• An Open Letter To My Younger Self

  

  Hi, it's me. You don't know me, but in time you will. I have the benefit of time and experience on my side and wanted to share some thoughts with you if you're willing to listen. If you receive this,...
  - 6 Oct 20, 1:11pm -

Brian Solis

• Watch: The Future of Experience Design – exploring the need for human-centered experiences

  

  Via Itamar Medeiros Brian Solis explores the need for human-centered experiences and aims to help executives shift mindsets toward the future. While everyone talks about Customer Experience (CX) as the new black, most companies miss the real opportun…
  - 11 days ago, 22 Nov 22, 8:20am -
• Welcome to the Novel Economy

  

  On average, it takes 66 days for new behaviors to become second nature. We have forever changed in the days, months, years following the global disruption of 2020. You can throw your business playbooks, operational checklists, and mindsets out the wi…
  - 32 days ago, 1 Nov 22, 1:48pm -
• Making The Business Case For The Metaverse: How Companies Can Create Value In The Next Web

  

  The metaverse represents an evolving version of the next web, creating immersive 3D experiences that evolve traditional 2D websites into a connected series of virtual worlds. Already, consumers and businesses are exploring ways to enhance their every…
  - 33 days ago, 31 Oct 22, 12:18pm -
• Reimagining Customer Experiences In Web3: What Are The Big Questions Companies Need to Ask To Create Value For The Next Web?

  

  This is a very important time and inflection point in the evolution of web3. There’s a fantastic opportunity for brands and marketers willing to engage with this new technology. That said, in the wake of the recent volatility in the NFT and crypto…
  - 37 days ago, 27 Oct 22, 1:18pm -
• The Futurists: Living Futures with Brian Solis, Brett King, and Robert Tercek

  

  via The Futurists In this week’s show futurist, digital analyst and anthropologist, along with being a Global Innovation Evangelist for Salesforce, Brian Solis joins hosts Brett King and Robert Tercek to talk adapting to life in the future. As a re…
  - 53 days ago, 11 Oct 22, 8:56am -

Social Media Today

• newInstagram Tests More BeReal-Like Elements as it Looks to Lean Into the Authentic Social Shift
  Will the more authentic social approach of BeReal actually lead to a shift in user behavior and interest?
  - 11 hours ago, 2 Dec 22, 5:21pm -
• newReddit Adds Images in Comments for Selected Communities
  Another way to interact and engage within Reddit communities.
  - 12 hours ago, 2 Dec 22, 4:30pm -
• newTikTok Announces Updated CAP University Marketing Education Course
  The course aims to help agency staff learn more about TikTok’s various marketing tools and approaches.
  - 12 hours ago, 2 Dec 22, 4:15pm -
• newYouTube Announces Updated Monetization Guidelines, New Analytics Tools in the Mobile App
  Worth noting for creators and YouTube advertisers.
  - 12 hours ago, 2 Dec 22, 3:50pm -
• newParler Announces That it’s Terminated Acquisition Negotiations with Kanye West
  Kanye had sought to buy Parler in order to share his unfiltered opinions.
  - 1 day ago, 1 Dec 22, 6:23pm -

Chris Pirillo

• What Happened to the Podcast?
  Nothing, really.
  - 17 Apr 18, 3:17pm -
• How Real People Talk Of Tech
  Admit it: you didn't realize that I switched from publishing a podcast daily to weekly until this very moment.
  - 3 Dec 17, 11:50pm -
• The Value of More Than Free
  How much is this podcast worth to you?
  - 24 Nov 17, 11:31pm -
• Google Is Going To Be Google
  So, the last thing you want to do is get mad at Google for doing what Google usually does. Apparently, people are mad for Google doing what it usually does.
  - 23 Nov 17, 7:09pm -
• You Can Play That Again
  Go ahead. Ask me a question that I have already answered in this podcast. I dare you.
  - 22 Nov 17, 3:45pm -

Social Times

Scobleizer

• ANNOUNCEMENT and Why the Tesla Humanoid Robot Matters
  Irena Cronin and I are seeing huge shifts coming as autonomous vehicles get to the point where they are driving around San Francisco without humans. We recently started comparing notes and we are seeing the same trends.  So, today we are announcing…
  - 65 days ago, 29 Sep 22, 9:11am -
• The First Tour of Giant AI’s Robot Lab
  Visiting Giant AI is like getting a tour of a secret lab that shouldn’t exist run by an eccentric genius. The kind of which we remember from “Back to the Future.” Adrian Kaehler is that genius.  He built the computer vision system for the firs…
  - 28 Jun 22, 5:38am -
• When will augmented reality glasses be ready for consumers?
  Unfortunately it has taken a lot longer to get augmented reality glasses to consumers than I expected. A lot longer. I thought we would be wearing them all day by now. Heck, when I got Google Glass years ago I thought I never would take those off. Bo…
  - 31 May 22, 6:18pm -
• As blind honor Apple accessibility pioneer my son shows far more work is ahead
  It didn’t shock me that MojoVision (a Silicon Valley startup making augmented reality contact lenses) brought a big percentage of their team and had a table right in the middle of Sight Tech’s event honoring Mike Shebanek for his work on Apple’…
  - 28 Mar 22, 2:38pm -
• Future proof your playlists with these HUGE Dolby Atmos music lists
  UPDATE August 27, 2022. I’ve been focusing only on Apple lately. Amazon’s user experience really sucks for people trying to curate massive playlists and it’s just too difficult to keep all my lists synched. My Apple lists are here: https://musi…
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